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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I do not think I will have time.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: Perhaps the witnesses would like a break. I know it is after 7 p.m.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for staying back. I sympathise with the views of the INOU on supporting the return to work. I do not think we are generous enough about that. I concur with Ms O'Brien about the back-to-work enterprise allowance running out after two years. I have experience of that in my constituency. Individuals need a bit of time if they take that route. They may have the genesis...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I will give one example, if I can, of a young man in his late 30s who was doing X. I went to him because a church that was not in my constituency was looking for kind of a jack-of-all-trades caretaker for a small church and small school. He was the first person for it. He was trustworthy and all the rest of it. He just could not do that without entirely leaving. What this called for was...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: That would not-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: That is a fair point.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the Chair and my colleague for bearing with me. One of the things we did in the last term in the Committee on Budgetary Oversight was make the Government really conscious of equality budgeting. About three years ago, when the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, was Minister for Finance, that was the first time there was a paragraph introduced in it. Ms Murphy's comments are a reminder that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. Do they have any views, even anecdotal, on what has accounted for the disappearing workforce over the period of the Covid pandemic? Have those gaps been filled? Where do we stand on that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I get all that, but then why were we so short-staffed?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I will keep my questions short because we are time limited, and if the witnesses could be tight as well on the answers, I would appreciate it. I refer to the digital and tech sector. I passed by Grand Canal Dock and there are the corporate headquarters and the Google buildings. I do not mean to single them out. It struck me that everything has kind of come to a standstill there. I could...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: Both IBEC and Chambers referenced improving the tax base and broadening it. What is their view of the 30% tax rate that is mooted in particular quarters?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: What would Mr. Talbot think of a 30% tax rate?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: This is my second term on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I spent almost the entire period of the previous committee trying to persuade the Minister to put corporation tax aside and it was not done. The Minister for Finance put €4 billion aside yesterday or the day before. Different political hues make a difference politically. That is a political point and I am not inviting...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: I saw that 42% of our energy in January came from wind.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: On that aspect, why is it complex that businesses would pay the landlord for energy?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: Could the landlord avail of this support?
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ambulance Service (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if ambulance drivers are governed by the same working time directives as other workers employed to drive vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5734/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (8 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: 131. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a company (details supplied) has retained for its own use any element of its former or current budget allocation for its former orchestra, either on a once-off or ongoing basis; the costs and expenses that have arisen, or are anticipated to arise, in the transfer of the orchestra to the National Concert Hall; if she will...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of Irish patients suffering from sleep apnoea in the State, by HSE CHO area, in tabular form. [5107/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2023)
John Lahart: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients who are waiting for a sleep disorder screening appointment, by HSE CHO area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5108/23]