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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I was not planning to come back in on a second round, but I am here now and will absolutely take full advantage of the opportunity. We might turn to Vote 27 this time.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: Rather than get into the specifics too much, I just want to focus on the climate-related aspect of this Vote. I know there is a target there to take spending to €225 million. In a broader sense, though - and we had this discussion at a separate committee meeting in relation to ODA - there is the need less developed nations have not only for debt forgiveness but for debt forgiveness...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I wish to discuss the significant burden that Revenue's enhanced reporting requirements for employee benefits are placing on small- and medium-sized enterprises across Ireland. While the aim may be transparency, the reality is that SMEs must now report even the smallest non-cash benefits, sometimes just €10 in value, to Revenue on or before the day that they are provided. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (19 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: 29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a report on the cost of business advisory forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (19 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is undertaking a look-back exercise to identify business regulations that are now redundant to reduce unnecessary red tape; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33046/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I thank the witnesses. I appreciate them taking the time to join us and the detailed thought that has gone into their opening statements. I am absolutely horrified by the Israeli atrocities being carried out on the Palestinian people. I want Ireland to do everything within its influence to bring about a cessation of these actions without delay. Having read the opening statements, although...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I wish to make a correction. Ms Mahony said at the outset that we were funding Israeli bonds; we are clearly not funding them. The Central Bank is reviewing prospectuses. I just wanted to correct the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I fully agree. They cannot be sold without the certification. However, I would like it on record that we are not actually funding them. I take everything else the witness said. Ms Mahony made reference to the Minster for Finance's ability to advise the Central Bank. Does Ms Mahony agree the Minister has absolutely no power or right under Irish or EU law to instruct the Central Bank to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: What does Dr. Nuseibah see as being the consequences of breaching EU prospectus regulations? The boxes being ticked, as the witness described them, are not prescribed by the Irish Government; they are prescribed by the EU under the EU prospectus regulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I appreciate Dr. Nuseibah is not an Irish politician and he appreciates I am not an international legal expert, which is why I am asking him questions. He might look at this situation through a purely legal lens but I am looking at the realpolitik of the situation. Hence, my next question. How much value do the witnesses place on Ireland's role within the EU relating to advocacy to fellow...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I am grateful for the opportunity to address the House on the Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025. As a representative of Dublin Rathdown, I am acutely aware of the importance of the local property tax, both as a source of funding for our local authority and as a topic of real concern for homeowners and communities across the country. I wish to set out...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I thank the witnesses for joining us. I appreciate them making the effort to come in and for taking the time. I also commend them on all the work they do for those around the world who are less well off than us. That is very much appreciated by everyone in this room. My questions fall into three categories and I will ask them reasonably quickly as I am conscious to give the witnesses...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I asked about any Irish institutions holding any of this debt. There was also the interest rate question.

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: First I will state, and maybe this is for the finance committee, that I would not like to think that international funds are using Ireland's tax efficient structure to maximise their profits while charging 12% to those who are worse off. That is something that either this committee or the finance committee needs to examine because if that is the case it would simply be outrageous. I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: I welcome the Governor and his senior colleagues. I appreciate their giving of their time here at the committee meeting today. I have a relatively short series of questions, so we might go back and forth on those. First, for what countries is Ireland the home state in terms of the evaluation of bond prospectuses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Shay Brennan: We inherited Israel as a result of Brexit. Did any of the other countries come along at the same time?