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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: The witnesses are advocating an increase in the employers' PRSI.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I do not know the views of other Deputies but the feedback I get, particularly from smaller and family-run businesses, is that they struggle. The PRSI they pay is one of many costs in running a business. It is difficult to strike a comparison between this jurisdiction and other states because perhaps their VAT rates, rental or wage costs are lower. There is an overall context regarding the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: We certainly need money.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Our biggest sources of revenue are income tax and corporation tax. If jobs and industry are affected, we will lose ground in those two areas. If we increase employer PRSI, we could very well lose the same amount gained or even more, ending up worse off by making such moves. We must be very considerate in any suggestion we make. Any suggestion of an increased tax on business can have the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: The lifestyle they would like.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: They are thinking it is not worth their while.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I agree with Ms O'Brien. I would like to see further discussion on the social welfare inequality, as it were, for younger people. Let us call a spade a spade, the measures were brought in because we were broke, we needed to save money and this segment of the population was the group that was least likely to vote and affect Government. That is being very blunt. As the country recovers and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I was not looking around the room. Three of the youngest Deputies in the Dáil are here at this committee meeting.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Fianna Fáil opposes the Bill. I see possible issues with the proposed amendments. In respect of the amendment of Article 28, in the event of an international emergency where the UN Security Council has unanimously approved a humanitarian intervention involving military forces, it could mean that the Dáil would have to be recalled so that planes might refuel at Shannon Airport. We...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: 240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the roll out of broadband will take place in Belcarra, County Mayo (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36636/16]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (24 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: The Minister of State and his team are most welcome and I thank them for their presentation. I know that all of my colleagues have touched on the work of the Passport Office. It is interesting that the Department is seeking an increase of €5.001 million, with €5 million being offset by the increase in revenue from the Passport Office. That is direct evidence of the work it is...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: The national maternity strategy - one of the various commitments relating to improving our health service in the programme for Government - launched earlier this year. This was followed by a report on midwifery numbers which suggested that in order to implement the report, we have to move to a midwife-to-birth ratio of 1:29.5. The latter would require the appointment of an additional 450...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I thank Deputy Casey and the Ceann Comhairle. It goes without question that Fianna Fáil supports rent certainty. We have put that fact on record on several occasions. The problem with this Bill, as we have told those in Sinn Féin time and again, is that it is too simplistic and only addresses one aspect of the problem. In fact, there are many aspects to this problem. We need to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Before Dr. Healy replies, I ask that we take all the questions in one go. I have a meeting to get to that started 20 minutes ago and it is taking a lot of time for people to make a contribution. That is not specifically directed at Deputy Ryan. I just want to get my questions on the record, but I really have to run. Dr. Healy referred to the need to have an adult conversation. I put it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Undocumented Children: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I apologise for being late, but I am aware of the organisation and have read the documentation that it forwarded to the committee. Like Senator Freeman, I wish to clarify the situation in which people find themselves. When people come to Ireland on work visas, are they restricted in how much they can work? The witnesses referred to €41 million lost to the State in revenue, but they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Undocumented Children: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Is Ms McGinley suggesting automatic residency or automatic citizenship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Support Services for Family Law Courts: One Family (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. The organisation does fantastic work. I know the difficulties families go through in these situations. In my previous life I was a lawyer and I did a lot of family law work. I have seen at first hand what children go through when they go through the courts system. Very often, unfortunately, parents tend to forget the impact their conflict,...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary)
Vote 36 - Defence (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I apologise for being late. I was in the Chamber. I very much welcome the increased expenditure on the Naval Service and clearly it is required given the other three vessels we own are approximately 30 years old, which is quite old. I have a concern about how it is to be financed. It says in the documentation that it is being offset by an underspend in two other subheads. A saving of...