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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the transition year programme to include practical life skills as part of the compulsory requirement across all schools: personal legal rights, household management, personal finance, taxation and social welfare and the driver theory test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40202/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: We have a great secondary education system. It is one of the cornerstones of our success as a nation. However, given it is largely academically-based, we need to look at ways of bringing life skills to our children that will better prepare them for the real world. In particular, I refer to the transition year programme. This is a great programme which offers students an opportunity to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is long-term financial planning for capital infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40182/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I have met people working for State bodies involved in asset procurement for long-term infrastructure projects. One of the points they constantly raise is the lack of long-term financial planning and commitments on projects that take a long time to deliver, for example, ten years. They say that more certainty is needed and this would help improve the efficiency of delivering the projects...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I want to emphasise how spending on infrastructure is an investment, in that it gives a return. For example, I recently attended the opening of the new wastewater treatment plant in Arklow, County Wicklow, which cost €140 million and came in on budget. Much of that €140 million comes back to the State immediately through taxes. This plant has a capacity of 24,000 population...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Regarding delivery, a new infrastructure division group has recently been established. For the current national development plan, a delivery board was set up in 2018. The national development plan envisages five or four - it is not clear - additional outside experts being added. It only meets every two to three months, which seems way too seldom. I wonder how successful it has been....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the stage at which the new infrastructure taskforce is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40181/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: The birth rate in Ireland fell from 75,000 in 2010 to 55,000 in 2023. We now have the lowest birth rate ever. This low birth rate has clear negative impacts on sustaining our economy and public services. It will lead to a lower tax intake and inevitable cuts to our welfare state. Will the Government look at strategies to help increase the birth rate? This could be done by financially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: On page 12 near the end are the figures for the different percentages, the export values and their relevant weightings. Has the institute done a calculation on the employment numbers that would be affected in the different areas? The figures here show the values of exports and percentages but they do not include employment numbers in, for example, the food and drink sectors and what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: But not the employment numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: The world is too complex.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Globalisation has made it too complex to reach conclusions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Are the tariffs effectively setting back globalisation? There has been massive globalisation in the last 20 years. Are tariffs just pulling that back, with all the implications of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Has Dr. McDonnell any thoughts on spreading the tax base? I asked this of our previous guests, who suggested VAT and possibly USC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Perhaps a reduction in the number of exemptions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: In my last 30 seconds, will Dr. McDonnell summarise NERI's new economic model? Is it written anywhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I thank Dr. McDonnell. I am sorry for hitting him with so much in ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I thank Dr. McDonnell for the informative contributions. I have a number of questions so there will be a bit of back and forth. I had seven or eight questions but, thankfully, Dr. McDonnell has answered three of them already. I come from an accounting background and have great respect and love for economics. I will focus on specifics. Dr. McDonnell said that employment and growth will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Have studies been done on specific corporation tax reductions as a result of tariffs?