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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the capacity constraints in particular, we have had several discussions around the National Training Fund because obviously, we are coming up to having €1.5 billion in the National Training Fund. How will that be treated under the new fiscal rules? There seems to be a real confusion at the moment from the Government about if and how it can mobilise that fund. That was never...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what we are trying to get at. I am trying to get at how the Government operates. The fund is currently invested in Exchequer notes at commercial rates. The Exchequer notes are liabilities of the Irish State similar to treasury bills, or T-bills. If we put money into, say, the National Reserve Fund or the National Training Fund, as it is currently stored, that would increase the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. How far does the proposed fund diverge from the Norwegian fund model or is it precisely the same?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is because they handled their oil and gas properly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, Mr. Barnes is right. Norway has the experience and we can learn from it how its model or strategy has evolved over two decades. I attended the conference in question. We have asked the former Governor of the Central Bank to attend a meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to tease out some of those issues because we can learn from doing so. I disagree with what Mr. Barnes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and that type of investment will ensure growth in the future in some of these towns. We heard that the advice given on the EU fiscal rules was unsound. I ask Mr. Barnes to elaborate on the aspects of the rules that were unsound. What does IFAC mean by unsound?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What role does the council play in identifying unsound rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can they be requested? It is important, in the interest of transparency, openness and having that type of relationship, that the simulations and information it has are made available to member states.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Who knows?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How far into the future are the trajectories done? Is it to 2050?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Barnes for his presentation. The first thing I want to ask is around the old rules and the new rules. Does Mr. Barnes think there is sufficient room for both of them, or sufficient flexibility for us to be able to do what we need to do to drive growth and do the necessary transformational work to address regional inequality and the climate change challenges we have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the first of the open questions regarding the simulations of the trajectories, they have still to be published yet the simulations have obviously been done.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the claims on, and settlements made by, the State Claims Agency in each year since 2011, broken down by category; the amount and percentage of total cost of settlements spent on legal fees, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to provide public transport links between Westport and Louisburgh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the make-up of the Coastal Unit Advisory Group, including the number of volunteers on the panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the debt servicing costs in each year since 2006, in tabular form; and projections of debt servicing costs into the future. [21150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure mortgage holders, where their mortgage loan is secured against a property affected by defective concrete blocks, are treated fairly and transparently by lenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21563/23]