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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas le Ms Cornally. Do I still have time for another question, Chair?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I am sure somebody else will come to it, but I just wanted to ask about what was said last week about people being blacklisted. I will listen in and I will hear if somebody comes to it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus go raibh maith agaibh as ucht teacht ós comhair an choiste. In respect of the industry development test, a post project compliance report must be submitted to Screen Ireland with a final version submitted within six months following production completion. Companies are also required to provide details of any Workplace Relations Commission...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Is Mr. Lee aware of any company that failed the test in terms of the application?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. Usually with these, it is quite common that there would be ones that fail in terms of receiving relief. That is fair if that is a question more so for the Department and we will put that in. The witnesses are probably also aware of claims made at this committee with regard to blacklisting workers. We have been hearing from workers that they feel that they have been blacklisted by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair. I am asking specifically about the blacklisting that some people have mentioned. When we are looking at this particular tax credit, that is something that has arisen in previous committees, so it is more specifically on that. Is Ms Finnegan saying that she does not feel she can comment on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: There were concerns on data in terms of blacklisting and on bogus self-employment. As people who work around the industry, if they have not been concerns that have been highlighted with Screen Ireland before - I would imagine that it is perhaps coming out of this committee - that is something that we would very strongly say needs to be looked at from what we have heard from witnesses. It is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I will leave it at that because I know there are certain members of the committee who have a particular interest in this and I would like to hear what they have to say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee; I very much appreciate it. I have quite a number of questions to get my head around certain aspects. My first question relates to the capacity in which Mr. Moloney is speaking in front of this committee today. The reason I ask is because the particular circular on guidelines for civil servants appearing before or providing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware of that. For my own understanding, is it correct that Mr. Moloney will be speaking on behalf of the Minister, rather than in a personal capacity, when he is in front of a committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Moloney. It is important for me to understand how these things work. Will he start by explaining the Carltona doctrine? I have to say that name in my head before I say it out loud. Will he say initially what the doctrine is and then whether there are limitations on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I understand that. Is Mr. Moloney aware of whether there have ever been any resignations because of any potential breach of the Carltona doctrine? I am not aware of any such breach but I wonder whether it is something that ever occurred.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I asked whether there has ever been an external review of the working of the Carltona doctrine. Has there ever been any kind of review or even any concerns expressed as to whether agency loss could arise from the use of the doctrine? I am interested to know whether it has had that kind of impact or has led to any encroachment on the control of policy function.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware the Public Service Management Act 1997 made changes to the relationship between Ministers and Secretaries General and sought to place the accountability of the latter on a statutory footing. It was designed as well to minimise agency loss. The idea is that the principal, that is, the Minister, has his or her policy administered by the agent, that is, the Secretary General....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Who does the reviewing of an objection? If it were felt such an objection was not met intentionally or whatever, does it then go to the Government rather than the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: What is the highest level of sanction Ministers can impose on their own undertaking, without going to the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: What would such a warning involve? If the highest level of sanction available to a Minister is a warning, against what is he or she warning? Would he or she just go to the Government at that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Not to diminish the process in any way but, in some sense, then, would it be a scolding rather than a warning insofar as the Minister is able to do anything about it? Is it correct that it would, in effect, be a decision for the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: It is a matter for the Government. I thank Mr. Moloney for that. Sometimes with these things there are so many different circulars etc. that it can be a bit confusing. As for the sanctions the Minister can do at that level, say the ones Mr. Moloney read out - barring the ones that cannot be given to a Secretary General - have they been done in the past? I am not asking him to comment on...