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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Congress is not involved.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The concern that is always reflected back when someone says that it needs to be an elongated process, better signposted and more collaborative, is that if it is signposted things too early, it stagnates. People wait for the beneficial rate. Is that fair comment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: On recommendation 9.6, which is a long one relating to research and development tax credits, the simple question is whether the witnesses believe there is a good sense of what is happening with research and development tax credits now? Is there sufficient budgetary oversight of those issues? Do our guests, as two groups who work in this area, feel that they understand what is happening and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, but it is useful to put them on the record.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: To follow that up, and I do not want to paraphrase Professor Coffey, but would it be fair to say that direct funding might be more efficient for SMEs because, for whatever reason, be it bureaucracy or the labyrinthine nature of some of these tax reliefs, the FDI companies find it easier to access them. I believe Professor Coffey was saying in that session that, in real terms, this relief is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I know we are all blue in the face talking about indexation and Dr. McDonnell knows this committee is very much in favour of indexation. He talked a little bit about benchmarking. Can indexation and benchmarking occupy the same space? I wish to be clear in my own mind. Can the Department do it? What differentiation is being made between them?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has reviewed the possible introduction of an accommodation tax for tourists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional places in a special reading school (details supplied) and in special reading schools generally throughout the Dublin area for children with severe dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 918 of 8 November 2022 and 299 of 19 January 2023, if he will provide the information already sought and not provided in the response to the latter parliamentary question, namely, a breakdown in tabular form of all costs associated with the removal of a row of trees outside Cork University Hospital on 22 October 2022;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of matings in the greyhound racing and coursing industries that involved surgical artificial insemination in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form; the number of those matings that involved the use of semen obtained from a sire deceased at the time the surgical artificial insemination occurred; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons greyhounds trained by a person (details supplied) were allowed to compete at coursing competitions in Loughrea, County Galway and Clonmel County Tipperary, resulting in a win in the coursing derby final, considering that they received jail terms and very large fines in court following searches for illegal substances...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effective date and duration of an exclusion order imposed by Rásaíocht Con Éireann (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8070/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and registered names of Irish greyhound sires that are used to breed both racing greyhounds and coursing greyhounds as confirmed by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8071/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the greyhound derby semi-finals on a programme (details supplied) on 17 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 720. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the Greyhound Derby final on a programme (details supplied) on 24 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8073/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: As the Tánaiste may be aware, the support scheme for free Irish Sign Language, ISL, interpretation for events and services is provided for in the Irish Sign Language Act 2017, although many sections of the Act have yet to be implemented. Half of the public bodies included in a report this year were either not aware of the Act or their responsibilities under the Act. This support scheme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome our guests and will start by thanking them all for their very hard work, particularly during Covid. I know that during these sessions there is often a lot of robust questioning, which is our job, but I wanted to start by saying that the work that Dublin Fire Brigade and the NAS do is incredibly appreciated by people like me. Our guests are at the coalface in terms of dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The first experience for a lot of people calling an ambulance will be actually ringing the ambulance and that is what I want to talk about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Most of us will know this already but for clarity, that area is bordered by Monkstown on one side and Balbriggan on the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Who is the provider for that phone service?