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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Dalton believe that this change in 2015 was a direct result of the abolition of the double Irish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does the witness believe this to be a once-off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: For 2015 the CSO produced preliminary figures and the big change came when it produced the final figures. That was on the basis of interaction with multinational companies. The ordinary person looking in will ask why that happened. Did the CSO not consider preparing a publication which stripped out the exceptional items and, almost like a structural deficit, gave a structural GDP-GNP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it not fair to say that net national product is effectively the GNP figure minus depreciation? Therefore, it is just taking out depreciation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: This means that depreciation must have been a heck of a figure for the CSO to pull it back to where, effectively, the growth rate in net national product was so low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have limited time and this is extremely important. The bottom line is that, internationally, we are judged like any other country by the markets and the rating agencies based on the metrics of GDP and GNP. We can talk about the broader question but, for the next number of years, which are critical years for us, we are going to be judged on those two key components. If we have another...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: The CSO would have seen the extreme variance between the preliminary figure of 6.7% and the final figure of 26%. As an independent body, knowing how the markets would react, why did the CSO not give the detail that would allow them to strip out the exceptional items of intellectual property and so on? Did the CSO not present two figures, one being the actual figure and the other being the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: How much of an increase?

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is not relevant to the Bill.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will the Senator deal with the rent certainty aspect of his Bill in the time remaining to him?

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I commend the budget. It recognises that people have come through very difficult times. The rebalancing in favour of spending over tax cuts in a 3:1 ratio is a recognition that we have come out of those difficult times and are now in a position to invest in order to drive further job creation and to provide proper services. It is a family friendly budget for a number of reasons. The...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: A few minutes will do.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I shall leave it to the Cathaoirleach's superior wisdom.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I did not think it was former.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects (6 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister to the House. Once again, I am raising the matter of the upgrading and building of the M20 motorway between Limerick and Cork. I am a public representative, representing Limerick city and a portion of the county. It is the single biggest item of infrastructure that needs to be completed in the State. I have raised this issue with the Minister on numerous occasions,...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects (6 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will go straight to the heart of the matter. In November 2011 the project was suspended. From discussions with officials, I understand that at that stage the bulk of the planning process, if not the entire process, had been completed and that the project was just about to be referred to An Bord Pleanála. Will the Minister allow the planning process to re-engage, which would amount...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects (6 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister. That is a positive move. He will find that the planning process was at an extremely advanced stage and that this would represent value for the taxpayer.

Seanad: Action Plan for Education: Statements (6 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Bruton, to the Chamber. He pioneered the action plan with the Action Plan for Jobs. As a way of a Department doing business, it was revolutionary at the time. He is bringing that same methodology to the Department of Education and Skills. It is slightly different in that the Action Plan for Jobs in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation was very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Costs of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of regulation, is there any difference between Solvency I and Solvency II in terms of the regulation of insurance companies from Ireland?