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Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat.

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. Your time is up.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the witnesses for coming. It has been very interesting so far. One of the very interesting things that was mentioned a few times is the responsibility the committee has to look at how the budget overspends, etc. One of the things I found particularly frustrating at this committee in the previous term is Ministers would come in the week before the budget talking about figures that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Apologies, but I am conscious of time. The G7 and the announcement a few days ago regarding the US and pillar 2 were mentioned. Does IFAC have any concept of what the impact of that could be? Is that too-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. It is interesting times ahead. Table 1 of the fiscal assessment report identifies sectors such as pharma, ICT and others being impacted by tariffs. Drinks and food are identified as being the worst hit, which we can understand. We have heard from different sources, such as the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, that pharma is unlikely to be impacted based on the fact that it has not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: How exactly was pharma identified? Where was the risk coming from there?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is just that IFAC stated some sectors are likely more exposed to tariffs than others. Pharmaceuticals was one of them. Those companies are saying that it will not be included in tariffs. IFAC just means that as regards the global trend and the economy broadly tariffs could have an impact on pharma.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Conroy for that. It was mentioned that the tax base has narrowed. There can be a lot of conversation about that. This might be a policy question but I will ask it regardless. Does IFAC believe there is scope to increase taxes on institutional property funds, given that these funds already benefit from a whole host of uncosted tax expenditures? Who wants to jump first?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is a good diplomatic answer. Uncosted tax expenditures in general probably need to looked at. I will come back in for my second round.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I want to talk about public procurement, which I have an interest in. It is madness how little information we have on the spend. We are talking about a yearly spend of €22 billion and we do not have information on it. This was one of the first things I noticed when I was first elected to the Dáil. I find it crazy that the level of data on and oversight of the spend is really...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Fair enough. The issue is the lack of data. I had a Bill in the Dáil last week and it will be voted on tomorrow night but has been pushed down for two years. It is about the whole concept of having the data at least. It not necessarily saying that everything is going to be an overspend or anything like that. It is about the fact that if we are spending that amount of money in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports in place for victims of domestic violence to access emergency accommodation in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of man-hours devoted to preparing the draft the inland fisheries (modernisation and consolidation) Bill by his officials since 2013; if the draft Bill has been subjected to an appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive in addition to a regulatory impact analysis; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Departmental officials support the conservation of invasive pike (esox lucius) under the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law (No. 809) 2006; if the species is discovered in Lough Inagh, County Galway and Lough Melvin County Leitrim both of which are special areas of conservation protected under the EU Habitats Directive;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the inland fisheries division of his Department will be a viable entity into the future considering how dysfunctional inland fisheries policies are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Inland Fisheries Ireland in conjunction with his Departmental officials are continuing to prepare retrospective appropriate assessment screenings under the EU Habitats Directive for the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-Law (No. 806) 2006 and the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law (No. 809) 2006 in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the internal review of the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-Law (No. 806) 2006 and the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law (No. 809) 2006 will form part of the Western Lakes Management Plan or be treated separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the change in name of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that public bodies are compliant with their obligations for disclosing procurement information, in light of the Information Commissioner's ruling (details supplied), if he will be reminding this body of their obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of any supports and grants for people of limited means or with disabilities to fix damaged driveways in instances where these fall outside the council’s roads and footpaths remediation works programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35907/25]