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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: How many children are located in special emergency accommodation that is unregulated and staffed by unvetted staff?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that this question is new and I am sure it is not part of the Minister of State's background brief. It is part of the background brief of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. In my view it has been linked with the situation where Judge Dermot Simms, who has since retired, wrote a letter to the Minister with four reports that give information...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Job Creation (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Taoiseach how many new jobs have been created in County Meath in each of the past five years. [33723/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Job Creation (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I raise an important issue relating to jobs in my county, namely, that of Tara Mines. Tara Mines has been closed since early June. Three months later, there is no word on the mine reopening. It is by far the largest employer in County Meath. It is estimated that about 2,000 jobs currently depend on a functioning mine, and this is especially important because Meath has had a lower...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the national statistics board under his Department. [33727/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: They have been trying to.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This issue has been raised for a year now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: A key public meeting on the issue of crime and antisocial behaviour will take place in Navan next Monday. The Minister for Justice has been invited but has not responded yet. Throughout the summer, citizens and communities have been shocked by the increase in violent, unprovoked attacks on our streets. Citizens are not just in fear at night time but often in the middle of the day in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus gabhaim buíochas leis an nGobharnóir as a chur i láthair inniu. The Government itself controls the prices of some products. For example, the Government increased excise on petrol and diesel on 1 June. It did the same on 1 September. It plans to do so potentially at the end of October. It plans to put up carbon taxes in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Would it be possible to get it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government plays a significant role in causing inflation by these types of decisions as well, and it would be interesting to quantify exactly what proportion that is of the total inflation rate. It has been reported that real incomes fell in 2022. They fell significantly in the lower deciles of incomes within the economy. Has the Central Bank forecasted if real incomes will fall...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2023. Does that include right across the income spectrum, or might there still be an income fall for the lower quarter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. The Central Bank has given warnings in respect of Government spend and the influence that that will have on inflation. The Government has committed about €165 billion into capital investment in the national development plan. Much of that investment is sorely needed because of infrastructural depreciation and capital depreciation over the past ten years. Do the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I suppose the aggregate figures in many ways do not lend to differentiating policy decisions. Some infrastructural investment would actually decrease the restrictions that exist and the tightness of the market in the long run, which would allow for inflation to decrease in that space. Also, workplace planning, trying to get more particular skills into different sectors of society, even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In other words, there is room for manoeuvre in a number of ways for the Government in trying to achieve its objectives while not negatively affecting inflation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Good stuff. As for deposit interest, Mr. Makhlouf mentioned that there has been a yawning differential between interest rates charged on lending vis-à-visinterest given on deposits just in recent times in Ireland. Does that not make the argument stronger for significantly increasing the banking levy on banks? Currently, I understand the banking levy takes in about €87 million,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I will leave it at that. Perhaps the competition issue could be dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The final part was that one of the big weaknesses we currently have in the banking sector is the lack of real competition. What is the Central Bank's view on what steps could be taken to increase competition and therefore increase the competitive dynamic in the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I will be quick because I have to run to the Chamber shortly. The major issue in taxation is revenue collection, although economic justice is also relevant, to ensure all aspects of society pay a fair contribution in respect of the profits they make. Some of the issues around the differential between interest rates could be resolved if there was proper competition in the sector. One of the...