Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)

The Taoiseach did rattle off a range of figures about inflation but did not acknowledge the real hardship people face in terms of grocery prices. I ask him to acknowledge that. Last week, his Government took the decision to lift the pay caps for senior high-paid bankers. Newspapers reported that means, for instance, the annual package of the head of AIB could go from €500,000 to €2 million. Those are the kinds of decisions the Government has taken that may have an immediate effect for people at the very high end of incomes. What has it done about grocery prices and ensuring full transparency on supermarket profits now - not something that is going to happen in the future? Why is there not full transparency now? When will the Taoiseach act on that? Does he acknowledge that the €3,000 per year extra on grocery prices that most households are paying is utterly unsustainable, and that action needs to be taken by the Government now to bring those prices down?

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