Results 61-80 of 332 for speaker:Shay Brennan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if waiting times in family court will be reduced by recruiting more administrators or judges to address this issue. [48318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his policy regarding the establishment of a strategic gas reserve; if private companies will be considered as part of the delivery or operation of this reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if comprehensive environmental assessments have been undertaken on proposals from private companies to operate or host Ireland’s strategic gas reserve; the status of such applications or assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria being used to determine whether the State, private companies, or a mixture of both should operate or develop strategic gas storage infrastructure; and if he will comment on the transparency of the decision-making process. [46740/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to list the stakeholders, including private companies, community groups and industry, that have been consulted on the future of gas storage and liquid natural gas in Ireland in 2024 and 2025; and to confirm if feedback from these groups will inform final policy. [46741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Sep 2025)

Shay Brennan: 1740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the mortality rate for non-coursing greyhounds between registration at birth in the Irish Coursing Club stud book and registration at microchipping (12 weeks of age) in the Irish Coursing Club Stud Book for each of the years 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45154/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: I thank the witnesses for joining us today. I have a number of questions. I might not get through them all but maybe if we get brief answers we have a chance of doing that. The NTMA obviously takes a view of the markets and what is going on in the national economy, or more importantly the global economy. Has the NTMA done any modelling on the impact of tariffs or the impact of Ireland's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: So the NTMA takes the Department of Finance forecasting modelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Great. I am just trying to understand the net debt figure. This is €157 billion and it is based off €218 billion debt and whatever is in our two sovereign wealth funds. That still leaves a gap of between €40 billion and €50 billion. What is that? Is that short-term cash?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: How is that cash managed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Okay. That is a substantial short-term cash balance. How is that managed? Where is it kept? Is it liquid cash? How is return versus liquidity balanced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: What is the broad investment strategy for the two sovereign wealth funds? Will Mr. O’Connor comment on the targeted percentage return? How liquid are those investments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Is the ISIF now fully divested from the companies on the UN Human Rights Council’s database?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Are there plans to continue with those holdings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: With regard to the fraud case, it was mentioned that €1.54 million was recovered. How can money be partially recovered? Is it the bank in question that contributed to that? Should it not be fully recovered or not recovered at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Okay. That is fair enough. Has there been any other such fraud in any of the NTMA bodies or NewERA companies in recent years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: While I am conscious there is no one from NewERA present, of the 24 companies, from looking at the balance sheets, it seems that there is a substantial amount of cash and debt. Has any thought ever been given to an inter-company centralised treasury operation to offset one against the other across the companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: Staff bonuses rose 13% to €3.22 million. What KPIs drive variable pay?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic Data (17 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: 39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his response to the recent IMF report on the Irish economy, especially in relation to the areas under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39789/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Shay Brennan: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which public expenditure to date in 2025 compares to the same period in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39790/25]