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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I ask Deputy Stanley to be as brief as possible.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I ask Professor FitzGerald to be brief. Deputy Broughan has just joined us but we were just about to conclude. If we do not we will have to take a formal break. This meeting has been ongoing for three hours and-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: Deputy Broughan is very kind. I will allow our witnesses give some brief answers.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: We will let the Department in on the slurry as well.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: We have had a long and good three hour session during which the delegates have fielded a lot of questions from a lot of Deputies. We really appreciate the interaction with them. This is part of our work as a committee and it will feed into our deliberations on and input into the budget. I thank the delegates and Deputies for being here.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as they may interfere with the quality of the sound transmission of the meeting. I welcome Mr. Seamus Coffey, chairperson of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, and thank him for attending today's session. He is accompanied by council members, Mr. Sebastian Barnes, Mr. Michael Tutty and Professor Michael McMahon. Mr. Eddie...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Coffey for his opening statement. As discussed in private session, we will commence with an initial round in which all Deputies will have five minutes for questions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I ask that mobile phones are switched off or switched to airplane mode. I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: Deputy Ryan is over time. Deputies Lisa Chambers, Lahart, Burke, Pearse Doherty, Burton, Breathnach and Cowen are all offering, so that is roughly the order in which I will call them. It is a long session.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy Lisa Chambers and I call Deputy Lahart.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I will interrupt Deputy Lahart for a moment. Regarding questions addressing the same issue, I ask Mr. Coffey and his team to keep their answers as tight as possible on subsequent occasions. I make that request because there so many Deputies who want to ask questions. I call Deputy Lahart.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: There are approximately five Deputies offering and before we started this session we agreed that we would try to conclude at about 3.20 p.m. Even if we run a little bit late we will have between 20 and 25 minutes left and the Minister is due to arrive at 3.30 p.m. The next to speaker is Deputy Burton.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I am sorry-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has made that point. Will the delegates respond briefly to the Deputy's point about the November figures?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has one minute remaining.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: We will now move to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I point out that we are way over time in this session. While I am not going to restrict the final two Deputies, I ask them to be as brief as possible. Even with that, we will still be over time by at least 20 minutes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has about 30 seconds left.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has now gone over time.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I will now draw this session to a close. One of the things I have learned from today is that a thesaurus is a handy tool for economists when they want something different. If they look for a rainy day fund they end up with a prudence account and they can keep on looking to see which word comes next. We thank you for coming in to us today. We appreciate the time and the exchange the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Colm Brophy: I welcome the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe. He is accompanied by Mr. John Hogan, assistant secretary at the Department of Finance, Mr. Keith Walsh, principal officer and chief economist at the Revenue Commissioners, Ms Anne-Marie Walshe, principal officer at the Department of Finance, and Mr. John McCarthy, chief economist, economic policy division...