Results 81-100 of 506 for speaker:Joe Neville
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: No, but Mr. Coffey might have an opinion.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: It seems to be similar to 2004, 2005 and 2006.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: To be honest, that is the theme I heard when listening to Mr. Coffey and what came through in his opening statement. He struck me as being quite fiscally conservative in his thinking. I am looking at my three colleagues to my left who might potentially have different opinions but that is just based on the policies of the parties. The witness is almost saying we are probably at risk of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Fiscally then, yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Once again - and I do not want to put words in Mr. Coffey's mouth - he is essentially saying if we want to spend more that is fine, as long as we are taxing more. It is about fiscal conservatism, that is, not spending more than you are taking in, as opposed to any other-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I have a specific question to ask but I know I will be cut off in six seconds but we need to spend more on infrastructure. We have seen it all. We need to do more and the witness referenced this. How do we interlink the need to spend more on capital infrastructure while maintaining, not hothousing, the current expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How do you not do that if you need infrastructure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: We are trying to do that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I thank the witnesses for that. I know it was varied but I just wanted to see where it all fit together.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: What is the IFAC view on the potential spending on social welfare? We have not touched on that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How much of that is long-term unemployment?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How much of that is transitional? How much of it is actual-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: What is the number for more than 12 months?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Mr. Coffey would say anything we are spending on that is reasonable or understandable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Questions have been asked on that. We have got full-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: It would trickle up. To change tack entirely, what would IFAC base the budget on considering the fact there are six key contributors to corporation tax? What would the council recommend we do with the intake from that and how would we factor that into our revenue take in the budget?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: The overall fiscal strategy because we are ultimately putting our eggs in one basket. The issue is sustainability. We are trying to build an economic platform over a number of years but at the same time, one element of it is based on an uncontrollable, to a degree. Mr. Coffey alluded to that himself. He said that it might even grow more, especially in the short term. This year, it will...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How do we know something is sustainable? It is sustainable until it is gone, potentially. That is obviously what Mr. Coffey is getting at.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Mark Zuckerberg cannot foresee it either. That is the nature of the beast.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: The council is advocating for the rainy day fund to be added to.