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Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat.

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. Your time is up.

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta.

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Your time is up.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Where else in the world would a building from which a rebellion was led and from which the independence of a country in its entirety was proclaimed be the subject of an attempt by the government of the day to get rid of that historic tradition by having the commercialisation of the building as its mainstay? Would the French commercialise the Bastille? This is one of the proudest buildings...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We have a domestic violence epidemic in this country, North and South. Every single week now in my weekly clinics, women disclose domestic violence to me. Reporting of domestic violence has increased everywhere, including in Domestic Violence Response Galway. It is clear that something needs to change. I understand and recognise that is an enormous task to undertake, as domestic violence...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the witnesses for coming. It has been very interesting so far. One of the very interesting things that was mentioned a few times is the responsibility the committee has to look at how the budget overspends, etc. One of the things I found particularly frustrating at this committee in the previous term is Ministers would come in the week before the budget talking about figures that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Apologies, but I am conscious of time. The G7 and the announcement a few days ago regarding the US and pillar 2 were mentioned. Does IFAC have any concept of what the impact of that could be? Is that too-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. It is interesting times ahead. Table 1 of the fiscal assessment report identifies sectors such as pharma, ICT and others being impacted by tariffs. Drinks and food are identified as being the worst hit, which we can understand. We have heard from different sources, such as the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, that pharma is unlikely to be impacted based on the fact that it has not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: How exactly was pharma identified? Where was the risk coming from there?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is just that IFAC stated some sectors are likely more exposed to tariffs than others. Pharmaceuticals was one of them. Those companies are saying that it will not be included in tariffs. IFAC just means that as regards the global trend and the economy broadly tariffs could have an impact on pharma.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Conroy for that. It was mentioned that the tax base has narrowed. There can be a lot of conversation about that. This might be a policy question but I will ask it regardless. Does IFAC believe there is scope to increase taxes on institutional property funds, given that these funds already benefit from a whole host of uncosted tax expenditures? Who wants to jump first?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is a good diplomatic answer. Uncosted tax expenditures in general probably need to looked at. I will come back in for my second round.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I want to talk about public procurement, which I have an interest in. It is madness how little information we have on the spend. We are talking about a yearly spend of €22 billion and we do not have information on it. This was one of the first things I noticed when I was first elected to the Dáil. I find it crazy that the level of data on and oversight of the spend is really...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Fair enough. The issue is the lack of data. I had a Bill in the Dáil last week and it will be voted on tomorrow night but has been pushed down for two years. It is about the whole concept of having the data at least. It not necessarily saying that everything is going to be an overspend or anything like that. It is about the fact that if we are spending that amount of money in...

Transparency and Social Value in Public Procurement Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: First, I will mention the survey results. The Minister of State mentioned that she dealt with the Dublin local authorities. I cannot remember - I would not say it in this House anyway - exactly who responded in what way but there was a very clear lack of understanding. I am happy to meet with the Minister of State and share my results in a way that shows her how little information is out...

Transparency and Social Value in Public Procurement Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill comes at a timely moment, as I am sure the Minister of State will agree, when her Department has launched a review of the public procurement system. I hope this review will be constructive, that it is not just a box-ticking exercise and that we look at the nuts and bolts of this issue. How the Government deals with this Bill and...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I wanted to speak on this Bill specifically. One of reasons is that when we make new laws, change laws or look at legislation in this Chamber, it is not just about what I think this Minister, this Government or anybody in this Chamber would do. My concern always has to be what future Governments could do. That is an issue that needs to be thought about when we look at dismantling the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 74. To ask the Minister for Health if she will acknowledge that the exclusion of inflammatory bowel disease IBD from the long-term illness scheme is a policy decision rather than a legal requirement, given that section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 does not list specific qualifying conditions but permits the provision of supports to those with a permanent or long-term illness; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 110. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which the long-Covid payments for health care workers will cease; her plans in relation to the closure of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33617/25]