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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, I am.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. Much of what I wanted to ask about has already been the subject of questions and there is no point in repeating it.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Island Communities (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: 22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made on the ionad pobail on Inis Meáin, which was approved under the national development plan; the stage the project is at; and the date for construction and completion. [24442/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fostaíocht sa Ghaeltacht (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard atá déanta ag a Roinn chun cuideachtaí a mhealladh go hEastát Tionscail na Tulaí i mBaile na hAbhann, Contae na Gaillimhe; an bhfuil imní uirthi faoi líon na bpost a cailleadh san eastát sin le blianta beaga; agus cén plean atá ag a Roinn chun cúrsaí tionscail...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an méid atá ráite aige inniu. The fact that the summer economic statement was not published this year hampers the scrutiny of the budgetary process by this committee and the Dáil. As I have a number of aspects that I want to discuss, I will launch straight into asking questions. In terms of the wage subsidy scheme, has the Minister...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: On the borrowing requirements for 2021, the Department has stated its intention to reach a deficit of between 4.5% and 5.5% of GDP on a no-policy-change basis. I seek clarification on this. What is this deficit range in nominal terms? In saying this is on a no-policy-change basis, does that include the €9 billion in Covid-related expenditure? With regard to funding the borrowing,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: Can the Minister give any extra details on those further transfers from NAMA or is that as much as he can say at present?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: That would be helpful. Can the Minister provide a breakdown of the €9 billion for Covid-related expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: That would be great. We have a situation whereby my colleague, Deputy Doherty, submitted a parliamentary question about the €9 billion and did not get an adequate response to it, but later we saw that it was then printed in the Irish Examiner. In that regard, the Minister said in his opening statement that he has announced supports which, to date, amount to €24.5 billion or...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: I ask the Minister to comment on deficit levels and Ireland remaining within the EU pack.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fine. I am not asking the Minister to give me the figures for the other countries. He is, though, having discussions on those figures with others in the EU, and it seems that those discussions will provide some direction to the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Chathaoirleach agus leis an Aire. At this stage, we are preparing for a disorderly Brexit. What spending provisions are there to deal with a no-deal Brexit and of what does the Minister see them being composed?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. We all know that public health and the health of our economy are inextricably linked and our economic forecasts are based in the existence of this virus. The public health measures are, of course, necessary to contain its spread and its impact on the economy. The economic forecast published this week outlined public health restrictions here have been more...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: We need a new collective pay agreement and I think I am correct in saying that the Minister will be the first in the history of this State not to have such an agreement in place. It is extremely important to ensure that an agreement is reached with the unions which brings about real pay equality in our public services. We need to have good public service wages. We have been quick to clap...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a commitment will be given to remove FEMPI legislation. [26636/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: The current public sector pay agreement expires on 31 December this year. There is no doubt that the Minister will be sitting down with representatives of ICTU's public service pay committee. I am concerned that with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, the FEMPI legislation, still in place the Government will hold a big stick over the heads of the public service...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: We should not forget that the FEMPI legislation was emergency legislation introduced to tackle the onset of the financial crisis of 2008, when we saw the first permanent cut in public service pay rates in the history of the State. Here we are almost 13 years on and the legislation is still in place. Today we face a crisis of a very different kind and the emergency measures that were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the emergency measures in budget 2021 will increase capital expenditure in 2021 to €9.1 billion as per the July stimulus; and the way in which this differs from the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December 2019, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, which had already laid out capital funding of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Mairéad Farrell: The July stimulus includes an emergency measure to increase capital expenditure by some €1 billion to €9.1 billion, which is claimed as an increase of approximately 12%. However, the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December 2019 already laid out Exchequer capital funding of €9.1 billion for 2021. As such, I fail to see any additionality in what is...