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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Macey for his very interesting contribution. I acknowledge that Deputy Lahart had to go. He left his apologies because he was very keen to be here. He has actually given me his questions as well, so Mr. Macey will face two sets of questions. I am new to the committee so I am not sure how long we get for this. Deputy Lahart was making an interesting point about the amount of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Now Deputy Lahart is back.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, Mr. Macey will agree that we absolutely have to get the design of this tax right.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: If we do not do that, we will have all kinds of externalities and unintended consequences. I would like him to elaborate on the class dynamic around this, that is, the people who are most impacted, what substitutes they have and so on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There is an enormous volume of literature on this. One of the practical challenges is that it is unclear what set of foods should be taxed. There is no specific subset of foods that cause obesity, and the risk of taxing a small number of foods that cause obesity is that the consumer may switch to energy-dense items that are untaxed, so there is a complexity around all that as to what foods...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There obviously has to be a combination of subsidies with the taxes. We must also bear in mind, and Mr. Macey's mention of baked beans reminded me of this, the cost of food and the huge food price inflation at the moment. In the context of all that, how do we put a further tax on top of such prices?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: What responsibility do manufacturers have around the amount of sugar they put into products?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Should they have? Is there any relevant international practice?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am just watching the clock. On the asymmetrical information that is there for the consumer and the combination of the subsidies for say, exercise or other activities, is there international research showing the combination of those with the tax is most effective?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Macey is saying we will end up with better outcomes if we have a combination of those things.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total investment that each NUT region will receive under the ERDF programme in both EU and Exchequer co-funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18501/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for designating the Southern Regional Assembly as the managing authority for the ERDF funding allocated for the eastern and midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18502/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the year each primary care centre was approved and construction completed, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18499/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Claremorris primary care centre is currently without a GP operating on site; the steps he is taking to address the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18500/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Watt, is it not true that the decision to allocate up to €20 million from the Health Research Board was not based on any real proposal or costings? The secondment did not meet the criteria or adhere to it being time limited, ranging from six months to five years. Instead, it could have potentially, as the Secretary General said himself, have extended to ten years. This means we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Circular 27/2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: At the second point where it says, "All secondment advertisements."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and continues by stating the "Department of Public Expenditure and Reform."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: So Mr. Watt is saying that this did not need to be cleared. Is that his understanding of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It did not need to be cleared by what was then the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.