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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to ensure that public bodies do not use FOI refusals as a means to delay the release of information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22176/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chair for allowing me in because I am not a permanent member of the committee but I have a really strong interest in this subject since my time on the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. I want to make a couple of points about this. First, on accreditation standards across the island, can we have assurance that any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What was critical in the assessment of the original assessment? It is important we get that right from the beginning. I will leave it there. I have made my other point about the capacity of the higher education institutes to do that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As a vote has been called in the Dáil, we will suspend proceedings until it is completed. We will then resume in public session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Professor Niamh Moloney, chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, Mr. Philip Kermode, Dr. Barra Roantree and Ms Anne Vaughan, who are members of the commission, and Dr. Colm O’Reardon, secretary to the commission, and his colleagues from the secretariat, Ms Sinead Ryan, Mr. Colin O’Connor and Mr. Gary Hynds. Before we begin I will explain some limitations to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Gabhaim buíochas le Professor Moloney. I will now call members in the usual sequence, namely,Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, Green Party, Labour and the Rural Independent Group. They will have ten minutes each. As no one from Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael is present, I call Deputy Doherty of Sinn Féin.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Another vote has been called in the Dáil so we will have to suspend again. We will continue with Deputy Nash on our return.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are back in public session and will continue with Deputy Nash.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Professor Moloney. I call Deputy Aindrias Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will start with social insurance. The commission recommended that the PRSI rate paid on self-employed income should be aligned with the higher rate of employer's PRSI, which is 11.05%. Was that unanimous among commission members?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could Professor Moloney provide the commission's assessment of the current level of employer's PRSI in a wider European context and how it should change in the years ahead?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is considering the constitutional future, including economics, taxation and welfare. Three weeks ago, Dr. Tom Boland and Dr. Ciara Fitzpatrick appeared before that committee. They made the point that we never really sat down and looked at the values that underpinned our tax and welfare system and suggested that there is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. Roantree is the right person, so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Therefore, it could form the basis of a whole other piece of work that really needs to be done from an all-island perspective. One of the main questions people have concerns what our tax and welfare systems will look like. This might be a job for everyone to do in the future. My next question, on social welfare rates, is related more to the upcoming budget than the commission's specific...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Gaps in the data were mentioned. What data were missing? Where should they come from? Who needs to gather them right now for us to make calculations in the future?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is the Department of Finance that should be tasked with that. Have there been any moves made on it since the commission identified that within its report?