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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It just came up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that the Minister of Health is a colleague of the Minister's. That said, is the Minister surprised that, in his direct engagement with the Minister for Health during the budget process and in identifying the Supplementary Estimate needed for the Department of Health, the Minister, Deputy Harris, did not inform him of what he was aware of at that time, namely, that the largest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps I can put it like this. Let us for one minute imagine that it was the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, who was in charge of this project. What would the Minister say to him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I would say the position would be very different. There is a bit of back-covering going on here. This is ridiculous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody disputes that. The reality, however, is that there was awareness of this matter. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cannot sit here and say it is okay for a Minister to be aware of a serious overrun on the major capital project of our time and not inform the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the line Minister, particularly in the middle of a budgetary process...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I move onto the issue of Brexit. We have asked questions on Brexit on numerous occasions but let us park the point that we all want to see the withdrawal agreement ratified and agree that is the best option to mitigate against Brexit. However, there is concern that the withdrawal agreement may not be the end product and we will have a disorderly Brexit. The Minister spoke about the impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What if the goods come across the Border into this State? What if they come from Newry to Dundalk or from Strabane to Lifford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is that the Government's position? The Government is very clear that there will be checks coming into Dublin Port, Rosslare Europort or wherever from Britain but coming from the North into the State, whether it is into Donegal or elsewhere are there literally no checks or will the checks happen somewhere else? I am trying to figure that out. I understand and I 100% support the line that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will make just one point on the new national children's hospital and it relates to taxation. I heard the point made by Deputy Eamon Ryan on the overrun. There is no doubt that construction inflation would have been factored into costs. Every project has construction inflation factored into it. Inflation has exceeded what was expected. Will the Minister outline what rate of inflation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Did the Minister phone him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, the sanctioning body for the project, does he accept any responsibility for the overrun on this project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Given his assessment of the situation currently, does the Minister envisage any scenario where we will see a reduction in the cost of the national children's hospital, in line with what is in the public domain? Can he satisfy us that we are not going to see further significant overruns on the project that could drag it closer to the figure that was given to the Committee of Public Accounts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: No, I am asking two questions. What is the Minister's assessment of the potential for the project to come in under the figure that is in the public domain, and what is the risk of it being in excess of that and creeping towards €2 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask the Minister about taxation. There has been a continuous effort to try to centralise tax sovereignty and remove our tax decision powers from us as a sovereign state. That is ongoing. The Minister made that point in respect of the passerelle clause. Is it his position that we would be told of any such proposal to move from unanimity to qualified majority voting on taxation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: One of the states that was in our corner in this regard was the UK, which is about to leave the EU and that changes the political dynamic in Europe. I welcome the fact that it will be resisted, and rightly so. We have had many discussions about the BEPS process, the Minister will be aware that last week the OECD issued a policy note on the inclusive framework addressing tax challenges in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This is a significant move from the OECD.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to make a point on insurance because it is important for people to have an insurance policy. The Minister referred to insurance companies, some of which have contingency planning, but there are issues with others who have not done that in the UK and Malta. In the context of Brexit, what does that mean for a consumer who might be listening to the debate? If I was watching the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry, yes.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (31 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which she received the latest update from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on its investigation into the insurance market; her engagement with the commission on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4438/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the analysis of the impact of the increase in betting tax to date; when a report will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4770/19]