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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: If we cut a load of income tax, that will work against those effects.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. I will return to the IBEC representatives. I was very interested in their point on taking advantage of favourable EU conditions around greening certain VAT situations. Will they elaborate a little on that? Where is Ireland in EU terms in respect of the scale of taking advantage of those issues? Are there particular sectors where we are not in the middle of the pack, as our Minister...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is not always new technology. Sometimes, it is reusable or repairable technologies. Do those kind of issues come in under that kind of VAT?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is a very interesting point because it was such a battle to get reusable menstrual products on the same VAT rate as the throwaway products. It is such a green measure but it was such a battle to do that. It is to be hoped that a Department would have somebody whose role is to constantly audit that list.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I will stick with IBEC and ask about access to credit at present. As has been said, and I completely agree, there will have to be Government movement and action, not just in making loans but in something more fundamental than that. In terms of outside Government, credit unions have recently attempted to make themselves more available to SMEs. What is IBEC's estimation of access to credit?...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Ireland is unusual in that regard.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Finally, if I can go back to the PhD, something strikes me. This may be a somewhat theoretical question but we are living in a very strange time where we are testing the limits of elasticity of demand in real time on things like carbon taxes because the price of everything has risen so dramatically. It is an inelasticity that people can only change so fast and so far. What is that telling...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Are there any supplementary questions? Does Deputy Durkan?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We have concluded the session. I thank our guests for coming in this evening. The meeting has been at a bit of a breakneck speed because we have had four different bodies in today but the change to the budgetary cycle requires it. I do apologise. I am sure we will have both groups back before the committee again. I thank members for sitting during recess, which I really appreciate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As Mr. Walsh said, An Bord Pleanála’s operations are set out in legislation. I am under the impression that when one deviates from what is set out in the legislation, board members require written permission from Mr. Walsh. Is that correct? For example, the requirement is that it is three or more board members who sit in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Where there is a deviation from that, does Mr. Walsh give written permission?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Is that a written proposal?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: How many times has that occurred in the past, let us say, three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What kind of cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: No, sorry. The 2016 review states that small-scale development proposals should generally be determined by a division comprising of a single board member, unless that board member disagrees with the inspector's report. Therefore, anything that is looking for a deviation from that must be larger-scale developments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: So none of the strategic developments would have been looked at by-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: But Mr. Walsh gave a written instruction in 2019 for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: A board resolution. Right. Could Mr. Walsh furnish the Committee of Public Accounts with that board resolution?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: In how many of cases that have gone to judicial review would the decision have been made by fewer than three people?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Do we have a number?