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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I would not have expected that to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Are you saying, if I read you correctly, that the Haddington Road agreement has been responsible for reducing Government consumption from 4.8% to 1%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: It seems to be the principal factor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Government consumption seems very low but there you are. You mentioned why you were predicting a lower growth rate for 2015 down from 4.7% to 3.6%. Would you recap on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Mr. McCarthy mentioned in regard to the 4.7% that the bulk of it was comprised of growth in domestic demand as opposed to the healthy exports which are clearly there. Therefore, the domestic economy's recovery is more relevant than the export market to the improvement in domestic demand. In relation to our eurozone partners and their impact on our growth, to what extent do you feel that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I was very interested in a number of your responses on the construction sector. I noticed in your charts that it seems particularly volatile over Q2 and Q3 of 2013 and Q2 of 2014. What do you think is contributing to that volatility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Particularly as we are looking towards construction as an area that will feed demand and therefore feed into the growth for next year, it would be important to note that it is a particularly volatile sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Can Mr. McCarthy could go forward a couple of slides to the one showing GDP and GNP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: First, I just want to make a general comment. It never ceases to amuse me how people talk about the health of an economy in relation to new car sales. To the best of my knowledge, not a single component of the average imported car is manufactured in this country, so how it is supposedly helping the Irish economy is a mystery to me. I presume it is supposed to indicate the robustness of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: They could just as easily have foreign holidays or maybe something that is manufactured in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Election of Vice Chairman (7 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I thank Deputy Ciarán Lynch for the excellent role he played in chairing the committee. It is an interesting, vibrant and cohesive committee and I echo his words about the secretariat. The new Chairman and the previous one worked well together. With the secretariat, the committee has completed an incredible amount of work in the past 12 months.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I agree with Senator Barrett’s concerns about the future of third level education. As a recent graduate of University College Dublin, UCD, I am well aware of what is happening on the front line and in particular of the pressure on academic staff to deliver with less and less resources. We tend to talk in terms of falling unemployment figures and improved fiscal outlooks and so forth,...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I feel a certain sense of déjà vu. I think I am listening to the same speeches from the Opposition that I heard yesterday and last Thursday, and I will probably hear the same speeches tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: There is a certain amount of amnesia on the other side and it is important to note some of the positives that have come from this unfortunate incident, particularly the announcement yesterday by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, on the manner in which future State board members will be appointed.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: It is a very important development which is most welcome and for which I have called in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Aideen Hayden: In the long run, State boards will be the better as a result of this debacle. It is disingenuous of Fianna Fáil to throw muck about the appointment of people to State boards. Many of us on this side of the House could point to appointments to State boards made by Fianna Fáil. As Senator Barrett pointed out, we seem to be in recovery regarding the housing market, as recent fiscal...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I congratulate Deputy Ciarán Lynch, Chairman of the banking inquiry sub-committee, and all sub-committee members on the timely and speedy manner in which they have carried out their work. The final submission from the sub-committee will come before the Committee on Procedure and Privileges of both Houses and we will be in a position to debate the terms of reference of the inquiry by...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I am no expert on the gambling industry but I initially approached this Bill from a fiscal perspective. I thank the alliance for racing and breeding, which sent me a copy of their strategy for budget 2015 and a document on the taxing of betting in Ireland. This provided me with an insight I did not previously have on the issue of gambling in Ireland. The submission illustrates from a fiscal...

Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Aideen Hayden: On a point of order, Senator Paschal Mooney has impugned a person's character and reputation, which is not fair.