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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Is Deputy O'Brien happy with that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. We appreciate the input from them and the opportunity to interact with them as part of our work. I propose that we go into private session to allow a changeover in witnesses.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I welcome Ms Olivia Buckley, communications director, and Ms Anne Gunnell, senior tax policy manager from the Irish Tax Institute. As they will know, having listened to the previous guests, the committee is engaged in its pre-budget scrutiny process. We look forward to availing of this opportunity to discuss the matter with the delegation. I wish to advise that by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and for their attendance. It has been a very long day for the committee and all members have received a copy of the witnesses' opening statement, which we appreciate. Due to business being conducted in the Dáil, we are currently somewhat short of members. I call Deputy O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I also have a question for the witnesses, who can then reply to both me and Deputy O'Brien. I ask Ms Gunnell to further tease out the criticisms she highlighted in regard to the KEEP in terms of why she thinks it is not working and what changes are needed to deliver a more satisfactory programme.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. We have had three different groups and they have all given us guidance. Ms Buckley echoed a point made by somebody from IFAC earlier, which was that the original idea of bringing multinationals into Ireland was to create an overspill and grow indigenous companies. We have been successful in the international sector but our indigenous SME...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I endorse my colleagues' points about the CAP. I would like to highlight a couple of aspects of this issue. It is absolutely vital for member states to realise that funding will have to be increased. The Irish Government has been clear on this issue and has led on it. If we want to pursue the 80:20 proposal, the agreement of all member states will be needed. It is really a question of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I would like to come back in on one matter, on which I did not touch in my earlier contribution, in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy. My major reservation - I disagree with Deputy Éamon Ó Cúiv, for whom I have great respect - is the notion that the European Commission is pushing allowing this to devolve to member states and increasing flexibility, as outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport and Recreational Development (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the publication of the new national sports policy. [25269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the opening of the 2018 sports capital programme. [25268/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maria Bailey, Pearse Doherty and Martin Heydon. The committee is due to meet officials from the European Commission to consider the country-specific recommendations, CSRs, for Ireland and the Commission's assessment of the stability programme update. The CSRs were published last week as part of the EU's annual budgetary cycle for the co-ordination...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference caused by them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. On behalf of the committee, I welcome members of the European Commission to our meeting: Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay and Ms Polona Gregorin from the Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs, who are accompanied by Mr. Gerry...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay. I will call on a number of Deputies, who should keep their contributions to five minutes each. Replies should be kept to approximately the same time. That should allow everyone who has indicated thus far to be accommodated in the time available. The first to indicate was Deputy Chambers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has 30 seconds to put his third question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy must be brief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is important to note that one of our sister committees is examining this issue in some detail.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am going to stop the Deputy there. There will be time for him to comment further. I want to keep it fair and let everybody back in again.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: This is something the committee has done a great deal of work on. It is at the heart of that answer. We can understand the perspective of the Commission and, depending on their perspective on a rainy day fund, people might agree with the general thrust of what Mr. Martínez Mongay is saying. The question, however, is how EUROSTAT views it because if it takes one particular view of it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As Chairman, I did not take that meaning at all out of what was said here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay very much. This has been a very interesting exchange of views. Much information has been covered and there have been a lot of questions. I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay for coming before the committee. We have certainly found it interesting. I also thank all of my colleagues who have contributed.