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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: With the Cathaoirleach let Mr. Roberts and Mr. Neill in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a really interesting conversation and it is really useful for us for the report we are doing on the constitutional future. I am glad we have had the opportunity to look at this today in such a forensic way. A couple of things strike me. The first is the absolute necessity for the Executive, the assembly and the North-South bodies to be back up and running and operating at their full...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Great. I thank Mr. Roberts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it time for an all-Ireland IDA seeing as the IDA has been so successful in driving FDI here? A recent Invest NI review was interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is welcome. We need a bit more than that. In looking at both of them and examining what they have done and led to in terms of FDI, it is time to look at an all-island structure based on the principles of the vision of the IDA to drive the whole island forward and to try to meet some of the challenges. We did not really develop in terms of procurement and the barriers there but that is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Good luck with that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their statement and report. I wish to concentrate first on health. The opening statement referred to there being "evidence of poor budgeting on the spending side". Professor McMahon pointed out overruns in health, said they were "obvious before budget day" and that despite this, they "were not catered for sufficiently in the budget". I will ask my questions on...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. Running the health service with an in-built deficit on the scale it is now must be considered as well. It is important to note that. What are the practical implications of running the health service with an in-built deficit, rather than having the same amount correctly allocated through the budgetary process? Are there implications for oversight and transparency in that regard? Are...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is okay. It is possible to make an educated guess. Obviously, we see the moratorium on recruitment. That is the major implication facing us. There are others as well, but I take it that is not within the remit of Professor McMahon to answer that question. It is important to state that we do not have a national spending rule; we have a Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil spending rule....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Transparency is a key thing here. We have a responsibility as well as the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to look at this. Every year on budget day we get the 250-page expenditure report. Social Justice Ireland has previously raised the issue of how the information is presented there. In many ways it is a political document. For example, there is a list of measures and costs that have...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it designed to not find the real information? I know Professor McMahon cannot really say that either. Why can you not compare year on year? Why is it less transparent?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: And all the different aspects. I mean the way it is presented.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly, yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I mean.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Do other countries do it the same way? Do they have a better system in terms of follow through year on year?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not just that. Did the fiscal councils offer an explanation for why there is a trend in other countries as well of having budget obscurity or less transparent budgets?