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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have heard enough bluster on this issue. The Government made a commitment in writing, in black and white, to reduce student fees. Will the Government uphold that commitment?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister answer the question concerning what fees will be in September?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What will fees be in September? Will they be €2,000 or €3,000? This is the fourth time the Minister has been asked that question so could he give a direct answer to that question? What will students and their families be hit with in September? Can the Minister answer that question? In terms of dismissing things, it seems as if this Government is dismissing what it promised...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I want to follow up on the point that has just been made. Much of what the witnesses are saying is that, in an overall sense, we have to make responsible choices. We cannot increase spending and reduce taxation all at once. Did Mr. Conroy say that spending on water infrastructure or investment over the years is at average levels?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: What is out of sync though is the demand on that infrastructure.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Conroy saying that what has to be done is either increase investment to meet the demand or make choices on regulating the demand? There have been many discussions on this recently.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is one or the other or we could do a bit of both. On the macro risks to the economy, the witnesses were saying the tariffs are the main risk. Work has been done on potential non-tariff changes that could affect corporation tax receipts. I am thinking of the work done by Dr. Aidan Regan in UCD, and published in the Business Post, on the amount of intellectual property being shored on...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The witnesses have said the potential impact is very large. Does Mr. Coffey have an assessment of the risk of something happening?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a lot more questions but I have a final one in this round. On the issue of climate change and the warning in the council's March report about the potential for €26 billion in fines. Mr. Coffey stated in the opening statement that this would be a colossal waste of taxpayers' money and the equivalent to €5,000 per person if the Government does not take effective action....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Following on from that line of questioning, it is striking that in the opening statement and in the work that was done in the 2023 paper on infrastructure, the IFAC has assessed that Ireland's infrastructure is about 25% behind our peers, those being, other high-income countries like Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There is an issue around sustainability if we are relying on windfall corporation taxes for day-to-day expenditure. In terms of the risk that is posing to the economy, if the intellectual property shifts and the profits are being paid elsewhere, that corporation tax is not available any more. We are then in a situation of having to cut day-to-day expenditure on services and people are -----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Current spending would have to be cut if we were reliant on corporation taxes to fund it-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It would have to fall if the money was not there. If we are reliant on corporation windfall taxes to fund some of our current expenditure and they dry up, then we do not have a political choice on it. The money is gone and we cannot fund those current services.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the proportion going into current and capital spending, is the IFAC of the view that we have got that right, given that we are lagging behind other countries? That is a key budgetary issue.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he read a report (details supplied) looking at the implications of the proposed e-liquids product tax, which has identified potential flaws in the self-declaration model; his views on this report and its findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the teacher allocation in a school (details supplied) where the pupil intake has increased since last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what recourse is available for a parent where their child has additional needs child and is not receiving the agreed weekly hours with a special education teacher in school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35614/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Scheme (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 417. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation regarding the pension scheme of retired An Post workers (details supplied); and the outcomes of this discussion. [35153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Uniforms (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance will be means-tested with regard to foster care families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35495/25]