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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: My next question was going to be who would do it. We are dealing with a legacy, as it were. It is a legacy of reams and reams of work that has built up over decades of different decisions. We would almost have to track back all the different decisions. Certainly, when we were looking at tax expenditures, it seemed like often the Department just did not know that was happening, or it had...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Has ICTU a view on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What does that mean?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can I ask Mr Gibbons to repeat for the committee again his reference to a domestic engagement?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can I infer that this was an attempt to engage with indigenous business to see how corporation tax changes agreed at a global scale would affect them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The committee may be able to find that out for Congress.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Congress is not involved.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The concern that is always reflected back when someone says that it needs to be an elongated process, better signposted and more collaborative, is that if it is signposted things too early, it stagnates. People wait for the beneficial rate. Is that fair comment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: On recommendation 9.6, which is a long one relating to research and development tax credits, the simple question is whether the witnesses believe there is a good sense of what is happening with research and development tax credits now? Is there sufficient budgetary oversight of those issues? Do our guests, as two groups who work in this area, feel that they understand what is happening and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, but it is useful to put them on the record.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: To follow that up, and I do not want to paraphrase Professor Coffey, but would it be fair to say that direct funding might be more efficient for SMEs because, for whatever reason, be it bureaucracy or the labyrinthine nature of some of these tax reliefs, the FDI companies find it easier to access them. I believe Professor Coffey was saying in that session that, in real terms, this relief is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I know we are all blue in the face talking about indexation and Dr. McDonnell knows this committee is very much in favour of indexation. He talked a little bit about benchmarking. Can indexation and benchmarking occupy the same space? I wish to be clear in my own mind. Can the Department do it? What differentiation is being made between them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome our guests and will start by thanking them all for their very hard work, particularly during Covid. I know that during these sessions there is often a lot of robust questioning, which is our job, but I wanted to start by saying that the work that Dublin Fire Brigade and the NAS do is incredibly appreciated by people like me. Our guests are at the coalface in terms of dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The first experience for a lot of people calling an ambulance will be actually ringing the ambulance and that is what I want to talk about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Most of us will know this already but for clarity, that area is bordered by Monkstown on one side and Balbriggan on the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Who is the provider for that phone service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Who is the phone service provider for the NAS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: British Telecom will direct a call to the Dublin Fire Brigade or the NAS. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: That is automatic, based on the area code.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to something in the Dublin Fire Brigade's opening statement. Mr. Keeley said that the fire brigade requested resources from the NAS on 63,000 occasions and in 76% of these cases, the NAS was unable to provide a service. I want to unpick that because it is obviously a very high number. When the call comes in to Dublin Fire Brigade from somebody who is in the middle of...