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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Government were to reduce its plans to give tax back in the next budget, would that bring it within the framework?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Given the Government's expansion is approximately twice what Professor McHale thinks it should be, does he think the Government is anti-cyclical or pro-cyclical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It seemed to me that if one took out the tax breaks to those on upper incomes, what was left in the spring economic statement with regard spending and public expenditure was really only going to take account of the growth in demographics. The per capitaspend on that side would actually be static or slightly falling. Is that Professor McHale's assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the interesting points is that it is forecast that GDP will grow by approximately 17.5% by 2020, while Government consumption is to increase by only approximately 5.7%. Is it the stability programme update, SPU, plan that we will have this continuing downward pressure on Government consumption?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: In political terms, it seems like a plan for small government. That is perhaps not an issue on which Professor McHale might touch. Deputies Pearse Doherty and Michael McGrath have previously mentioned the issue that Opposition parties would have an opportunity to put their budget proposals to some kind of unit to have them costed in advance of an election, or even annually, in order that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Would IFAC have the facility or the competence to perform this role, now or in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Dr. O'Sullivan's response to Deputy Creed's engagement was interesting. One of the witnesses spoke about one of the things missing from this. There is nothing in these rules to prevent the Government from increasing revenue if it seeks to increase expenditure. The Mallow bypass is not being stopped by anybody else's rules, but by a Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Indeed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Would it be possible to say how much of our growth can be attributed to some of those external factors? Would it be 50%, 40% or 30%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. The level of demand in Britain and the United States and the exchange rate, both of which are outside the reach of policy drivers in this State, would be big determining factors in the health of the economy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I suggest there would still be a certain level of pent-up demand from the crash within the growth levels we see. I am referring to postponed investment. Would the witnesses say pent-up demand and postponed investment over the last seven years are represented in the domestic growth figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Do the witnesses have any views on what is necessary to resolve the problems in the housing sector? Perhaps that question is too micro for their analysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: My final question relates to planned Government investment over the coming years. I understand the level of investment is to be cut from 1.8% to 1.5%. We have had a conversation about infrastructural deficits. In a healthy economy that is maintaining its capital stock and ensuring competitiveness in that regard, what is the percentage of GDP in Government investment that is logical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is twice what it is now and more than twice what it is projected to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. Sin é. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [22781/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [23492/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [23491/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [23490/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [23489/15]