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- Other Questions: Ambulance Service (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: The Minister did not say whether he will intervene. What is unusual about this proposed strike is that it is not over pay or conditions. Dublin Fire Brigade is as traditional to Dublin as Brennan's bread. It is part of the fabric of the Dublin area. The Minister mentioned the HIQA report. There was opposition to that plan from the city councillors and firefighters, and a consultative...
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister for his response, which was more comprehensive than the response we got a month ago when this was raised by me and colleagues as a Topical Issue matter. I welcome a number of features of the response, first, that the Minister will discuss it with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government because, obviously, there is a key role for that...
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: 21. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a copy of the final report on the review of Dublin ambulance services [12099/17]
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: The Minister is aware that SIPTU members in Dublin Fire Brigade will conduct 24 hour stoppages on Saturday 18 March and Monday 27 March to highlight their opposition to an attempt to break up the its emergency medical service by removing its ambulance call and dispatch functions. Fianna Fáil and I strongly oppose any move to remove the delivery of Dublin's ambulance service from Dublin...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: No.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: I thank the delegates for their fascinating presentation. The slides helped. I have three questions, although the delegates have answered one of them. There is a likelihood that the State will sell 25% of AIB in the short term and the understanding is the proceeds of any sale of bank stock would go towards reducing debt. Have the delegates any comment to make on this? In what manner...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: Would there be a level of paying down below which the market would not be happy?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: GNI* was mentioned. We heard a fascinating presentation on it last week when the Governor of the Central Bank and the director general of the CSO attended the committee. Essentially, Mr. O'Kelly is saying we owe a pile of cash and the ratio to whatever measurement is used is irrelevant, given that the pile of cash remains the same.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: I am sorry, as that sounds like a stupid question. GNI* has no impact. The question in which I am half-interested is on the debt-to-GNI* ratio.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: Is Brexit on the NTMA's risk register? Is it enhancing or making the work of the NTMA easier? Is it making selling easier or impeding it? What has been the NTMA's experience of it so far?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (7 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: 308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11458/17]
- Estimates for Public Services 2017: Message from Select Committee (2 Mar 2017)
John Lahart: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2017 - Vote No. 38.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: I welcome Professor Philip Lane, Governor, and Mr. John Flynn, head of the Irish economic analysis division, in the Central Bank of Ireland. I also welcome Mr. Pádraig Dalton, Director General, Ms Jennifer Banim, Assistant Director General CSO and the Economic and Environment Statistics section, and Ms Gillian Roche, head of Government accounts division, from the Central Statistics...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: As Acting Chairman, I want to echo those views. The clerk might pass on the views of the committee to the Mathews family. We might pause for a few seconds as we remember the passing of Peter today.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: I thank Professor Philip Lane for his attendance. I invite him to make his opening statement.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: Thank you, Governor. The director general, Ms Banim, will make an opening statement. I am sorry - Mr. Pádraig Dalton will speak. I beg your pardon.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: Thank you assistant director. My apologies; I had an Oscars, "La La Land" moment. I thank the director general of the CSO, Mr. Dalton, and the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Lane.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: Mr. Dalton referred to the figures spiking in 2015 and 2016. Does he have any intelligence as to why they spiked? He stated that a large number of companies domiciled their accounts here, but why did it happen in those years?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: I get that, but what prompted it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)
John Lahart: Could Mr. Dalton even just make a guess at why?