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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: I welcome our guests. I will set my timer for ten minutes again. If one is around for long enough, one finds that history repeats itself. I worked in Albert Reynolds's Government in 1992 when we had the devaluation and there was precisely what Mr. O'Brien just spoke about, that is, assistance for industry. The devaluation happened and we had interest rates of 15% and 16%, which makes...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. O'Brien for bringing that proposal to our attention. I am taken by it as I am sure are the Chair and other members. If we have time before the budget, I am sure we will look at it. The reduction in the investment by foreign investment funds and pension funds in property in Ireland is a good thing. The witnesses do not deal with constituents. This is not the forum to discuss...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: In what areas?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: Could they with assistance?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I turn now to the witnesses from NERI. I have less time than I thought I would. Several points were made by the organisation's representatives. I disagree with one or two, including the assumption that higher-income households have generally built up significant savings. Is there evidence for that? What is a higher-income household now? Can they put a figure on it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: I have been harping on about apprenticeships since 2014. We are almost at, or at, full employment. There is an issue. The organisations represented here can play a role in the schools in this regard. We are still hung up on university education and we have left apprenticeships behind. The UK is way ahead of us. It set up a commission several years ago and its ambition was that every...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: Will Dr. O'Donnell put a figure on the State pension increase?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: That is what the ESRI has said.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: Is carbon lock-in dependency on carbon fuel?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: Is there an example?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: Mr. Goldrick-Kelly made the briefest contribution and he is going to get the biggest headline.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
John Lahart: That is very interesting and I appreciate it.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made under Pathways to Work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34936/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the Chair. I will time myself. I appreciate the Ministers' willingness always to come before the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. The Ministers have mentioned the significant measures the Government has taken to address the cost of living and that there will be more. One that stands out to me and that I have highlighted is the medical expenses threshold measure which has been cut...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the Ministers.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the design team appointed for the new building of a school (details supplied) will submit the final report on stage 2B of the project that will allow the project to proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38249/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (12 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the proposed free contraception scheme from general practitioners is to work for the young people who are targeted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37513/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (12 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the progress and the plans that are in place in regard to a reduction in the age threshold for breast cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37514/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (12 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the schools at all levels in Dublin south west that avail of the school meals programme. [37622/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (12 Jul 2022)
John Lahart: 1053. To ask the Minister for Health if he will accept a formal invitation issued to him by the Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force to formally meet with the members of the task force as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37998/22]