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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Walsh. I propose that we discuss the local property tax revaluation first. When that item is concluded we will move on to commercial stamp duty. Is that agreed? Agreed. Following the discussion, there might be requests for more specific information in advance of our next meeting with the officials of the Department of Finance in early January. I will now call on members in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: There is agreement on that. I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I call Deputy Burton.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: No other member is offering at this point, so I am going to draw our consideration of the local property tax to a conclusion. I propose that we move onto commercial stamp duty. Is anybody offering on that area?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: That is an unfair question to land on anybody at this point. Mr. Walsh does not have necessarily have to comment on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I have no doubt that there will be plenty of follow-up on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: Departmental officials will appear before the committee on 16 January 2018. I forgot to ask one question about the local property tax before we concluded our discussion on it. With regard to the movement of the local authority mean up or down, Revenue indicated earlier this year that there could be an increase because 11 local authorities had raised the rates. How does that compare to the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: 412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the post offices which closed in County Clare in each of the years 2002 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52843/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming in to the committee. They come in to us very regularly. Before I start today I wish to raise one point. I appreciate that other colleagues and the deputy commissioner have already mentioned it but, especially on the day that is in it, I believe it is worth putting it on record. Listening to news reports on what it really is like to serve in An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I would like the witnesses to come back on the particular matter of supervision, as well as the buy-in to how much real change is taking place.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (7 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: 231. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount received by each club and group under the local youth club equipment scheme 2017 by ETB in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52560/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy is testifying rather than questioning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: In defence of my colleague, the Chairman did make an unfair reference to someone who makes every effort -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Secretary General and her officials for coming. I do not believe I will have a productive time in asking questions because I will go over some ground that has been covered before and I am not doing so because I like to hear the sound of my own voice. I am doing so because there is complete inconsistency in the way the officials have answered questions. Perhaps that is because I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: The Department did not comply fully in sending documentation until the events of the past few weeks and the discovery of the additional emails which the Secretary General says she did not know of or did not have, but obviously the Department did have them as they were available within it. The Secretary General did not look for them either because she did not think it was worth her while to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: To outsiders looking in from the outside, that seems to be very difficult to believe. The Secretary General does two things and does them very well. She advocates that the Department is a huge organisation comprising thousands and thousands of staff, but I am absolutely sure thousands and thousands of staff do not receive emails concerning high-level decisions, interaction between Ministers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: Why then would the Secretary General decide not to look at everything concerning the people involved? I ask because she subsequently decided following a further trawl, to which I will get, that took just a few days that she could uncover additional relevant information. On the original email, while not reprimanding her for not sending it, she used the expression that the Charleton tribunal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: The words the Secretary General used were that it would be "of assistance" to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: That information has been provided and the Secretary General deemed it to be relevant. Why did she not seek it the first time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I cannot understand the following. The Secretary General has said one cannot include a name in a Google search or anything like it and come up with all of the tens of thousands of documents available. The Department engaged in a process, a further trawl that had been requested by the Taoiseach, which produced additional information. The further trawl was completed within a number of days....