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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I have my gavel here.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: When Dr. McQuinn refers to a site tax does he mean one that is completely separate and distinct from the local property tax?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: An additional tax?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The Deputy's final point.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The Deputy may make one quick point because a number of other people wish to speak.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am sorry, Deputy,-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Does Dr. McQuinn wish to answer?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett, who has five minutes. I mean that. I ask him to do the best he can. If he could ask his question in a focused way, it would be great.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Yesterday, DKM told us there would be fines of €610 million by 2020 in respect of climate change if we did not reach our targets, with between €3.7 billion and €5.5 billion by 2030. These figures are quite significant.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: At one point the ESRI indicated that any benefit outweighed the costs of the help-to-buy scheme. Is that right?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Okay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Professor Barrett. What I referenced there, as the clerk just pointed out to me, about the help to buy scheme is that the ESRI says that previous development incentives were extended to such a level that any benefit is outweighed by associated costs. I think I may have said it the other way around, according to the clerk. I have been here for three and a half hours.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic and Social Research Institute (13 Sep 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I had a syntax malfunction. I thank Professor Barrett, Dr. McQuinn and Dr. Lawless. We appreciate their contributions and presentations. I thank members of the committee as well.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I have received apologies from Deputy Pat Deering. Before I begin, I welcome all the members to this meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I am delighted to be selected as chairwoman or chairperson, and I look forward to working with all of the members. As members will be aware, this committee was established in 2016 to consider national issues affecting public expenditure...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Deputy Calleary.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I inquired of the clerk to the committee and I understand that I was entitled to take the Chair.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: That is fine. As Deputy Calleary will be aware, I have been a member of the Committee of Public Accounts for the past year. It is quite an adversarial committee. I have read the transcripts over the past number of months. This committee is somewhat more salutary.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I hope to continue in that vein. I thank Deputy Calleary for his good wishes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that. I thank Deputy Brophy.