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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: This evening's engagement is with representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Seamus Coffey, chairman of the council, and Dr. Eddie Casey, chief economist. It is always great to have them here. We are looking forward to a discussion on the EU's fiscal rules and the State's medium-term fiscal and structural plan, which was published last...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: As a vote has been called in the Dáil, I propose that we suspend until it has concluded.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: 2 o’clock I thank Mr. Coffey for his opening statement. I open the floor, following the normal rota, and call Deputy Conway-Walsh.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: We will move on. I will give Deputies a chance to come back in again later.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: I have one or two questions myself. I understand the kind of enforcement or pushback that would be put into execution by the European Commission in the event of rules being broken is unclear. Is that unique to Ireland, or is it across all EU countries?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: What kind of enforcement does Mr. Coffey envisage?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Mr. Coffey had mentioned flexibility. It was also referenced with regard to the 2024 budget and the setting aside of the two funds. What is the council's take on the capacity of those to give that kind of flexibility?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland's Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Does Deputy Canney have any further questions? No. Okay, they were pretty much the questions the members and I had. I thank the witnesses for their input and their patience with the votes and everything. That concludes our session. I thank the witnesses for participating.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and will be discussed together.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Seanad amendment No. 1:
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Dillon: There are two parts to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024. The first relates to the amendments to the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 and the second relates to the amendments to the Affordable Housing Act 2021. A Seanad Committee Stage amendment was brought by the Government and passed in the Seanad on 16 October 2024. The Bill has now been...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sinn Féin is not opposing the amendment. However, I must say that a number of the justifications used by the Minister of State in describing the amendment are not factually correct. I would like to give him the opportunity to clarify some of the aspects behind this very specific amendment given that it is a very significant amount of money. The LDA does not have access to over...
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Schedule agreed to.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Title agreed to.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Bill reported without amendment and received for final consideration.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Question put: "That the Bill do now pass." The Dáil divided: Tá, 72; Níl, 53; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Brendan Howlin and Denise Mitchell.
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Tá Cathal Berry, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Peter...
- Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Question declared carried.