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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Central Bank push back against the decisions of the ECB in terms of the experience of the Irish economy around interest rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It just strikes me that one of the key components of the big housing crash we had a number of years ago was the fact that interest rates were made low for the German economy's sake and our economy was obviously overheating at a significant rate. The lever the Central Bank would have pulled, in monetary policy, had it had interest rates at the time would have been to cool down the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that there were lots of reasons the housing crisis happened. It would be my view that the ECB would have a closer eye to Germany's needs economically in setting the interest rate than it would in respect of Ireland. That is a another day's discussion but that is strongly my view. There are constraints within the Irish economy. If investment goes in that is too large in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that housing is probably one of the biggest constraints within the economy, would it not be logical for the Government to really focus on increasing the labour supply in terms of housing? Hundreds of thousands of Irish construction workers left for Australia and Canada just after the last crash. If a concerted effort was made to bring home a significant number of those workers, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Is waste inflationary? One of the big issues in this country is the level of waste that is happening. I refer to the overexpenditure on capital projects and budgets running wild, etc. That has an inflationary impact on society. Has the Central Bank quantified whether inefficiencies in capital provision are causing overheating of the economy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. I would like to ask about the exposures of the Irish economy at the moment. I understand that if we stripped out corporation taxes, there would be a budget deficit this year to the tune of €5 billion, which is a significant exposure. One of the people involved in the election that will take place in the United States in a couple of weeks has stated that he wants to introduce a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: In general. Right now, corporation tax is playing a bigger role in day-to-day spending. That has its own exposure profile-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: -----never mind the other elements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have two final questions. I understand that there are still some 60,000 mortgage holders paying inflated rates on their mortgages because they are with vulture funds. What can be done to help those people? We mentioned the bubble and the banking crisis that happened some 15 or 20 years ago. One of the ways credit has increased in the Irish housing sector has been through international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask Mr. Madouros to provide an outline in writing to the committee of what those measures are.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiologists working in Cavan General Hospital. [40401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days over the past year on which there has not been a cardiologist working in Cavan General Hospital. [40402/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiologists currently on leave from their post in Cavan General Hospital; and the number who have taken long-term leave or left their jobs there over the past five years. [40403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to encourage more young people into apprenticeships and trades. [40066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she gave permission for all of the content that was delivered on the SPHE teacher training in DCU from February 2023 to 2024; the reason she believes that there should be no values attached to teaching of SPHE. [39620/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has given permission for students to be told by teachers that confidentiality should exist over what is said in classrooms on SPHE discussions; and if she understands that children should be allowed to discuss with their parents what happens in the classroom. [39622/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has given permission for the OIDE Toolkit to be used in schools; if she supports the idea that students should avoid heteronormative language; if she has given permission for training to be given to SPHE teachers that they should introduce themselves to students using their personal pronouns; if she has given permission for teaching to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (8 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 589. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 556 of 13 February 2024 and 1385 of 9 April 2024, if there are currently subsistence payments due from the HSE to an organisation (details supplied) for intellectual disability student nurses at Dundalk Institute of Technology; if the matter can be resolved permanently in order that such payment is made promptly at the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform about matters relating to a meeting with a person (details supplied) [39495/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (3 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent for each of the past ten years by her Department, or any public body or organisation that comes under the funding or authority of her Department, on external consultants for the provision of either public affairs or communication services. [39499/24]