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Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Sometimes, I come to the House and I am not exactly sure of the relevance of individual Bills or of what negative point the Opposition might make that day. The Opposition could not make a negative point today because this Bill speaks to the core of something we talk about in the country so often. We talk about money being spent, who spent it, why it was spent, who is to blame and where the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I wish to raise the issue of safety on our roads and, indeed, footpaths in relation to e-scooters and e-bikes. Last week, while coaching our under-14 hurlers in Leixlip, I noticed that there was an ambulance and a police car at an incident on the road behind us. I went up to investigate. I saw a nine-year-old boy being carried away in an ambulance. He had been cycling his bike and minding...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: This committee has been very informative over the past few weeks and I have learned a huge amount from the people coming in. It is very good to have the ESRI in as well. I have read through the brief and we received the opening statements. I will ask individual questions, but a trend I have identified is that there is almost a fear coming from the Central Bank, the Irish Fiscal Advisory...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I am just talking about the windfall taxes, because it keeps coming out as a trend.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I will jump in because it was said that wages are rising faster than inflation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I have got the upcoming budget in mind and others have alluded to it as well. Does Dr. O'Toole think the Government needs to pull the brakes regarding current spending?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: The problem with infrastructure is that even though it might be capital, it obviously has a current impact. We can decide we are going to put billions into capital infrastructure but it obviously has a knock-on current impact because it puts more money into the economy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: They all seem to be very much in agreement on this, though. I have noticed that over the last few weeks.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I have a specific question there. It might be too specific and Dr. O'Toole might have the answer off the top of his head. Windfall taxes keep coming up and we all know a windfall is defined as something unusual. Do we have a view on how much of our current revenue is based on these windfall corporation taxes?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: How do we differentiate between what is the windfall element and the current element of it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Things could change, like the tariffs, but obviously some of that would still be there. How much of it is vulnerable?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: It is like a bonus to someone's wages in a household budget. We would not be planning the rest of the year on that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I will ask a couple of specific questions. I could not help but notice during Leaders' Questions what Deputy McDonald said about how our increases in energy costs still remain some of the highest and, in fairness, some other contributors said the same. I also know from my own studies where we are getting our energy from. Is it purely related to the price of gas, because Dr. O'Toole...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: That is the explainer for it. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Okay. I was just interested. As I said, it all made sense from a few different things I read. Sometimes, one wonders why-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Older.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Okay, perfect. If the Chair does not mind, I will throw in one or two other questions. This is the million dollar question, ultimately, and no one probably knows the answer, but what are the witnesses' views on the potential 30% taxes, especially on pharma? Is it a longer-term, slow-burn impact over time where they would see the risk, or would there be any immediate risk?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I am sorry; does Dr. Egan mean a 4% difference or a 4% fall?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: The issues I want to raise today are more general. I might bounce around a few things. I want to touch on an overriding theme that might help me in the future inform how I understand the running of the country and, indeed, how we spend our money. To clarify, the overview of the brief states that the Accounting Officer of the Minister for the Department has a number of key statutory...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I want to clarify that that is correct because sometimes we have a number of different issues. I might use different examples of spending, so I get to understand how we use it. I will use a local example. We are talking about the 2023 accounts. In 2023, the OPW failed to buy the lands at Castletown House. They were purchased by a third party. There was always a question of how much...