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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024) See 12 other results from this debate

Alan Farrell: I acknowledge all of those measures, particularly the temporary measures. I acknowledge of course the nature of them and their careful impact on the inflation rate. However, part of the reason I asked this question was to do with what I would refer to as ongoing creep, particularly in the inflation on consumer goods, services and fuel, which remains stubbornly high. We are 15 cent or 20...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Banking Sector

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (21 May 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Economic Data

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (21 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As the Minister rightly said, there is probably a lag in the data as well insofar as there are 12 months, and interest rates and such are coming down. As the Minister rightly highlighted, businesses have proven to be resilient in that 82% of them said they had no change or had increased their turnover while 88% were either in profit or had broken even. "Resilience" is the right word to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (21 May 2024)

Credit Unions

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024) See 22 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: The time is up.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024) See 18 other results from this debate

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is great that existing insurers are willing to take greater risks and broaden the number of products they are offering people. That will be most welcome. I read an article by Charlie Weston yesterday in which it was stated there has been a 35% decrease in the number of claims and the average award is down by 41%. Most of these major reforms were at the request of the industry. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (21 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. The Minister has taken the trouble to read the reports. I understand the difficulties. Suggestions have been made by the Department of Finance to establish our own database. What progress has been made on that? Let me come back to the decision, which I welcome. Obviously, those concerned are operating in a policy vacuum. It has come from Dáil questions and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (21 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024) See 17 other results from this debate

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not get this. He proceeded with one increase last month, which was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time again. Now he s planning for and has legislated for this increase in 70 days and legislated for a further increase two months later. It is not just those people who are struggling. It is not just the people who have to fill their tanks. Every time they put a litre...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9 o’clock The vacant homes tax is a failure. We learned at the beginning of this year that only €2 million was raised from it and it applied to less than 3,500 properties. That is against a background where the census showed 160,000 vacant residential dwellings, 48,000 of which were vacant in both the 2016 census and the 2022 census. We then have about 20,000 derelict...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024) See 13 other results from this debate

Pearse Doherty: From the figures the Minister has put on the record today, it is patently obvious that he has taken a very good idea from Sinn Féin, although he and his Government resisted it for quite a while. However, when he finally gave in, he made a mess of the design of it. The fact that despite there being 700,000 mortgage holders across the State, only 18,000 households have received the full...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024) See 25 other results from this debate

Claire Kerrane: I met a member of the Defence Forces in my constituency office this week. He has two children with additional needs and his wife is their full-time carer. He has been in the Defence Forces for nearly 20 years. He is renting privately and is one of the fortunate ones in that his landlord has not increased the rent, not yet anyway. However, he understands the landlord will now sell the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (21 May 2024)

Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Debate adjourned.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 May 2024)

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024) See 28 other results from this debate

Alan Dillon: I thank all Members of the House for their input to this afternoon's statements. I welcome the opportunity to add to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien's, opening statement and to highlight some of the key achievements. There is no silver bullet when addressing something as complex as the housing crisis. Through the Housing for All plan, we are confronting these challenges head on and we have...

Visit of Western Australia Delegation (21 May 2024)

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024) See 17 other results from this debate

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Chris Andrews is sharing time with Deputy David Cullinane.