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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: When will we see the new strategy?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Without an audit we will find in the coming years that some services in other Departments should rightly be in this Department and its work as an umbrella Department for disability will be hamstrung by the continuing presence of those services in other places.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: They should but it is also very important that there is a legible point of access.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in protecting themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. They are strongly advised to practise good hand hygiene and to leave at least one vacant seat between themselves and others attending. They should always maintain an appropriate level of social distance during and after the meeting. Before...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Thank you Mr. Barnes. Deputy Doherty is our first speaker.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Deputy is well over time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. For a second, I thought he might conclude before his time was up. I might have won a bet.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I call Deputy Michael Healy-Rae next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: A vote has been called in the Dáil but Mr. Barnes may answer the question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The meeting is back in public session. I thank everybody for their forbearance. It can be tricky when there is a vote in the House. Deputy Durkan still has eight minutes left in his allotted time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will allow members to come in with other questions. I ask members participating online to raise their hand. We talked a little bit about debt. Can we expand on that? Obviously we are in an especially volatile global situation right now. I notice that some of the language in the council's submission is similar to the language at which we have been looking for two years insofar as it is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is a very helpful answer. I am aware that some countries are dealing with an issue around access to cash. I notice that some of the council's work is based on looking at ATM transactions. There seems to have been a transfer of access to cash facilities from banks to private companies. In terms of access to data, how happy is the council with the idea that transactions such as that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Obviously, many transactions are now carried out on cards which might not have been previously. While I cannot speak for anybody else, many people do not carry cash in the way that they did previously. Many people in my community live a mostly cash-based lives because they are in receipt of small sums of money. Is there a problem with the data from that aspect? Will they truly reflect...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is interesting as a change and it is also interesting in terms of the data.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is everyone happy? I do not see further hands up online. Everyone is quiet. That leaves me to thank our members today. I apologise for the interruption of the vote but these things happen sometimes. It has been an incredibly useful session for us. We got a huge amount of information, which I am sure we will be drawing on in the next few months as we lead up to the budget. It has been...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Can we all stop referring to my committee meeting as a party? I do not hear that of any other committee.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will bring up Deputy Durkan's point with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. It is a good point. I too have noticed that throughout the session it has been a problem, with people cutting out and speeding up. I take that point. I will refer it back to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. The next public committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 15 June at 5.30 p.m.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that his Department is taking to curb new sales of larger cars given the environmental and road user safety issues with such vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects red light cameras to be rolled out following the successful trial in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30619/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to protect housing assistance payment households from poverty and homelessness; his plans to address the five proposals outlined in the campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29610/22]