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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I understand the difficulty and the limitations but it gets you thinking and focused on the problems that are going to hit us in ten years' time and in 15 years' time. If you do not project the numbers out that far, you will not be conscious of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: That will mean €200 million for ten years, or whatever it is.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: So we do not have up-to-date figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: This could all help to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: It is another bit of soft power. The Taoiseach mentioned in his bullet points about engaging with the formulation of Government policy through Cabinet committees. As someone who was a county councillor for more than 20 years in Wicklow, could I ask that we look at ways of improving communication between councils and Departments? That is something I feel, just from my interactions here in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have just a few short questions. If they are as brief as possible in answering, I will be able to stay within the seven minutes. In his opening statement, Mr. Madouros suggested broadening the tax base. The Central Bank also referred to an excessively narrow tax base in its quarterly bulletin. How would the witnesses broaden the tax base?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Even though we have one of the highest VAT rates.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Mr. Conefrey has answered the question. The Central Bank suggested incentivising investment in new machinery, equipment and technology in the construction sector. Does it mean tax incentives or grants?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Would Mr. Madouros suggest targeted tax incentives for purchasers of housing? I am not saying they should be identical to those associated with the old section 23 but implying they could be along those lines. Maybe there could be targeted tax incentives for housing construction, for the buyers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Mention was made of the savings and investment union, which is a Europe-wide project. How might that work in Ireland? Has any progress been made?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I tend to agree with people who say that, after the financial crash, we slammed rather than closed the stable door after the horse had bolted. We might have overcompensated for errors of the past. Were any measures taken after the economic crash 16 years ago that need to be modified or at least considered?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: The Central Bank.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Does the Central Bank review all the measures that were taken, including simple things like the massive amount of box ticking and compliance people have to engage in when they take out a mortgage? Does it review the red tape, for want of a better description, measures that were implemented after the crash, which perhaps need to be looked at again?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Yes, I know. I am talking about reducing risk.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider providing a career pathway for healthcare assistant profession through a third level course, apprenticeship, social care degree or community care degree; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the expected waiting time for a hip replacement and for further information to be supplied to a patient (details supplied) and this Deputy. [37836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the appraisals will be completed, and decisions made, on properties that have expressed an interest in providing international protection accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (3 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans for further supports or funding to be made available for structural damage to farm buildings during Storm Éowyn, where an application was not made during the emergency TAMS 3 tranche, or whether there is another existing scheme to which farmers can apply for funding; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (3 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reform his Department’s capital expenditure programme by giving longer-term financial commitments, for example, ten to 15 years, to all arms of the State responsible for delivering infrastructure, such as Irish Rail, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Uisce Éireann, and so on, as this will allow them to plan for...