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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: I will allow a very brief answer to the Deputy as I want to be fair to Deputies Burton and Ryan. I will be very brief on both points. To answer the first question, it is partly because of companies' idiosyncratic strategies or profits but it is also because of international developments, such as BEPS, that potentially affect all or many of them at the same time. With regard to the issues...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: That was covered earlier.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: No, the Deputy may not comment further. The rules are the same for everyone. A Deputy may come back in where his or her five minutes have not been used. However, once the five minutes have been used, I must move on to the next member, following which I will come back in a second round. I can come back to the Deputy in approximately 20 minutes, if she wishes to wait. In fairness to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: I appreciate that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has a small amount of time if he wants to follow up.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: In the few minutes we have left, I want to let Deputy Burton back in. Deputy Eamon Ryan is finished. I call Deputy Burton.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: We have to finish before 4.30 p.m.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: I want to let the witnesses respond.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Minister agreed, or commented, at our last meeting that the monthly meetings of the oversight group between the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would be public. I refer to the monitoring group. That information is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, so those meetings might as well be public. I agree with Deputy Burton.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)
Colm Brophy: It is an amazing situation that one Department - and I know the amount is one third of what it was last year - cannot manage a budget. It begs some of the questions raised. I am conscious that we are bang on coming up to 4.30 p.m. I thank all of the members of the committee involved in the questioning. I also thank the members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council for coming in to us for...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (26 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the powers he has to direct the Central Bank to change or modify its macroprudential rules. [48600/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Special Savings Incentive Scheme (26 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the special savings incentive accounts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48621/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents Data (26 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: 412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of pedestrians with physical or intellectual disabilities killed or seriously injured over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48619/19]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: The committee will meet the Minister for Finance at 2.30 p.m. Before that, we will go into private session.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: Before I begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. I welcome the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe. He is accompanied by officials from the Department of Finance, Mr. John McCarthy, Ms Anne-Marie Walsh, Ms Deirdre Donaghy and Mr. Paul Cotter, and officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive opening statement. A number of Deputies are indicating that they wish to contribute, the first being Deputy Breathnach.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: That is a substantial list of questions for the Minister.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: Has anyone else indicated?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: It has been touched on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex Post Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Nov 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive engagement with us today, which is very much appreciated by us.