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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (19 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: 99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in regard to introducing the gambling control Bill 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7447/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Apologies have been received from Deputy Alan Farrell. On 18 December 2014, the Dáil ordered that the following Revised Estimates for Public Services 2015 be referred to this committee for consideration: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance; Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General; Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners; and Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We will begin the discussion on Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I advise the Deputy and the Minister that we are dealing with the Estimates and I ask them to stop squabbling.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I remind members we are finishing at 7 p.m. I call Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is asking the Minister to repeat himself again, as Deputy Michael McGrath asked the same question earlier. If you want we can add it on.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Deputy to stick to issues.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I summarise from the Office of the Minister for Finance administrative subheadings, 1 to 7. Programme A - European Union and international policy. Subheads A1 - administration pay; A2 - administration non-pay; A3 - consultancy and other services, key outputs, output targets and context and impact indicators. Programme B - the financial services policy. Subhead B1 - administration pay; B2...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We now turn to Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General administrative subheads 1 to 9, programme A - audit and reporting. Subhead A1 and A2 relate to administration, pay and non-pay. Are there any comments? No. On the question of outputs and output targets, context and impact indicators, are there any comments? No. With regard to appropriations-in-aid, are there any...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We said we would conclude at 7 p.m. We have a number of options, one of which is to revisit this on another day.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Will we extend the meeting for half an hour and try to finish all of the business?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As there are no further comments on Vote 9 we will move on to Vote 10, Office of the Appeal Commissioners. Does anyone wish to comment on this Vote?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As there are no further comments on Vote 10, I thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee in its consideration of the 2015 Revised Estimates.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Message to Dáil (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Finance has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2015: Vote 7 — Office of the Minister for Finance; Vote 8 — Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General; Vote 9 — Office of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As we have a quorum I call the meeting to order. We will proceed with session one of this morning's business, which is a public hearing discussion with Mr. Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. I welcome everyone to the ninth public hearing of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. Later this morning we will hear from Dr. Donal Donovan, former...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Mr. Buti. Just to get matters under way, the questioners this morning will be Senator Marc MacSharry and Senator Susan O'Keeffe, followed by Deputies John Paul Phelan, Eoghan Murphy, Joe Higgins, Kieran O'Donnell, Pearse Doherty and Michael McGrath, and Senators Sean Barrett and Michael D'Arcy. Can Mr. Buti clarify how his role is different from that of the European...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Buti said the Commission would not have had the legal tools to ask Ireland to take any corrective action; in that regard, in the absence of enforcement powers, what steps should the European Commission have taken in relation to non-fiscal policies across member states?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We are talking about the period leading up to it.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I might make an interjection at this point. Mr. Buti is very clear in his engagement with the committee. He understands that he may discuss the period leading up to the crisis period, rather than the crisis period itself. I will correct Senator MacSharry if he drifts into that area.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps the Senator might want to apply his question so that it relates specifically to whether mechanisms, firewalls and safeguards were in place and in the power of the Commission in the lead-up to the crisis period, but were not applied. I think that is the question he is asking. It has been asked. Maybe Mr. Buti can answer that and then we will go on to the Senator's next question.