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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Joint Committee (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Lisa Chambers. A pilot approach to gender budgeting has been adopted in the Revised Estimates for public services 2018, which were published in December. Today, the committee will meet officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to consider the pilot programme as it relates to the Revised Estimates. Before we do, we will briefly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Joint Committee (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: No. Today we will primarily discuss gender budgeting, but we can also discuss a small section of the Revised Estimates.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Joint Committee (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: The officials will be present today. That is my understanding. If that is okay, we will go into private session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: As always, I remind members and delegates to, please, turn off their mobile phones or, at least, to switch them to airplane mode. Interference caused by mobile phones affects the sound quality of the transmission of the proceedings of the meeting. I welcome Mr. William Beausang, assistant secretary at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, who is accompanied by Ms Sarah...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Ms Swaine for her presentation. Deputy Calleary is first.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will return to this later. I want to allow my colleagues in in the order they indicated.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have a couple of points of my own. The way I look at it, there are a couple of things involved. On ownership of the whole thing, there were some initial comments made about departmental ownership. I very much welcome the decision of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, on this and his implementation of the pilot programme. I would strongly suggest that the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: If there are no further questions I would like to thank the witnesses for attending here today. We appreciate the work being carried out. It has been a very interesting and worthwhile exchange. As there is no further business I propose to conclude our meeting. The committee stands adjourned until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 February, when we will be hearing from the National Women's Council of...

Other Questions: Sports Facilities Provision (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is okay. Things are much more civilised on this question. I thank the Minister for the information in that reply. There is no question but it is a tremendous campus. The investment which has recently gone into it will be transformative. What the Minister outlined will pay great dividends for us, especially at Olympic level in the sports which will be facilitated. I thank the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Ryan's party bankrupted the country in that 20 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: A very short memory.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have Question No. 6.

Other Questions: Sports Facilities Provision (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the ongoing development of the national sports campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7517/18]

Other Questions: Sports Facilities Provision (15 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Could the Minister outline the ongoing developments on the national sports campus, allowing for the Government's excellent record in investing in sport, particularly with the recent sports capital grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with European Ombudsman (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Some of my points have been raised already, so I will not go over them again. I would like to tease one point out further. There is a fundamental difference between a sovereign state and a national parliament legislating in a particular way. The European Union, which is a confederation of national states, is engaging in the legislative process that it has put together. I welcome a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will be brief as well, Chair. I express my sympathies to the Fox family and the members of An Garda Síochána on the death of Detective Superintendent Colm Fox. There is a limited amount I am going to go into here because a lot has been gone through, in some very good detail, by my colleagues. Some of what I have to say are just observations, having listened to the debate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Finn did a very good job of blaming an IT system earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Somebody made a decision and I do not believe it was an IT system. Somebody in management made a decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I know but somebody a decision and since it was not the IT system, I wonder who made the decision to exclude in that respect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will ask Dr. Singh that question but I am asking Mr. Finn does he know who made that decision?