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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: There are one or two brief points that I would like to ask the panel about. I thank the witnesses for their various contributions on the report. I would like to ask briefly about PRSI for pensioners and also child benefit and child poverty. Chapter 9 focuses on child benefit as it is and on whether it should continue to be a universal payment. There is also the child allowance that a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank Ms O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I am interested in the group in the middle who are not qualifying for any level of social welfare. Many of them are under pressure because they are travelling long distances for work or are under pressure to pay for housing and travel, etc. I am interested to see if there is some way of supporting them and their children. I am interested in whether there are particular thoughts on that. ...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Dr. O'Connor referred earlier to PRSI on earned income and on unearned income, and he made the distinctions on that. That unearned income, whether it is from rent or whatever, is coming to the pensioner who has generated and earned it by working throughout his or her life to create it and paid the tax on it. I am trying to figure out why there would be a distinction there and they would be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank Dr. O'Connor.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Fuíolluisce Poiblí sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Fearaim fáilte roimh ár n-aíonna agus gabhaim buíochas leo as a gcur i láthair. Tá an fhadhb chéanna againne i gceantar Gaeltachta Mhúscraí chomh maith. Tá easpa córais séarachais i mBéal Átha an Ghaorthaidh agus tá sé sin ag cur isteach ar thithíocht mar nach bhfuil deis ag daoine a bheith ina...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Fuíolluisce Poiblí sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Aithním an ciste atá Máirín Ní Choisdealbha-Seoige ag caint faoi. Bhíomar féin á úsáid i gcomhair scéim na bóithre áise, do chórais uisce agus do shéarachas. Ag an am sin, mar a luadh, bhí baint ag an gcomhairle contae leis an gciste toisc go raibh sí ag déanamh na hoibre go minic. An mbeadh Uisce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with all third level institutions in view of the recent cyber breach at Munster Technological University, MTU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6941/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (14 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the current review and appeal process by third level institutions participating with the higher education access route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6942/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I want to raise with the Minister the closure of Munster Technological University, MTU, campuses in Cork due to the attack on IT systems. Have personal data - bank details and so on - been impacted? When will normal college activities resume? Students are losing out in the meantime on lab time, for example, and there is a backlog building. There are 13,000 students and 1,200 staff there....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I will stay focused on the people fleeing from the terrible war in Ukraine. Is it intended that the rest centres will follow a similar model? Will there be more rest centres? What does the Minister envisage being required in the event of more people fleeing? People in, for example, hotels would like to know where they stand. There needs to be communication with them. There also needs...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: As the terrible war drags on in Ukraine, the suffering continues for so many Ukrainians. They are being pushed out of their country and many of them are coming in our direction. What plans has the Department in place to be able to accommodate people? Is the Department proposing to continue with the rest centre model or what is the plan? There is also the issue with people being moved out...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an eolas ansin. There is quite a bit of information on it. Trying to predict how many spaces will be needed or how many people will be on the move fleeing the conflict is difficult, but the Minister undoubtedly has a good estimate of how many people are already in Ireland in, for example, hotel accommodation that would otherwise be being used for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to providing a free travel scheme to all persons with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to deal with the delays in processing of applications for fuel allowance for the over-70s under the new income criteria under the cost-of-living measures introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6160/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the many Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war and currently housed in hotels will be accommodated during the peak tourist summer season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 308. To ask the Minister for Health when the seven-day services will be operational at a premises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6163/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I was listening in on a good bit of the meeting earlier I probably should have asked about some of the things I wanted to raise in the very first time slot. There is a huge range of different recommendations in the report. What would the witnesses identify as particular priorities for themselves? For example, chapter 12 refers to child...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I will go in a slightly different direction and thank the witnesses for the responses. One of the issues I hear time and again from different employers is about the difficulties they have in finding skilled people to do a job. They are searching high up and low down. It could be any range of skills. Earlier today I had the opportunity to talk to a guy who is looking for a mechanic,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Is bringing people in from abroad the preferred option? Is there a way of doing something internally?