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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry Deputy Burton, but no. There is a second round.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy can come back in on other points on housing and so on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: There will be a second round for anyone who wishes to speak. I have two indications so far, so Deputy Heydon is not last. He need not worry.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: Everybody has had an opportunity to ask some questions at this stage. At least one Deputy has indicated a desire to ask another question. Before I go into a second round, I will ask the Minister a number of questions. The Minister touched on the European view on this matter. It is very early stages. I would have thought our European partners' view would be that budgetary issues are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That works in the process of the fund being a rainy day fund to tackle an event like a natural disaster. That is my understanding of where that exemption sits. If we were looking more at a countercyclical version of it to deal with a recessionary situation and the drawdown in that, is there the same scope within the rules to look at that in terms of the borrowing expenditure limits under...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. I have had an indication from Deputy Lahart to the effect that he wants to come back in. He will be followed by Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is a specific and slightly different area. Will the Minister come back to us with a note on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy can ask the Minister a question. I cannot stop him from asking the Minister a question. We have areas set out for discussion at this meeting, although, to be fair, we are not just having open questions and answers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Lahart asked me before he left, but if Deputy Jonathan O'Brien has a question directly relating to this, he can go ahead with it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy O'Brien and I call on Deputy Lahart. I do not know what the Deputy wishes to raise with the Minister but to be fair to both of them I advise him that we have a structure for what we are discussing here today. If a question cannot be answered today I am sure the Minister will come back to the Deputy at some point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: It includes PPPs and issues relating to the health Estimates area.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am a constituency colleague of Deputy Lahart and as much as that information is relevant and important perhaps the Minister cannot comment on specific projects but he can speak about the situation in the general context of the budget situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is all the questions. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. We very much appreciate the opportunity for an exchange of views. We will follow up with him in writing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: We will hopefully be able to establish something-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: -----that will enable us to communicate in writing but there are many views, as the Minister heard clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2016: Discussion (24 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: My apologies to the committee. I am chairing the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and we ran late today.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: On a point of order, it is highly inappropriate for a Deputy at a committee to use facetious and smart comments-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: -----when referring to a Government Minister, especially as the Deputy could be the recipient of a number of very smart comments in regard to himself, which people do not do.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I ask that the Deputy would just make his contribution in a more respectful manner as his approach has been inappropriate.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: There is some confusion on my part on the Fianna Fáil position. I cannot understand why it could be so opposed to the establishment of such a committee while pointing out at the same time that it has no problem if it is established by the group itself. It seems to me that there is a contradiction. If there is no reason to have the committee, why is it fine if, after the appointments...