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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Damien English: ...temporary, to drive activity, so those who have planning permissions put them to use. It will be really worthwhile. We can see the figures are well us this year and last because of that change along with all the others as well. The Taoiseach outlined all the different policies there and they are all helping the housing supply. We are often missing the conversation in this House that if...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Damien English: ...I speak today as a Meath person who had the honour of working with John, although, thankfully, not trying to follow in his footsteps because that is impossible. I was lucky to be elected with him along the way. I would have hated to have been coming in after him because that would have been very difficult. People here talked about his energy in debates in this House and his focus and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Damien English: ...who may be watching our proceedings on Oireachtas TV, to the public session of the Oireachtas Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Damien English: ...Adjustment Reserve funding. Turning to the appeals board, I am glad the issue has been sorted out and it is going to be back up and running. Some of these problems seem to drag on a little longer than they should. The most important point, however, is that we cannot get to the stage fast enough where we have this needs-based scheme the Minister talked about. I know he is playing...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Damien English: ...happening if at all possible. On the children's hospital, one point is often missed. Most people comment on this without even reading the reports or the documents. If a decision had not been made to move along with that project a number of years ago, we still would not even be started. Sometimes, we can wait for perfection but get nowhere. Systems were put in place there to deal...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Damien English: ...sector. That is important, because what we are trying to find by means of these various opportunities and incentives is a way to guarantee more work for those involved in the sector, that is, more long-term and more guaranteed work, not just one production and then people might be out of work for a period and hope to be re-employed at some point. If we can develop the overall sector - the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Damien English: ...or house. That is why the 40,000 houses delivered by means of that scheme may not have been built in its absence. I would be against interfering. I absolutely accept the point about looking at long-term supply for schemes. There is nothing wrong with that at all. What we are trying to do with Housing for All is provide certainty to the housing market, which you cannot fix in one...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Damien English: ...any of that but it has made it more complicated. You do see some small landlords deciding to take their money off the table and invest it elsewhere. That reduces the supply of housing in the long run. This is somewhat of an incentive to keep them in the market because we want everybody who was traditionally in the housing market back in the housing market along with more. We are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Damien English: I will not take up the committee's time for too long. Going back to Ms Shovlin's point, this is certainly beyond a fact-finding mission, but it has been a very worthwhile engagement. I hope, as a committee, we can make it worth the homeowners' while. The contributions from the witnesses have been very informative. The knowledge they have brought has been of immense value to us. I was...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Damien English: ...made and driven by Fine Gael and a Fine Gael-led Government to make that happen. Most people in this House outside of the Government opposed it at the time. They could not see the benefit in making that long-term investment in rural Ireland. We could see it, and it has happened. That is making it possible to drive the remote working hubs and strategies referenced by the Minister. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Damien English: ...of observations. First, regarding the previous discussion, it is important that we recognise that if we are to try to fix the housing market, in which the Taoiseach has taken a personal interest, along with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to drive that through the Cabinet committee, we must have all stakeholders and parts of the housing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: ...drafted, and why it could not be supported by the Government. If a person is in receipt of an occupational pension, his or her relationship is with the trustees of the pension fund. The person no longer has an employment relationship with his or her former employer. As the Deputy will be aware, trustees have statutory and fiduciary duties to act in the best interests of all members...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Visa Applications (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: ...to see how we could best respond to a shortage of available talent to work in the home to provide care. The report contained 16 recommendations. If we implement all these recommendations, in the long run, they will be able to deal with a shortage of talent locally through training, initiatives, campaigns and marketing. In the short term, there was a recommendation that our Department...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Visa Applications (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: .... It is about how we can align our systems. We managed to fast track and fix the delays in our Department by increasing the number of staff available, changing some of the IT systems and putting long-term changes in place. The Department of Justice is also making changes in respect of staff and trying to match up with us in our decisions so that is one area where we can improve the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Enterprise Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: ...in our regions and how we can do that best. We can do that best through the structures that are there because we can use our time, efforts and resources to champion that as opposed to spending a long number of years redesigning something else that might not provide anything better. What is key to me is that we continually devise new support mechanisms and schemes and administer them...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: Success in export markets is crucial to the long-term growth of Irish businesses and the Irish economy. Assistance for companies focused on growth through international sales is a priority for my Department and for our enterprise development Agencies. A keen knowledge of the competitive and sometimes challenging environment in which Irish companies operate in is the key to successful...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: ...-2024 and beyond. This includes initiatives to diversify export markets, increase the number of start-ups by 20% and to improve our productivity. The Government is taking a coordinated approach to ensuring the long-term productivity, competitiveness and growth of our SME sector. The SME and Entrepreneurship Growth Plan, which was published last year, provides us a blueprint, directly from...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Damien English: ..., if companies abuse the rules of a self-assessed scheme, Revenue will deal with them when it carries out spot checks. Likewise, where companies availed of Covid supports and it was shown in the long run that they were not assessed properly, Revenue has gone back in and there is a claw-back procedure in place. As to whether a company is in need, the cap will deal with that to some extent...