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- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I expect to publish them from mid to late July.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I will publish them as soon as I have them. They are papers that are developed over a period.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: The work has to be done. If we are into new politics where everything is on the table why should the committee not meet in August?
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I will see how early we can produce them. The papers are papers that are developed so that the relevant officials can consider them and advise the Minister who advises the Government. There is a process within the Department which indicates a particular date. The information available to me is that we will be in a position to publish them by mid to late July. I will see if that date can...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I cannot predict that in advance of the papers being fully developed. There are valid reasons for redaction. For example, some things are commercially sensitive and could be redacted. I will provide the Deputy with the fullest information I can in accordance with the legal advice I receive.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: In the previous Dáil, the timing of the draft SPU was moved forward to April. April was chosen because a lot of data come in March. In terms of the annual budgetary cycle, the 2017 budget will commence on 1 January 2017. We will see how things are going after the end of the first quarter, which is the end of March, and get the statistics for expenditure and revenue in the normal way....
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: We also have to discuss the SPU with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council in advance of finalising the figures and publication.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I am not arguing with the Deputy; I am just giving him information. Before we publish in April, it has to go to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. I cannot finalise the SPU until I get the opinion of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council on it. If it agrees it, we do not change the figures, but if there is dialogue, there has to be an opportunity to change. If we gave it to the committee at...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: A White Paper could be produced earlier in the year, perhaps in July. However, a White Paper will still have to be produced just before the budget, because the figures change as the year goes on. In order to provide accurate information before the budget, the practice has been to publish such a paper on the Friday night before the budget, with the Budget Statement envisaged to be delivered...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: I do not have an objection in principle. If the Deputy thinks that can be done and the committee thinks it is a good idea, it can be included in the recommendations. We are not wedded to the idea that it will be we who organise it. We really do not mind what way it is done.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy asked a lot of questions, but they all relate to the same area. It is not for the Government or Ministers to tell parliamentary committees how they should conduct their business.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: It is a matter for individual committees to decide, within their areas of responsibility, how they will manage their business, the discussions they will have and who they will call before them. I do not have a view because I should not have a view. It is a matter for the committees and I do not want to influence their work in any way. Parliamentary work should be a matter for Parliament. ...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: There is absolute scrutiny at the moment. The finance committee calls in the Central Bank, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, the Department and the Revenue Commissioners and there is full scrutiny at various times of the year, not only when the committee is scrutinising the Estimate for the Department of Finance but on a global basis. The committee calls other State agencies in as well,...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: The officials need time to put it together as well.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: There are deadlines that cannot be met simply because it is a very complex document. An awful lot of work goes into it.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: To take the example Deputy Donnelly gave of the AIB preference shares, EUROSTAT made a decision totally unexpectedly. I still do not know why. It is one of the problems with European institutions that they do not have to explain themselves. We were not notified until around 20 April and we were fortunate to be able to get the change into the SPU at all. If it had been left for another...
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: While I do not have a date in this regard, there is plenty of time for the Deputy to make a submission to the Department if he wishes to have his views taken into account.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: In previous years, we did the switch analysis anyway and I believe we finalise it around the time of the Finance Bill.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: Yes.
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Michael Noonan: We did publish them in full.