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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As a matter of interest, if the Minister of State were asked what were the most substantial reforms that have been done in his Department in recent years, what would he say they are?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As regards sites, the Minster of State has done a full inventory of all the sites the OPW manages. Does he have any liaison with, say, the IDA in specific regions where the IDA finds it does not have the appropriate sites? Does he liaise with the IDA and see if he would have the appropriate sites that might be useful for it or even for other enterprises?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I will now call out the individual programmes and corresponding subheads for Vote 13. Vote 13, Office of Public Works, subheads A1 to A7, inclusive. Are there any comments or questions? This is programme A, flood risk management. A1 and A2 are administration - pay and non-pay. A3 is purchase of plant and machinery. A4 is hydrometric and hydrological investigation and monitoring. A5 is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Key outputs, targets and context and impact indicators. Any comments or questions? No. Agreed. Appropriations-in-aid - any comments or questions?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee with its consideration of the Revised Estimates and programmes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ended 31 December 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The committee is in public session. Today we will hear from Professor John FitzGerald on issues relating to the international, EU and domestic policy context for the banking crisis in Ireland, and in particular the ESRI's medium-term reviews in the years prior to Ireland's banking crisis. I welcome everyone to the eighth hearing of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Professor John FitzGerald has been a research affiliate at the ESRI since November 2014. Prior to that he was a research professor at the ESRI and programme co-ordinator of the macro-economics research area. He is president of the Association d’Instituts Européens de Conjoncture Économique and a former president of the Irish Economic Association. He is presently a...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I turn to our lead questioners, Deputy Pearse Doherty and Senator Michael D'Arcy, I will do some scene setting with Professor FitzGerald to provide some clarity on the role of the ESRI and its relationship with the Department of Finance. The ESRI is often described as the Government think tank. Is this an accurate description? Will Professor FitzGerald describe the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Members of the committee will raise questions about the medium-term reviews from the ESRI. What is the purpose of these reviews? What was Professor FitzGerald's role in producing them?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: What is relationship between the ESRI and the Department of Finance in the publication of the medium-term reviews? Does the ESRI do this in co-operation with the Department? Is it through a request from the Department?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it the ESRI which decides the final publication of the review?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In his opening statement, Professor FitzGerald stated:With all ESRI reports, the conclusions in each report were the personal responsibility of the authors. They did not represent the views of the ESRI. The ESRI with all its publications operates a quality control process where the publications were vetted in advance by independent reviewers to ensure they met an appropriate academic...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I would like some clarification on the professor's response to Deputy Doherty. He said he wrote to the Central Bank in 2006 expressing a series of concerns. Is that right?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: What were those concerns?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Did you get a satisfactory reply from the regulator to both sets of correspondence?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That is a leading question. The Senator may ask a question but cannot make the statement himself.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That is a leading question. The Senator may ask a question but if he is asking the witness to verify his own commentary that is not a question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am aware that the committee at the context phase of the inquiry wrote out and gave a broad scope as to the area we may be going into. I know this is an issue that was not flagged with Professor Fitzgerald for this morning and that the Senator is going into areas that were not part of his preparation. If he wishes to respond I will give him space to do so.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy O'Donnell took about two and a half minutes to ask a question. I will give Professor FitzGerald an equal amount of time to respond.