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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Costs of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: Will the witness provide the profit figures in written form and circulate them to the committee? It would be helpful to be able to compare them.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on reviewing the rules regarding the back to education allowance to allow persons to pursue courses that represent a development in their learning, training and career prospects but which may not represent progression as currently implemented under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28792/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when his Department will publish the Millar report on the situation of lone parents; his views on reported leaks of the report which indicate that the report finds that cuts have made lone parents worse off and that this has contributed to child poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28791/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the establishment of a universal single-tier State pension rather than the existing two-tier structure, which gives a lower rate for those who have been out of work caring for family members or in training for a longer period in their working life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28794/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on European affairs took place. [28290/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: Has the Cabinet committee discussed the growing momentum towards a significant further step in the militarisation of the European Union in the context of Brexit, which has, according to one source who comes from an EU state with a large defence industry, created a "new situation" but that "we are just at the beginning of the process" and that talks could go on for "years to come"? He or she...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Strategy Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategy Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. One of the more interesting parts of the expenditure report was the part on expenditure rules. It contains a lot. In summary, empirical evidence suggests the existence of a negative correlation between public investment and the use of an expenditure rule estimating that countries with an expenditure rule in place will see the ratio of gross fixed capital formation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The option of going off-balance sheet was also covered by the report, that is to simply develop extra budgetary or quasi-fiscal activities. That, effectively, refers to off-balance sheet, PPPs and such like. The report does not refer to them as a positive but as a negative. Is there not a fundamental problem with the expenditure rule as it is currently written even in that limited basis?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The report also says that expenditure rules seem to be effective in mitigating the pro-cyclical bias which characterises Government spending. If there was a recession tomorrow the fiscal space would shrink to a negative figure and to keep within the fiscal space it would be necessary to introduce extra cuts. Can the Minister explain how is that not pro-cyclical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: One could argue that we already have a rainy day fund in the shape of the Strategic Investment Fund. We are not allowed to spend it as long as the fiscal rules remain, at least as they currently are currently formulated, precisely because of the expenditure rules. What use is there in having a rainy day fund if we are going to be constrained within this limited fiscal space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The rules are blatantly pro-cyclical in the sense that if one had a recession tomorrow with 0% growth then one must cut spending. Those are the fiscal rules as they currently exist. Governments just say these rules exist to mitigate the pro-cyclical bias. It is impossible to explain that the existing rules are not pro-cyclical. If there is a crisis or recession further austerity will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Both the structural deficit and a ten-year growth are arbitrary figures. The point is also how they interact with the other rules. The Minister has said that the fiscal space this year is €1 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: If everything were to remain the same except for a GDP growth rate of 0% this year and a projected 0% rate next year, can the Minister tell me roughly what the fiscal space would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is surrounded by calculating machines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I did the figures previously. I do not have them in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I did the figures previously and they were negative. I think it is obvious that they would be negative but I did them regardless. It proves the point that the figures are procyclical. The Minister can say what he likes and that they are not but they are.