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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy is out of time.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: For clarity, the other members did not go slightly over.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: I now call Deputy Cullinane.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: That is outside the committee's remit. I will stick with those who will continue their questioning here.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has run over time. To be fair to all members, each speaker has only four minutes in the first round. Deputy Lahart has indicated he wishes to ask a supplementary question. Deputy Burton may contribute again thereafter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
Colm Brophy: That concludes today's meeting. I thank all the Deputies who participated. I also thank Mr. Coffey and his team for their ongoing engagement with the committee. Obviously, there are quite divergent political views on the committee. People who look at this from a Government perspective see things as having gone incredibly well over recent years in light of the improvements we have...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: Deputy Ó Laoghaire's knowledge of lines is much better than mine. I do not have a clue. He lost me about half way through his contribution.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: There is very good value in Deputy O'Callaghan's amendments which he has decided to withdraw for now. In looking at something like an arcade which is referred to as an amusement arcade we must consider whether we are regulating an activity that is seen as gambling. I accept the point others involved in the industry make that there is no other activity that is comparable. One can buy a...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: This is at the heart of the point I want to make. As I understand it, the way the amendments are phrased effectively puts a straight end run around the whole licensing process. It is not that we could see somebody doing this but an organisation or entity which fulfilled the criteria for getting a licence would then be able to transfer it to somebody in respect of which there was no vetting...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I have a significant reservation on this. Is the Deputy suggesting that 70% or 80% should go on prizes, and that there is also an operator cost built in? The core reason for its existence, namely, that it benefits the organisation with the licence to run it, is almost zero. As good as it might be for those playing, the Deputy is saying that by the time the prizes are given out and the...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I apologise to the Deputy. I was specifically referring to the other amendment and the question of a 70% prize fund.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I do not see the logic of the provision at all. I do not gamble at all so I may not understand the associated mentality. Surely if somebody wants to have a bet on the generation of six random numbers, his or her convenience point comprises the Irish lotto numbers. If we say he or she cannot bet on the lotto, the most likely next course of action will be to bet on the generation of six...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Bailey. On behalf of the select committee, I express our sympathy to her. Later today the committee is scheduled to meet representatives from the Department of Health and the HSE for a briefing on budget management and the control of health expenditure. Before doing so, we will go into private session to deal with some committee business.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses that interference from mobile phones affects sound quality and I ask that they might be turned off or switched to flight mode. I welcome Mr. Colm Desmond, assistant secretary for finance and evaluation at the Department of Health; and Mr. Stephen Mulvany, chief financial officer from the HSE. They are also joined Ms Louise Carrigan who is the assistant...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Desmond. The committee did not receive an opening statement from Mr. Mulranny, although we did receive a briefing document. Does he wish to comment on that document in the context of the general budget position of the HSE?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: In that case, I intend to progress to the Deputies who indicated, the first of whom was Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy is entering his final minute. We are straying into the area of the Joint Committee on Health, rather than the budget side.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: Absolutely.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: Thank you, Deputy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Colm Brophy: I am going to move on to Deputy Breathnach.