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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Would he challenge them in the courts, on the basis that the amnesty would contravene the Good Friday Agreement and the Stormont House Agreement?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Sure. As for the relationship between Britain and Ireland, that relationship has reversed significantly in recent times. Britain actually started to take unilateral decisions with regards the relationship between the two countries. It would not be unusual for a participant of an agreement to state that they would seek to uphold that agreement up to the point of even using the courts to do...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am going to be stuck for time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Strengthen our message, surely.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The majority of the people in the North of Ireland voted for the Good Friday Agreement. Most polls show that a majority of people of the North support the protocol or could live with the protocol. The DUP is a minority party and unionism is now a minority political view in the North. I believe the DUP has put itself in a strategic cul-de-sac at the moment. At every juncture of Brexit, it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Has anybody in the Department of Taoiseach or any other Department been in contact with Conor Murphy, the Minister of Finance in the North, to discuss creating an all-Ireland rate of corporation tax? I understand that the North now has the ability to institute a corporation tax and potentially to equalise that rate with the South, which obviously would be a massive boon for the development...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: No, I believe it has the ability to seek the devolution of it. It has not sought to do it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: On a change of topic, the Government has promised an investigation into its approach to dealing with Covid over the past two years. Aontú will shortly bring a Bill to the Dáil to investigate what happened in nursing homes and hospitals over that time. The majority of people who died from Covid caught it in those locations. I would like details on that commitment. When will those...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Will we have settled on a model and terms of reference by the end of 2022?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There is quite a bit of information starting to emerge relating to the cost of Covid-19 and the restrictions. Do not get me wrong, as I understand that governance in this period was extremely difficult. The issue was live and it was very hard to make decisions, as information may not have been fully at the disposal of the Government. There is much information coming out now on the massive...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate the vaccines played a very significant role in the protection of life, especially the life of older and vulnerable cohorts. The truth of the matter is that the Omicron variant spread at a rate of 500,000 per week towards the end of the last wave. In many ways, it is the spread of Omicron through the population that led to it having nowhere else to spread. That contributed to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I will not take long with this. We are talking about an approximate €100,000 increase in salary over a period of a year for one individual with no process or international benchmarks. Last week the Minister said this was an isolated incident that will not affect other salaries but how can we say to people seeking wage increases in the next year due to cost of living hikes that wage...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister will agree with me that holding Ministers to account is very important. Sometimes it is hard to do so in this institution because Ministers move on from one Department to another. A whistleblower, Sharon Butler Hughes, has received documents under freedom of information, FOI, from the Department of Health which basically amount to reams of notes that are fully redacted. These...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand it is not related, but usually the Minister is very forthcoming in talking about health service issues.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I would just like to put that question of accountability to the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who were granted a SUSI grant in each of the past ten years by county in tabular form. [6315/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am sorry to break up the love-in here. Documents released to Aontú under the Freedom of Information Act reveal emails sent to the Minister by students who were refused SUSI grants. Homeless students, orphans and students who are full-time carers of their parents are all emailing the Minister on this issue. Why is the Department refusing to give these people the SUSI grant?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (8 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The SUSI grant system has let down homeless students who have been refused the grant. If a system is not providing a grant to a student who is homeless, then it is absolutely broken. There are inadequacies and discrepancies. Many families are caught in that gap just above the threshold but still finding it increasingly hard to pay the fees. I know of a number of students who had to take...