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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: The committee is in public session. I have received apologies from Deputy Steven Matthews. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: I welcome our guests. This engagement is with representatives from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the acting chairperson of the council, Professor Michael McMahon, and Dr. Adele Bergin and Mr. Niall Conroy. Twice a year, we have an opportunity, as part of the EU semester, to meet the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council to consider issues raised in the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Professor McMahon. Before I go to the first contributor, I notice Deputy Healy-Rae has his hand up.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: I am afraid not. We have an established rota and Deputy Healy-Rae is some way down the list-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: -----and we have a full attendance. I will go to Sinn Féin representative Deputy Doherty first.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)
Gerald Nash: Yes, and I will draw it to a close then.
- 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.