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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Okay. I thank Professor McMahon and Mr. Conroy. We do not have a representative from Fine Gael online from what I can establish so the next speaker on our rota is Deputy Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Moynihan. The next contributor is Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Boyd Barrett is well over time but that does not take away from the merit of the points he is making, on which I absolutely agree. Could Professor McMahon respond within a minute?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Does Professor McMahon mean to say he never worked on a building site when he was in college?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The professor was the fire door industry’s loss.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Conroy and Professor McMahon for responding to Deputy Doherty. I also have some questions and observations, while we are on the issue of under-provision in the health budget, which is well known. It has been ventilated here, on the floor of the Dáil and elsewhere that the Minister for Health in the Estimates process last year requested approximately €2 billion from...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: In order to be helpful, the witnesses might also do the following before moving on. It is now evident that we are close to the point at which the HSE recruitment moratorium is about to be lifted. That will probably add to it. I do not know if that has been factored into the anticipated deficit for the rest of this year. Public calls were made by the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Exactly.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will go back to the charge of fiscal gimmickry and the misclassification of non-core spending. The figure of €4 billion for the classification non-core spending is absolutely a case of fiscal gimmickry. We sometimes lose sight of the significance of the scale of what we are talking about here. I am old enough to remember a point in time, eight, nine or ten years ago, when...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the witnesses for their contribution this evening. It is always excellent to have them here with us. It enlightens the committee and helps us significantly in the work we have to do.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Yes you can, Deputy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. I also thank Professor McMahon, Mr. Niall Conroy and their colleagues for being here this evening and for their contribution. It is appreciated.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the professor. We will move on.

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will pick up from where Deputy Ó Murchú left off. I am sure the Minister of State and the Chair will indulge me in referring to the proposal, or at least the contemplation, of another round of redundancies at PayPal Ireland. Those prospective redundancies will impact on staff who were originally located at the PayPal facility in our home county of Louth, in Dundalk town, and it...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on the motion and we will not oppose it. Any day we debate a sincerely tabled motion in this Chamber to protect and support enterprise is a good one. I recall only too well debates on jobs and business in this Chamber, which were held in very different circumstances when I first entered this House 13 years ago. The fiscal crash meant we had an unemployment rate of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: When will the health service recruitment ban be lifted? It is affecting real people, especially the over-75s. It is June, yet, yesterday morning 33 people were on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. That number, unfortunately, has repeated itself today. There are 43 in Cork today and 34 in Galway, which is unprecedented for June. This is because these hospitals are not...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the difficulty being experienced by young adults with disabilities and additional needs in accessing transport to adult education facilities once they transfer from the special schools they attended as children (details supplied); what plans his Department have to address this anomaly; and if...

Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: If the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will indulge me for a moment, tributes were paid to our usher and good friend, Martin, by the Ceann Comhairle and others during Leaders’ Questions. I wish him well in his retirement after 25 years of outstanding service in the Oireachtas. I thank him for looking after all of us and our interests. It has been a pleasure to work with him. He always...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: This evening's engagement is with representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to discuss the infrastructure guidelines and recent changes made thereto. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Kevin Meaney, Ms Ciara Morgan, Mr. Frank Newman, Ms Niamh Foley, and Ms Anna Cremins. Before we begin, I wish to explain some of the...