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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Damien English: That is what we invest in. We are selling Ireland on the basis of talent.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Damien English: They are two separate arguments.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Damien English: The info stages can include analysis of what will happen if we do not do this. The reason we have these credits and incentives is to unlock activity in the first place. Without them it might not happen. I presume there will be some sensitivity analysis about how if we do not do this it might lead to a reduction in the spend, which in my view would not be a good thing.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: The amendments are fine. The thrust of this is to try to free-up board members' time to focus on strategy as well as involve the officers a lot more. That makes total sense to me. The general thrust of this Bill is around trying to strengthen the work of the credit unions, strengthen the roles they have and the services they provide but also making it somewhat more encouraging for new...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: We can have conversations around the development of relationships but the thrust of this legislation as it developed over the past couple of years, and certainly the conversations around it, have been focused on strengthening the relationship between the credit union movement, the Central Bank and the Department. Certainly in the past 12 months, that relationship seems to have developed a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: The purpose of the credit union movement is to avoid unnecessary costs and fees. I imagine the framework would reflect our discussion here and the intention would be to minimise fees. The whole thrust of this Bill is to make it possible for members of a credit union that does not offer proper mortgages or SME lending to easily go down the road to the next one. There are issues around which...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: It would be worthwhile for us as a committee, when we get to the framework stage, to consider that there has been much positive engagement with the credit union representative bodies and sector and they could come in to discuss the detail and framework. I totally agree with Deputy Doherty that we do not want to have legislation in place that does not facilitate or catch all the scenarios,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: That is how I read it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: If there are any issues to clarify, we can do it on Report Stage. It would be better if it were the other way round.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: I echo Deputy Doherty's comments about the engagement around this. I can see that best practice was set here around positive engagement with the sector, which made our job of working through amendments and getting them dealt with easier. I thank the Minister of State, her officials and her team for that engagement over the past year. I also thank them for the tone that has been set. It is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Damien English: I might be taking it up wrong. In every organisation, many members will not engage with it until they need to. They know the credit union is there when they need it but they might disappear for two or three years and probably would not be in the habit of popping in and responding. We allow for change here but I presume the member will have to look for it in the traditional way. I could be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Oct 2023)

Damien English: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 11 September 2023, if he is aware and if he will agree that the Revenue Commissioners methodology of taxpayer units includes all unearned income and part-time workers, and that if unearned income was removed along with part-time workers, the amount of the population that pays the top rate of tax at 40% would be...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2023)

Damien English: There is no guillotine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Damien English: I will not take up the committee's time for too long. Going back to Ms Shovlin's point, this is certainly beyond a fact-finding mission, but it has been a very worthwhile engagement. I hope, as a committee, we can make it worth the homeowners' while. The contributions from the witnesses have been very informative. The knowledge they have brought has been of immense value to us. I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Damien English: I take issue with the perception that engineers will, because of the State scheme, coerce people to accept sub-standard solutions. I would not agree with that. We should not be spreading fear among people that they will be forced to accept sub-standard solutions. Going back to the standards and knowing the people involved in reaching those standards, including people from Donegal who have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Damien English: It is a fair point but I think we are spreading a little bit of fear in this regard. I think qualified engineers, no matter who is paying them, are going to do their job right on this. I think we have to be fair to them. I need to read the new guidelines to be absolutely sure, but it would be unfair to spread fear. I take the point regarding the guidance on funding. We have to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (22 Jun 2023)

Damien English: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the progress of the Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022; to outline the engagement at ministerial and official level with the credit union representative bodies this year on the Bill; the way in which the Bill will assist the modernisation of credit unions and help to future-proof financial services for their members; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (22 Jun 2023)

Damien English: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, by county, in tabular form, the name of each credit union, the euro amount of assets for each credit union, the euro value of loans on issue by each credit union, and the loan-to-asset ratio in each instance; how he envisages additional lending by credit unions to be enabled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29815/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Missions (20 Jun 2023)

Damien English: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a report on the Ministerial Trade Visit to Money2020 Europe 2023 in Amsterdam; the way in which he supported the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to achieve their objectives on this visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29817/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Bodies (20 Jun 2023)

Damien English: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland’s bid to host the new EU AML Authority; if Ireland having a strong AML, legal and administrative framework will assist in this bid; the next steps that will be taken in order to advance Ireland’s bid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29818/23]