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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it possible that there are lines of spending by Departments that are not providing value for money and that there are other Departments that are urgently in need of funding to which they cannot get access because it is embedded in a line of spend in another Department? Do we have an imprest system such that each Department holds the budget they have the previous year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am more interested from the perspective of a range of Departments. Where a Minister wants to spend money in a particular area but from within the Department's existing budget, does he or she require the sanction of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: If a Minister wants to reallocate funding from one area of his or her Department to another area, is the approval of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform required to do it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it fair to say that there is a imprest system in place to allow Departments to hold the budget they have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has a Department's allocation ever reduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Those were times of economic war. I am trying to make a serious point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of technical expertise, how many qualified accounts are there in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am speaking about the personnel who deal with budgets for Departments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the background of the staff who are analysing the budgets and options?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Watt believe the perception that we get back from other Departments that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is more interested in the micro-spending of Departments than the actual overall macro-spending is unfair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: If a Minister moves expenditure from one voted heading to another in his Department but is not looking for extra funding, will he still require approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What did Mr. Watt call that? Was it "vire"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is to move money across. Does that require approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to highlight a dreadful attack on Fergus Kilcoyne, an Independent councillor from Patrickswell. At 4.45 a.m. last Monday morning, his house was attacked. All the windows were broken and his car was smashed. He, his wife and their children were asleep in the house. His wife and family were terrorised. Gardaí based at Roxboro Road Garda station are carrying out an...
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, to the House. This is about the amendment of the Act of 2015. The Minister of State's speech has not been provided.
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do we get a copy of the speech?
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The two elements to the Bill are the amendment of the Act about the appointment of the chairperson of the appeals commission which appears technical in nature, and Part 3, which is the change to update the definition of EU prospectus law which also looks to be a technical point. I would make a general point on the area of tax appeals. There has been various legislation coming through and...
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has an interim chairperson been appointing pending enactment of the legislation?
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: When does the Minister of State expect the appeals chairperson will be appointed?
- Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Good. The issue in Part 3, which is to update the definition of EU prospectus law, is technical in nature. Overall, I welcome the update of the entire appeal mechanism, both in terms of resources and ensuring that they are heard and expedited. It is most important in terms of the functioning of businesses.