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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: It would facilitate the Deputy. We will pause there. Deputy Breathnach is next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: I want to put a supplementary question to that. Surely that figure must be as it stands with the Department every single time?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: May I just ask-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: Do I take it, from what Ms Donaghy said, that it is like the old argument about GDP, that revenue forgone is the internationally accepted norm and standard and that any other way of doing this then becomes highly subjective as to the information on which one relies to make one's analysis - in other words, that the only real bog-standard, acceptable, across-the-board way to keep the comparison...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry for interrupting the Deputy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has just under a minute left.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: Can the witnesses get that additional information for the Deputy and the committee?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: We are reaching the end of the Deputy's time for his first round. Could the witnesses reply to the Deputy, please?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: We will go back to where we left Deputy Boyd Barrett, at the end of his first set of questions. We will start, if Ms Donaghy is willing, with an answer from her.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: Yes, absolutely. I call the witnesses to reply, and I am sure the Deputy wants them to do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: There is a line between policy and analysis.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: It is unfair to push officials into an area on which they cannot give an answer.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: That is similar to what the Deputy covered earlier. I ask him to conclude now.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: We acknowledge that. I thank all the witnesses for their presentations to the committee and for their answers. I know considerable work went into them, which we appreciate. This is a new area for our committee and we hope to do a lot of work on it.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a summary of the guidance of the expert advisory group on the decade of centenaries 1919 to 1923 and the plans for commemorative events for the period. [1754/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Burton. I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones because their interference affects the quality of the sound recording. The committee will proceed in public session before moving to private session after our meeting with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, or in a break which we may have during our meeting with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: A large number of members are indicating that they wish to ask questions. I will follow our usual process of an initial five-minute tranche. If there are additional questions, we will come back to them at a later point. The first member to indicate was Deputy Michael McGrath.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: The members who have indicated so far are Deputies Michael McGrath, Bailey, Lisa Chambers, Breathnach, Broughan, Lahart and Pearse Doherty. Deputies Jonathan O'Brien and Boyd Barrett have now indicated. That is pretty much everybody at this stage. We will work through it. To clarify my reference to "five minutes", it means five minutes for questions from each Deputy. The Minister can...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: There is a phone ringing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Colm Brophy: We might-----