Reminder: Finance Committee seeks submissions on Budget 2015

Committee Chairman Ciaran Lynch said: “The Committee would welcome submissions on the forthcoming Budget which informs its consideration of broader issues of macro-budgetary strategy, balance and impact. The Committee expects that submissions which are focused on specific social and economic sectors will seek to contribute to our consideration of that broader context. For example, where submissions propose increases in expenditure or reductions in taxation, it would be helpful if contributors were to suggest, at a minimum even in terms of general principle, ways in which the cost of their proposals might be met. We will consider any written submissions received and may decide to invite a number of contributors to public hearings.”

Submissions should be addressed to the Clerk to the Joint Committee and received not later than 6 pm on Monday, 16th June, 2014.  Submissions may be made by e-mail to fincom@oireachtas.ie or by post to –

The Clerk,
Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform,
Committees Secretariat,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2.

Further details can be accessed here.

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Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
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Committee Membership

Deputies

Richard Boyd-Barrett, People Before Profit
Michael Creed, Fine Gael
Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein
Regina Doherty, Fine Gael
Stephen Donnelly, Independent
Timmy Dooley, Fianna Fáil
Alan Farrell, Fine Gael
Sean Fleming, Fianna Fáil
Simon Harris, Fine Gael
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
Ciarán Lynch, Labour Party (Chairman)
Michael McGrath, Fianna Fáil
Dara Murphy, Fine Gael
Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael
Aodhán O Ríordáin, Labour
Arthur Spring, Labour Party
Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin
Liam Twomey, Fine Gael

Senators

Sean D Barrett
Thomas Byrne
Paul Coghlan
Michael D’Arcy
Aideen Hayden
Tom Sheahan