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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Small businesses and community groups right across the State continue to suffer from unaffordable insurance premiums. The action plan on insurance reform committed that the general scheme of legislation to balance the duty of care would be brought before the Government by June 2021. That deadline was missed. In July 2021, the implementation report committed that the general scheme would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Our economy and communities will be unable to bounce back sustainably from the pandemic unless all sectors and businesses of all sizes can resume activity in a stable and supportive environment. The insurance crisis is having an impact on that. If you talk to businesses, you hear that time and again. Reform is moving at a snail’s pace. The personal injuries guidelines adopted...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 27. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é stádas an bháid farantóireachta nua atá saincheaptha d’Oileán Thoraigh; cén uair a bheidh an bád réidh le seoladh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [8290/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén stádas atá ag an gconradh le haghaidh seirbhís farantóireachta ghasta atá le riaradh idir Toraigh agus an mhórthír; an dtig léi sonraí a thabhairt faoin gconradh seo, mar shampla cén dáta a thosóidh an tseirbhís nua seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the time that was taken to bring the temporary wage subsidy scheme from design stage to its operational phase when it was introduced in 2020. [8898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of studies, research and reviews undertaken or commissioned by him in 2021, in tabular form; and the date by which each study, review or research was completed. [8962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé ar intinn aici deontas atosaithe a thabhairt isteach, cosúil leis an deontas a tugadh isteach do ghnólachtaí eile, do Mhná Tí mar gheall ar na costais bhreise a bheas orthu agus iad ag atosú in 2022. [8973/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plan to have a full-time consultant ophthalmologist located in Letterkenny, County Donegal to address high waiting lists for eye care in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8622/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. I have just a couple of questions with regard to indexation. Perhaps I will start with what happened in budget 2022. Will the witnesses clarify how core social welfare payments were indexed in budget 2022? What methodology was used?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Did any of those proposals include indexation?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Up until now, the Department has never looked at the indexation of social protection payments. Is that correct? It basically just gives the Minister a table showing what it would cost if a given payment was increased by €1 or €2 and so forth. Has it ever brought the issue of need into it? This fiver for everybody is a political decision. It is not based on the needs of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: To go back a step, was any proposal given to the Minister for consideration with regard to indexation to the rate of inflation in last year's budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough because the way the political system has always acted here has been to provide a fiver or whatever it is. It has always been a flat rate rather than being based on need or some reference point with regard to wages or increases in the cost of living. Now that we know where we are at this point in time, with the rate of inflation higher than 5%, by how much would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that. Without those increases, given where we know the rate of inflation to be now, all of those households are going to become poorer this year. An indexed increase would have been €10 but €5 was given. The value of their payment is therefore €250 less over a year. Is that not correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: In fairness, no matter what happened in last year's budget, the fuel allowance will not come anywhere near the inflation facing households this year, which equates to an extra €700. I would say Mr. Lawler would accept that. Where is the Department's head, and that of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, with regard to indexation? We are always hearing Ministers saying...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, that is not indexation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. It is not a policy of indexation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Lawler mentioned the Commission on Pensions, the work done by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice and the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, rate, the rate required just to get by. In terms of the different categories of people, who is further away from those rates? Is it pensioners or, for example, single parents or those depending on working-age payments?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, the MESL rates.