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- Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: The Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, knows and has spent time in the coastal communities I represent in Galway. We talk about Connemara and the four offshore islands in Galway West where the lifestyle is completely interwoven with the sea and fishing. It really is a way of life. Anyone who is familiar with fishing communities knows the importance of European fishing quotas and of states...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I also welcome the Greybridge Classic Club. I would only love to be part of its Christmas lights run. It sounds amazing. Property tax is going up for people and every household will be hit with a higher bill. Over the course of the weekend, I held a number of clinics - in the city, Clifden and other places in Connemara. At every single clinic, a pensioner came to say they were...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Poverty.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: It does not matter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: So they are liars.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: To deliver the hospital beds.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Cuirim céad míle fáilte roimh na cuairteoirí atá anseo inniu. Before I begin, I take this opportunity to wish the female garda taken to hospital last night a speedy recovery from her injuries. Struggling households were dealt two body blows on Monday. The first blow was that food inflation has reached its highest level in nearly two years. People are being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: We did not give them-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Let us look at what is actually happening under the Government's watch. A total of 300,000 households are in debt with their electricity bills. One in five children is in poverty under its watch. Now today, I have told the Taoiseach two teachers who want to send their child to college - who wants to go to college - cannot afford to send them because of the policies he has implemented...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Tá leithscéalta faighte againn ón Teachta Pearse Doherty, ón Teachta Edward Timmins agus ón Seanadóir Joe O'Reilly agus ón Seanadóir Conor Murphy. We have received apologies from Deputies Pearse Doherty and Edward Timmins and Senators Joe O'Reilly and Conor Murphy. Deputy Colm Burke has also sent his apologies, but he may be able to join us later. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Sorry, there is a vote in the Seanad. I am not sure whether Senator Higgins is okay to miss that but I wish to make her aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I have a few questions that I can start with and then Deputy O'Callaghan can come in again if the Senator is not back by then. Is that okay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I understand the angle the Senator is coming from with her questions. We will try to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Seanadóir. First, I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. What I want to try to do, for my own sake and understanding, is to understand where we are at this time. When the news initially broke, there was a lot of confusion for the general public and for ourselves as to exactly what it meant. I still do not feel fully across it. I want to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I might start with these and then we can go back to the Senator. What responsibility does this include exactly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Which is Luxembourg, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Which is this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I will explain what I am trying to understand. I remember listening to "Drivetime" when there was a discussion specifically on this. The Central Bank released a statement and it was then that the issue of the €1,000 came into the discussion. What is actually fully different, then? There was reference to the responsibility in terms of non-equity securities for less than...