Results 341-360 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Does Deputy Conway-Walsh wish to come back in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: What money do we have where? Is the Deputy referring to windfall taxes?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Does the Deputy not advocate saving that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Can I interrupt the Deputy?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Most witnesses who have come before this committee, including the two today, have stated quite stringently the need for us to have learned from the use of transitionary funds in the past and that, under no circumstances, should windfall revenue from corporation tax be used as current expenditure. Some can be for capital expenditure but as provided for in a fund that is invested and can...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Just to draw that line.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: I ask Professor McQuinn, when answering that, to elaborate on the point he made about infrastructural bottlenecks. We were talking to the Central Bank earlier and I would have identified those bottlenecks as being specifically related to planning. There is a planning and development (amendment) Bill to be published in the coming weeks and to go through the Houses in the coming months. It...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: As is the case here. I was a councillor for 20 years. It is a two-year programme with extensive consultation, taking cognisance of different regulations and guidelines on density, design and infrastructural capacity, all of which are highly appropriate and needed, and having regard to the failings of the planning system prior to that. However, in seeking to address that we may have gone...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Exactly. That is what I am saying. That is the way it should be.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: Is Deputy Patricia Ryan still online? I cannot see her on the screen.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)
Barry Cowen: That concludes our session. I thank the Professor McQuinn and Dr. Keane for making themselves available and for their presentation and the comprehensive responses to the various questions put by members. I look forward to meeting them again in the future.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (12 Jul 2023)
Barry Cowen: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (12 Jul 2023)
Barry Cowen: I move: That leave be given to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000; to provide An Bord Pleanála with powers, functions and duties in relation to pending applications and appeals of long duration; and to provide for related matters. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to introduce this Private Members’ Bill, which will...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jul 2023)
Barry Cowen: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34507/23]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2023)
Barry Cowen: No apologies have been received. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters and issues which arose when we met on Teams yesterday. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Barry Cowen: I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, and their officials. I must explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses regarding references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. Witnesses are protected by absolute...