Results 19,101-19,120 of 32,865 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the difficulties the Senator is referring to. If the Senator's party had not been so irresponsible in respect of water policy, maybe we might be a little better advanced than we are now on the matter. I am also aware-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I am finishing the point. Senator Conway-Walsh put a question to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I want to answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I am not looking to be condescending at all. I am well aware of the difficulties the Senator is referring to and I have said as much. In the early part of my answer I pointed to the progress that we have made with the challenges that exist. I am making the point, however, that I find the Senator's position ironic. This is something we have to think about. We are making funds available...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: On that point I agree with the Senator. Everyone should have access to the kind of services to which she has referred, including access to decent roads. I know the pressures our rural road network has been under. I hope that with the improved weather, local authorities will now be in a position to spend all the additional money made available to them. Everyone should have access to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of what the Chairman is referring to. I know about the hearings the committee has had on the matter. I also know that the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, has been attending numerous meetings throughout the country on this issue. He is meeting people on a regional basis and looking to meet stakeholders who are affected. I gather he is trying to reconcile what the Chairman is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: We will have the report on community banking published in a couple of weeks. I and the Minister, Deputy Ring, are nearly concluded on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I and the Minister, Deputy Ring, do not disagree on anything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I was not being flippant with the Chairman. Generally, the Minister, Deputy Ring, and I do not disagree and we do not disagree on this report either. However, the report has consequences for another Department. I am working with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, at the moment on the report. The Minister, Deputy Ring, and I are reasonably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: When the Chairman says "SPC", what does he mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: Does the Chairman mean an special purpose vehicle, SPV?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: SPC, is the acronym for strategic policy committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I am not aware of an SPV having to be set up, but I will check that. He is aware that we had engagement with the credit union movement regarding its ability to fund housing. We have made some progress on that. I will have to check to see whether that necessitates an SPV.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: The only information that is available to us comes from the ECB and it is only broken down into resident and non-resident entities. We do not have a layer below that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes, we can get that for the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes. There is a programme under which the ECB can buy Irish Government bonds. That is the quantitative easing, QE, programme. The ECB holds some debt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: I will ask Mr. McCarthy to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: The Chairman put a number of points to me. The issue he referred to is one of the reasons I have asked the Central Bank to oversee an assessment of the implementation of the code of conduct on mortgage arrears. The Chairman has raised this matter with me every time I have appeared before the committee. Even though I have a set of statistics showing that the performance of funds that buy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: On 7 July. The EU will examine it afterwards.