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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not referring to the amount of consolidation. I am talking about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will tease that out a little bit in another direction. Instead of having a set amount less of consolidation, if we had a set amount of additional investment, would there be the same multipliers? Mr. McCarthy spoke of 0.4% or 0.5% as a multiplier. Is the Department not using 0.6% as a multiplier? What would be the figure then? Mr. McCarthy provided hypothetical figures in the last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not talking about an increase in investment but an injection, or stimulus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Let us tease that out in terms of a €1 billion investment in the construction industry. It could be for primary health care centres, schools moving from prefabs, whatever works might be construction based and labour intensive. Has any modelling been done on that within the Department?.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: What are we looking at - is it 0.8%, 0.9% or 1%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I refer again to the modelling. The Department has to do this without knowing what the Government will announce on budget day and must take it from a static policy position that will not be changed by policy. The Government has indicated, for example, the use of the NPPR as an investment tool. Has the Department modelled the use of the €6.4 billion in the discretionary portfolio as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Let us go to forecasting. I appreciate the scrutiny work the Department is doing where forecasters have to second guess how the economy will be the following year. It can be disappointing, however, and must be so. Two years ago we, namely, the Government, the Department or the State, forecasted a 3% growth rate for this year. Today, with the consensus arising from the new information of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am looking back. We are nearly at the end of the year. If Mr. McCarthy can clarify this I will finish. The best estimate from Mr. McCarthy's section of the Department and the other section was what we were going to hit 7.4% in terms of percentage of GDP deficit. Today, however, Mr. McCarthy informs us that GDP growth, based on 1.3% growth, will more than likely be zero. Based on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is that the target of 7.5%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the delegates for the presentation, despite the challenges in not having adequate time. It was very interesting and informative. As many issues have been discussed by previous speakers, I will focus on some that have not been mentioned. I understand the delegates cannot delve into budgetary matters or the political world, but it is being reported today that the Minister, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I told you so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is most unsatisfactory that we have the presentation before us only now. We have a bad taste on our mouths from the bankers being before us, trying to bamboozle us with figures and not giving us a chance to see the information beforehand. It is important to look forward. Hopefully in future years we will receive this information at the same time as IFAC. Is there a reason we could not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is definitely a compliment. Can we confirm that such a presentation can be provided to us at an earlier opportunity for future budgets and at the same time as IFAC receives it, or does the Department have a problem with doing that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Contribution Fee (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to cap the student contribution fee. [42200/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an assessment of the effects on Traveller children of the withdrawal of all major educational Traveller-specific supports; if he will consider reinstating State affirmative action such as upskilling and employing Travellers to be employed by his Department as community education workers and within schools and the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeilge (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an aontaíonn sé gur chóir don Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna soláthair a dhéanamh den tacaíocht chuí atá ag teastáil do scoileanna Gaeltachta le leanúint ar aghaidh, lena chinntiú go mbeidh oideachas lán-Ghaeilge ar ardchaighdeán ar fáil do dhaltaí scoile Gaeltachta,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarification on the future of the Killybegs School of Tourism; if his attention has been drawn to the contents of the financial plan provided by LYIT to the Higher Education Authority; if he has considered the options presented under the plan regarding the Killybegs School of Tourism; his plans to make moneys available in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobBridge Scheme Eligibility (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any discretion for a graduate (details supplied) in County Donegal who has applied for five internships, has been advised that there is a position available for them, but is not eligible to participate due to the fact that they do not have the required number of days on unemployment benefit; his views on whether this graduate would be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobBridge Scheme Eligibility (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in County Donegal who have participated in or are currently participating in the national JobBridge scheme per year since the scheme was introduced; the number of participants in County Donegal who participated or are currently participating on their JobBridge scheme with a school, hospital, Government, State or public body...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licences Applications (8 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 373. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problems experienced by Donegal County Council in obtaining a foreshore licence for Burtonport; the reason for the delay in granting the foreshore licence; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay has resulted in the loss of funding for the establishment of a...