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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: My final question is on capital investment in general. We know the serious problems that Ireland is facing as we enter into a number of decades of demographic pressures. Those problems will present acutely in terms of our infrastructure, for example, the road network. There is a view that investment from the EIB has allowed member states to reduce public investment. For instance, building...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We might not be eligible to apply for the investment clause, but there is a strong argument that we would be eligible to apply under the structural clause, which would allow us to deviate from the mid-term budgetary objective, MTO, by up to 0.5% of GDP, which is a significant level and represents more than €1 billion in public investment, if we can show that the structural reforms to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Dalton and I thank him for his presentation. I shall start by referring to the concern raised by IBEC and a number of multinationals. Am I correct that the regulation just deals with the larger companies or multinationals? I have read some of the minutes on CSO meetings and know a concern was expressed about the definition of an enterprise. It was commented...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. The regulation is still limited to the larger companies. I mean 2,000 companies out of a large pool of companies. The regulation affects the higher level but it does not just affect multinationals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, I appreciate that aspect. When the CSO conducts its surveys and gathers data are all of the companies legally obliged to provide the requested information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Dalton has said the regulation "could seriously impede the CSO's ability to collect important commercially sensitive data from the large multinationals that are so critical to compiling Ireland’s economic statistics." Why? Can a legal obligation not be placed on the companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I can understand where businesses are coming from. Can Mr. Dalton explain to the committee why businesses would have concerns, given that all of the other collection agencies, whatever form they take, will be bound by the same legal confidentiality that currently applies to the CSO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is it not mandatory to provide that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Let us park the issue that some multinationals and other enterprises might not readily give the information to the CSO despite having a legal requirement to do so. Let us imagine that they were providing it to us. Does this improve the situation or not in the medium term? Mr. Dalton has said that in the short term, the CSO will continue to gather export and import data. Six or seven years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I presume other countries are looking at us and saying this is a bit rich coming from the Irish, in terms of our GDP revisions and all the rest. I understand that the data says what it says. The problem is how far we were able to rely on those type of indicators and benchmarks in the past. I presume the calculations are correct. Eurostat has looked at all of this and given the CSO a clean...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Dalton. He has made a strong and convincing case in respect of the impact this would have in terms of our national accounts. We have many challenges in interpreting the data as policy- makers, especially in trying to figure out some of the anomalies we have seen from different data. Can Mr. Dalton comment on the reduction that we are seeing in the unemployment rate, which has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Sometimes as policy makers we do not have the luxury of waiting for 12 months. I agree 100%. For example, corporation tax is so lumpy that we cannot really comment on it for the first quarter or second quarter. Anyway, income tax should be more stable and predictable. The assumptions used to profile income tax should not be so far off in terms of the type of employment and so on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: If the CSO has any comment that it can send to the committee, it would be valuable for us in terms of our scrutiny.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an operation at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21211/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government refers to the national maternity strategy. Many Members of this House are aware that interviews were held by RTE at national level and by some local radio stations with Lisa, who is the mother of baby Eoin, who was born prematurely and passed away in Letterkenny General Hospital last winter. Unfortunately, he was left in a room for up to a month before he was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has conducted a risk analysis of the potential impact to Ireland of reforms in the short, medium and long terms regarding the proposed US corporate tax changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20947/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to revise the favourable tax treatment, and in some cases exemptions, to taxes in the cases of retail estate investment trust Irish collective asset management vehicle and qualifying investor alternative investment fund that have invested in housing here in view of recent CSO data which shows that REITs and private equity companies have purchased...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an outstanding farm payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20946/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 297. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) concerning revisions to the wind energy guidelines; if a response was issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees to date and the anticipated fees paid by a bank (details supplied) to advisers regarding the initial public offerings of the company; the details of the advisers concerned and the fees each one has received; the estimated amount of final fees to be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19178/17]