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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but that is the point I am making. Six thousand net jobs - or 6,500, according to the figures we have - were created in the first six months of this year. If we are to believe what happened last year, 60,000 jobs were created in a year, yet only 6,500 were created in the first six months of this year. Is it the case that the 60,000 did not exist and the figure was a result of the way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask one more question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is this the first time this exercise of looking at the accounts was undertaken or was it done in previous years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. That is why it would not have been picked up in previous years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Referring to our trading partners - obviously two of them are healthy in terms of growth - what would be the impact of percentage decreases in the growth estimation of the UK or the US? Has that been calculated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: You mention the potential of stagnant or low inflation and the impact that could have on Ireland's debt burden. Is upward inflation expected next year? Figures of 0.5% and 1.0% mentioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is it 1% or 0.1%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: What are the factors that will drive that? Is it lack of an adjustment in domestic demand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: On retail sales, what sectors are improving? Where is the figure of 3.6% in the last month, year on year, coming from? I am talking about sectors apart from motor trades.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: There was reference to exports in the first half of the year. There has been an increase. In terms of that being maintained until the end of the year, will the type of figures seen in the first half of the year be carried through? Will there be a further increase or a flattening out at the current level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is that a conservative and cautious approach? Is there a greater weight on the negative potential risks than on the positives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to tease that issue out given the time and it could have such an impact. However, in relation to employment growth, and looking at the year on year figures - the graph looks really healthy and it is great to see the live register numbers coming down - one of the concerns is this mythical 60,000 jobs created last year. I know there was revision of the calculations based on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: When we are talking about the figures for GNP and nominal GDP, what would the figures look like if it were not for the revision that took place in EU rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I was going to ask about the pharma cliff, but the issue has been touched on. This is a major issue, unpredictability of which we have discussed. How confident are the delegates that they have now got it right in relation to that sector of the economy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Can Mr. Enright clarify, in relation to the last two slides, whether we are looking at year-on-year or quarter-on-quarter changes?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the scheduled reductions in her Department, or in agencies under her aegis, spending in 2015 and the areas of spending these reductions scheduled to take place to show the amount of reductions by theme. [38019/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Compensation Fund (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the balance of the Insurance Compensation Fund. [37798/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of extra revenue that will be raised in 2015 by measures already announced or legislated for; and the details of these measures. [38035/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the scheduled reductions in his Department's, or in agencies under his aegis, spending in 2015; and the areas of spending these reductions are scheduled to take place to show the amount of reductions by theme. [38039/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (7 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the scheduled reductions in his Department, or in agencies under his aegis, spending in 2015 and the areas of spending these reductions scheduled to take place to show the amount of reductions by theme. [38023/14]