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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Moran believe it is going nowhere?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Is the Department not enormously concerned about its impact?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Which is why the committee issued a reasoned opinion in December on this very point, to ensure if no other country had a problem with it that we do. Unfortunately not enough other countries did so to give it the yellow card.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The Department's opinion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Moran is as opposed to it as the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: With regard to Apple, the Department will be at the forefront of the legal challenge to the European Commission state aid ruling with respect to Apple. Commissioner Moscovici will come before the committee next week to discuss the CCCTB and the week after Commissioner Vestager will come before the committee to discuss the Apple ruling. What work has the Department been doing that it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The €13 billion may not be €13 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Where is the Department in the process of working through it to know whether it is €25 billion or €2 billion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Am I right in saying this goes back 20 years or more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Ten years. There were references to 1990 at one stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: It is a ten-year look back with regard to collection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The Department tells us it has about 300 staff and would prefer that figure to be close to 330. Clearly there are other large bodies under the remit of the Department such as the Revenue Commissioners, the Central Bank, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, NTMA and NAMA. What is the Department's involvement with these bodies day to day? They are under the Department's remit but are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Is it the same in the case of NAMA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Regarding what NAMA does and how it does it, if the Department is not happy with what NAMA is doing or how it is being done, can the Department change what NAMA is doing or is NAMA independent of the Department? Can NAMA do whatever it wants irrespective of the Department's opinion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Is the Department happy with how NAMA is performing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: That does not exactly say you are happy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I am looking at the commitments related to the Department of Finance in A Programme for a Partnership Government. Presumably it is the witnesses' role to implement these Government commitments that were developed last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I am looking at some of these targets, such as year one action and 100 days and so on. In the context of year one, has the Department - Mr. Moran and his team - been asking whether these have been achieved or how far they are getting? For example, the programme states:It is not ethically acceptable for Irish banks to charge excessive interest rates on standard variable rate customers. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: How frequent is that scrutiny?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The Department takes these commitments and report back quarterly. At this stage, have two quarterly reports been done?