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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Regarding the documentation that has been circulated, who took the decision not to circulate this to the committee in advance of today's hearing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Could the Chairman get clarity on that before we begin? Who within the Department decided the information would be circulated just before the committee began, giving us no opportunity to discuss it? Was the same information provided to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Did IFAC receive any other narrative? Will we receive the complete presentation provided to IFAC? Did it receive any additional information over and above what we have received today? When and by whom was the decision taken not to allow us access to the information before the group came before us today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Did IFAC receive any additional information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. McCarthy should be very clear on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Did the Department give IFAC an opportunity to review the document before engaging with the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Who took the decision not to provide us with this information in advance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: It was password protected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The budget is this day week, with respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: We thought we were into a phase where the Department would engage constructively with parliamentarians who are attempting to do their duties. To be handed a document such as this one a couple of minutes before the witnesses come before us is unsatisfactory. I will not labour the point because everybody wants to get through. It is unacceptable, but for the benefit of brevity, let us move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: It was, and we received the document as Mr. McCarthy walked in the door. With respect, Mr. McCarthy has made his point. Could he clarify to the committee later what happened, why it happened, whether a decision was taken by somebody that put us in a position where we did not have the documentation in advance of the meeting and, if so, by whom?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Still chirpy.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Can the Taoiseach explain the difference?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I suppose there was only a couple of percentage points in it.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Assistance Fund Issues (8 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that there is an increase in the student assistance fund for this academic year to ensure that all students who experience hardship through the fund can be assisted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42232/13]
- Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State for an overview of the programme. While I welcome his comments, unfortunately, they show no intent to review the criteria. He identified the eligibility criteria that applicants must meet. However, I return to what I stated in my opening comments, that those teachers are out of field - in other words, out of employment. They are not under contract in the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The criteria for entry to the professional diploma in mathematics for teachers, a course which is contracted to a number of universities to provide, excludes teachers who are not under contract. Many full qualified teachers are unable to find work due to the changes in the pupil-teacher ratio regime in recent years. They are highly qualified and skilled and ready to take up a job when it...
- Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Deputy must not have picked up penalty points.
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Is it The Rubberbandits?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: In that case we can expect the Deputy to apply soon to join the Labour Party.