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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (15 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons currently employed in the film and television industry in the State. [8117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (15 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of workers in the film and television industry that are currently in receipt of the jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit, pandemic unemployment payment or the employment wage subsidy scheme in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8118/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that retired civil servants with qualifying pensions have not yet received the 1% pay increase granted in October 2021 which current civil servants have already received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for FreeStyle Libre that were submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; his plans to remove the age restriction on FreeStyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I will come back to the State subsidies to private rental properties. In total, €893 million was spent on rent subsidies in 2021, including HAP, RAS and long-term leasing etc. Does the Department believe we could reach the €1 billion figure for rent subsidies in 2022?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Given that €893 million was paid on rent subsidies in 2021, does Mr. Doyle believe there is a very real possibility the Department could reach the €1 billion figure in rent subsidies in 2022?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: However, Mr. Doyle could not categorically rule out reaching €1 billion in rent subsidies.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: The overall total for last year comes to €893 million, which is not too far off €1 billion. Mr. Doyle would surely accept that there has been a shift away from building social homes and towards providing rental subsidies to private landlords. That is the idea of HAP and all of that. There is the possibility that a figure of €1 billion in rent subsidies could be reached.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: They are State subsidies spent on private rental properties. That was what was paid out in 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I am sorry but our time is limited. We are at €893 million now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: We are not too far off the figure of €1 billion. It is now the policy to put people into private rented accommodation. I was on Louth County Council back in 2013 and 2014 when that council was chosen to be one of the local authorities to implement the scheme on a pilot basis. Even at that time, it was obvious that the policy was to shove people into private rented accommodation and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: How many people are in receipt of HAP? Can Mr. Doyle tell me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: What is the total number in receipt of rent subsidies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Would we be looking at a figure of 100,000 households now reliant on a State subsidy for rent?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Is that figure of 100,000 households in receipt of rent subsidies correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: So, it is not a stone's throw from 100,000. The reality is that the policy has been to force people into private rented accommodation rather than to build social homes. On the matter of top-ups-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: -----why did the Department not review the area of top-ups when the world and its brother could see that rent was increasing by a substantial amount year-on-year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Given that the Department is looking at reviewing the rent limits and top-up payments for the first time since 2015, knowing the hardship it has put people receiving HAP through, will Ms Stapleton tell me how many tenants are currently paying top-up payments and how much they are paying in such top-ups?