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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Budget Disability Proofing: Disability Federation of Ireland (14 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Lahart has covered much already. I will focus on one or two matters specific to us. Has Disability Federation Ireland received any assessment of the impact of last year's budget on people living with disability? Have any of its member organisations done any such analysis for 2019? That would obviously be critical in helping us with this year. The second issue links to that and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Budget Disability Proofing: Disability Federation of Ireland (14 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I was going to conclude but we have enjoyed the exchange so does Deputy Broughan want to ask anything in particular?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Budget Disability Proofing: Disability Federation of Ireland (14 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their information. It was an interesting exchange and set of questions. I would ask the witnesses to make any additional information they are supplying to any Deputy available to the secretariat to the committee so that we can ensure that all Deputies can access it. I thank Dr. McCarthy, Ms O'Donovan and Ms O'Donnell for their contributions today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: No apologies have been received so far. Today the select committee will meet representatives of the National Competitiveness Council to discuss its latest published report entitled, Cost of Doing Business in Ireland, April 2019. Before doing so, we will go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference affects the sound quality of the recording. I welcome Professor Peter Clinch, Chair, Dr. Marie Bourke, principal officer and Mr. Manus O'Donnell, assistant principal officer. I thank them for making themselves available to the committee today. We are meeting the representatives of the National...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: That was a very interesting opening presentation, on which I am sure there will be a number of questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has enough time if he wants to go ahead.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I am interested in the comparison of price rise points between countries. Professor Clinch has said we are not doing too badly in overall price inflation. However, we have marginal small increases in an embedded high-cost economy. I do not know if this falls into something the National Competitiveness Council considers. We went through a substantial bad period but have now come out of it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: That is an interesting answer. Maybe because of the economic size of our country or because of a number of factors coming together, many sectors in the Irish economy do not seem to realise the damage of high costs. I cannot understand it within industry sectors. It is interesting. My background was primarily in the hospitality industry prior to becoming a Senator. At one point prior to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: National Competitiveness Council (8 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming before us and for their answers today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Breathnach, Lisa Chambers and Pearse Doherty.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Burton has indicated she will be absent for the same reason.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. We are meeting the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, to scrutinise the draft stability programme update, SPU, which the Minister published on Tuesday, 16 April. The stability programme is an important pre-budget update on the Government's budgetary and fiscal planning...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. As usual, we will have an initial round of five minutes followed by a further round of questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Boyd Barrett is next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I am conscious that the Minister will return about this in a month to address it extensively. We can continue then. I have one or two issues to raise myself. As Chairman, it would be remiss of me not to make the point which Deputy Lahart has alluded to. We feel that as a committee that when we make a request of officials from the Minister's Department, they should attend, particularly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. We will conclude shortly. I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank members and the Minister. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. It is particularly appreciated given the scheduling conflicts there were, notwithstanding which the Minister made himself available. I acknowledge the members of the committee who stayed to contribute and involve themselves in our meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the support being provided to local authorities under the community strand of the commemorative programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16665/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Today the select committee will meet representatives of the Economic and Social Research Institute to consider its report entitled, Ireland and Brexit. I propose that we first go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.