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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I propose Deputy Aindrias Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ministers for being here. It gives us a good opportunity to examine the stability programme update. Housing is the number one issue facing the country so I will seek clarity on the indicative allocation for housing. We know that €3.9 billion is allocated to the Department as a whole in 2024 and that will increase to €4.3 billion in 2026. However, a large share,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is fine. I appreciate that the Minister may not have some of this information to hand today. If he can get back to the committee with it, that would be great.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very detailed, but it is important.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. Are there any other forms of non-voted expenditure for the building of social and affordable housing within the general government balance?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would indeed. If the Minister could clarify, is ISIF lending to the Land Development Agency is completely off the balance sheet?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister will include that in the note. Okay. Is there any scope for ISIF to provide financing on a commercial basis to approved housing bodies to deliver affordable or cost-rental housing? Would this be off the balance sheet in the same manner as the LDA?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is our final SPU. Next year, as the Minister indicated, it will be replaced by the new progress report in April of each year under the EU fiscal rules. The SPU states that the medium-term fiscal plans will commit member states to an agreed net expenditure path for a five-year period and the plan will subsequently be endorsed by the Council of the European Union. It states that, once...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What would happen if there was a major external shock or whatever? Would we not be so restricted that we could not adapt to a situation like that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would have to be done collectively. Is that not giving away our power regarding how we could respond? We are a small, open economy. If something happened in the US, with our overdependency on multinationals from the US, I cannot understand how we would be able to respond in the way we would need to if we are so restricted by this.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can the escape clause be used on an individual member state basis-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That may also apply to some of my other questions. All these issues have become more important as the Government is legislating to lock away €6 billion each year. This is likely to mean that in the coming years the Government will have limited space to increase capital spending on the building of social and affordable homes above what is already accounted for in the base. Another...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----or does it have to be collective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will start with the Department of Finance. What is the projected spend on the defective blocks scheme out to 2030 or for the next number of years? Does Ms Gleeson have those figures with her?