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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: The Deputy has another two minutes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: It is the Green Party time slot now, so I will focus on the process and the issues we are dealing with in this report. We have been lucky enough over recent weeks, both before the interim report and afterwards, to talk to a number of parliamentarians and the counterparts of the Parliamentary Budget Office in various countries, and a number of issues have emerged which I would like to put to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes. That is what the Austrians call it. That is their phrase.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, as in a no-change budget.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: A no-change budget, if the Minister prefers that term.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I am not sure which Minister would like to take those questions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Boyd Barrett's time has expired. I call Deputy Mairéad Farrell.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Patricia Ryan is next and then I will open the floor to any Deputies who have further questions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I am delighted to hear the announcement on the well-being budgets today. We heard from one of our counterparts in Canada that it had introduced performance metrics and that they had not really been the transformative measure they had hoped they would be. Obviously, I am a great proponent of well-being indicators. Do the Ministers have any thoughts on how they see well-being indicators or...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister. We need to take a question from another Deputy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: If the Minister can respond in about 20 seconds he should go ahead.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Mairéad Farrell is next, followed by Deputy Durkan. We have only five minutes left.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I know Tuesday is a busy day for both Ministers and I thank them for their attendance. I also thank committee members for their attendance. The committee is now adjourned and will meet again on Friday, 12 February, in private session.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister. We have seen examples of effective communication of financial information with the public in other countries, which we hope will be in our report. He touched on the issue of Estimates and I would like to go back to it. We in the committee have talked a lot around the treatment by sectoral committees of budgets in general, Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. One...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister. Deputy Boyd Barrett is the next speaker. You are on mute, Deputy.
- Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: The report of the expert group set up to review the Mental Health Act 2001 was published in 2015. It contains 165 recommendations, including provisions intended to strengthen protections for people who are detained without consent at approved centres. In June 2016, the then Minister of State with responsibility for mental health, Deputy McEntee, stated that the draft legislation would be...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (3 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the issuing of speeding fines to be based on a driver’s income rather than a fixed penalty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5916/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Feb 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the employment wage subsidy scheme beyond 31 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5820/21]