Results 16,221-16,240 of 32,593 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: Access to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund is a policy area for the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation. She has had wide-ranging discussions with the Commission about the various kinds of supports that might be needed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: The provider of the majority of resources in the early days of a disorderly Brexit will have to be the Irish Government because we are fundamentally responsible for looking after our own economy and our own citizens. The main support we will quickly need from the European Commission will be the sufficient policy flexibility to make funding available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: From the discussions I have had with the Commission to date I believe there will be. The Commission's intention is to support Ireland in the various challenges we could face. In regard to what we will do for SMEs, we will do all we can to provide support and help to different parts of our economy in the event of a disorderly Brexit. I do not want to understate just how challenging and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I know much of that thinking is going on in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which is involved with the part of our economy that would be most severely affected, including those who work in our food and food export business. It has done a lot of work about how that would happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: The main provider of support for any economy in a shock like that will be the home Government. We will need flexibility from the European Commission in a number of different areas. It is possible that there will be a need for additional support from it. The main area in which we are most likely to have to deal with that will be the export of food.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: All I can do is reassure the Senator that, in those circumstances, we would move with all the speed that we can to provide support to those who are in difficulty. I emphasise that no matter what support we can supply, a disorderly Brexit will pose a significant challenge to the Irish economy. That will mean change for all who are affected by it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: Capital expenditure for this year is up by 24% compared with a year ago. I hope it will become clearer that the decision in budget 2019 to target such a large amount of additional capital expenditure in this year was the right year to choose for the Irish economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: My understanding is that they are included in the €1.4 billion but I will double-check that for the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Health has outlined other contingencies that could take it up to €1.7 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I am reluctant to give that absolute assurance now because we have a work and review under way, particularly by PwC, that will help me to answer that question better.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I have respectfully to take a different view from the Chairman on that. I acknowledge the learning that we have from this project and, as others have, I highlight the importance of the project. I have much engagement with the Department of Health with regard to different figures that turn out to be right or which we are able to verify.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: As the Chairman just said, we have many other projects which come in as expected and on time. I am gravely concerned about the scale of the additional cost for a project this big and have to be involved in the management of it. From the moment at which I became aware of the issue and its scale, I had a significant amount of engagement with the Department of Health on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: It will be the Department of Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: No additional money will be made available for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I believe that is subject to the number of days involved in doing the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I doubt it, given what has happened here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: I am taking the Chairman's question seriously. I did not smirk when I responded-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: It was a serious question and it was treated in a serious way. My understanding of the contract is that it will be structured with regard to how long it will take to do and we will yield the cost at the end of it. I do not expect that there will be any overrun in delivering that report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Health and PwC are working on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Paschal Donohoe: It will be shared with me when they reach agreement on it.