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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a lot more questions but I have a final one in this round. On the issue of climate change and the warning in the council's March report about the potential for €26 billion in fines. Mr. Coffey stated in the opening statement that this would be a colossal waste of taxpayers' money and the equivalent to €5,000 per person if the Government does not take effective action....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Following on from that line of questioning, it is striking that in the opening statement and in the work that was done in the 2023 paper on infrastructure, the IFAC has assessed that Ireland's infrastructure is about 25% behind our peers, those being, other high-income countries like Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There is an issue around sustainability if we are relying on windfall corporation taxes for day-to-day expenditure. In terms of the risk that is posing to the economy, if the intellectual property shifts and the profits are being paid elsewhere, that corporation tax is not available any more. We are then in a situation of having to cut day-to-day expenditure on services and people are -----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Current spending would have to be cut if we were reliant on corporation taxes to fund it-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It would have to fall if the money was not there. If we are reliant on corporation windfall taxes to fund some of our current expenditure and they dry up, then we do not have a political choice on it. The money is gone and we cannot fund those current services.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the proportion going into current and capital spending, is the IFAC of the view that we have got that right, given that we are lagging behind other countries? That is a key budgetary issue.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he read a report (details supplied) looking at the implications of the proposed e-liquids product tax, which has identified potential flaws in the self-declaration model; his views on this report and its findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the teacher allocation in a school (details supplied) where the pupil intake has increased since last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what recourse is available for a parent where their child has additional needs child and is not receiving the agreed weekly hours with a special education teacher in school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35614/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Scheme (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 417. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation regarding the pension scheme of retired An Post workers (details supplied); and the outcomes of this discussion. [35153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Uniforms (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance will be means-tested with regard to foster care families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that alcohol is included and made a priority in the new national drugs strategy; if she will arrange to meet a coalition group that made contact with her office (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Product Labelling (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 789. To ask the Minister for Health whether alcohol warning labels will be introduced in May 2026 as planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (26 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address the inconsistency in advertising (details supplied) under the labour market needs test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35093/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the substantial investment projects planned for north Dublin to improve the range of services and amenities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35014/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the progress of legislation to prohibit sex-for-rent exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35092/25]

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: A key function of the local property tax is not simply to collect revenue, but to fund local services. That has been clear from the outset. If the point is to fund local services but people do not get those services where they live because the local authority has not taken their area in charge, then of course there is a strong rationale for the way the local property tax is designed to...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: That would be telling. People move in and think it might be a year or two. There is a lot of frustration at local meetings in my constituency that I have attended. People moved in when they had no children and their children are now getting to the stage where they will be moving out soon and there has been no progress. This has to be tackled.

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Insertion of new section 10E into Act of 2012 5. The Act of 2012 is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 10D: “10E. A residential property that is in an area that has yet to be taken in charge by a local authority shall have a 50 per cent reduction applied...