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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (17 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in respect of an application by a person (details supplied) for family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21859/18]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: To follow up on the point made by the Minister of State, it is very important that consideration is given, particularly to small businesses in terms of the impact of a change of this nature on them. This is a crucial consideration as far as I am concerned. There is a time factor in that businesses need to gear up for any type of change. There is also an impact. Before being elected to the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have to come back in regarding the point of consultation. I have great respect for Deputy Chambers but I disagree totally with the point he made. There are a few aspects that are very important. The first is that we should have consultation on any change. The reason is very simple. This country is littered with examples where we have passed legislation without properly thinking through...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Heydon and Cowen. We will be meeting Mr. Seamus Coffey, an economist from University College Cork regarding budget 2019 and the sustainability of corporation tax. Before we do so, I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. Interference from mobile phones affects sound quality. I welcome Mr. Seamus Coffey from University College Cork. I thank him for making himself available to meet with the committee today. The committee is carrying out the ex antescrutiny of budget 2019 and Mr. Coffey has carried out a review of corporation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Coffey for that very interesting presentation and call Deputy McGrath.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy McGrath can come back in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: We can come back to that. Deputy Lisa Chambers is next up and then we will hear from Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: If the other members agree to allow in Deputy Ryan for a quick question, that is fine.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Doherty, please.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Thank you.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy, I would like the witness to have the opportunity the answer the questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry, but the Deputy must conclude.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Imagine if there were two Richard Boyd Barretts.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am going to ask a few questions if the Deputy does not mind. Following up on that last point, we should certainly be prudent in how we project future rises. We should be prudent in how we make expenditure commitment. I was in business for 20 years before my election to this House. Everybody knows that companies make profits in some years and do not in others. We cannot rely on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Is Dr. Coffey saying that while those three strands that he mentioned come together, that €2 billion or so of it was effectively and realistically just a repositioning of taxation into Ireland by the OECD?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The real question on vulnerability is - and this, the wind at the back thing, is probably referred to often - if there is a second round of changes in eight or ten years time, until we would see how that would play out would we have exactly the same scale of vulnerability for us or possibly against us? We would not know until we saw the outcome.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am afraid I must finish the meeting as we have another committee - of which I am a part - coming into this room in 15 minutes time. We are going to have to draw this to a conclusion. Can Deputy Boyd Barrett fit in a question in under a minute?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has 30 seconds.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I must limit the time available to Dr. Coffey as well.