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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an organic payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3844/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (30 Jan 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason an offer of accommodation for Ukrainian families has been declined by his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (31 Jan 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next applications for active travel projects will be accepted by his Department from local authorities; the breakdown per local authority in tabular form regarding the funding previously allocated; the amounts drawn down to date; the amounts still to be drawn down and the amounts returned; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (31 Jan 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will create a centralised database for dog microchips; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4588/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided with a travel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4559/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the completion of the N86 Tralee to Dingle Road upgrade is a priority of his; the fatality figures on this road; the reason the progress made on the first phases has not been continued at the same pace; if he understands the challenges caused by peninsular peripherality in this location and the need for modern road infrastructure to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: This question is about the N86 Tralee to Dingle road. Is it a priority for the Minister?Will he provide the road fatality figures he has available for this road? It was making very good progress a number of years ago when different phases of the road were progressing. In fact, when I was in the Minister's Department as Minister of State, I remember opening a significant phase between...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister. I welcome the new bus services as well. They are excellent and it is major progress. With regard to the road, it is very important that we see progress now into 2024. That comes down to the funding being provided by the Minister's Department through TII. It is really crucial that the remaining sections would be allowed to progress and that the tenders would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: It is coming up at people's front doors. Our local councillor, Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald, is constantly raising it with me.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Mr. Tommy Griffin is getting this on the doors at the moment.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: It is really important that this is a priority for 2024.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I welcome that. I ask the Minister to please ensure that this road is on the list when the funding is announced. I am not sure when the funding is going to be announced by TII for the national and secondary roads.I presume it is usually around this time of year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: In the next week or two. I ask the Minister because this is really important from a safety point of view and from a wider general economic point of view. It has been a terrible road over the years. Many people have campaigned for a long time. As I said, it is constantly coming up in my office. People talk to me about it when I meet them out in Dingle and along the way. Tommy Griffin is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that Irish banking customers are getting a good deal from their banks in areas such as interest on deposits, transaction charges, loan rates and other competitive metrics; what engagement he has had with the banks on these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4552/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: This question is about Irish banks and the deals they are giving to customers in terms of deposits, interest rates, the rates they are charging for loans, transaction charges and other issues. It is important that Irish consumers get the best possible deal from the banks, but that does not seem to be the case on a range of metrics. What engagements is the Minister having with the banks on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister for his response. While some signs have been encouraging of late, it is still clear to me that banks have been extremely slow to react. It is always when it suits the banks that they are slow to react. They are not so slow to pass on interest rate rises to borrowers but for deposit holders, those interest rates rises simply are not passed on to the same degree....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister. We could talk about this all day. In the very brief time I have, again I ask the Minister to try to keep engaging with the banks to ensure the best possible outcome for Irish consumers. In regard to transaction charges, we have seen the use of cards and non-cash methods of payment have become extremely popular. It is the norm now. However, it has a cost on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a finance Bill to re-introduce the 9% VAT rate for catering and tourist accommodation, as was done seamlessly in May 2011; if he appreciates the crisis in hospitality at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4551/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Good, I will do the lotto tonight because it is not often we get down to Question No. 154. This relates to the 9% rate of VAT. I have long held the view that to be competitive internationally and within our own domestic economy, the most that should be charged for our hospitality and tourism sector is the 9% rate of VAT. The Minister had a decision to make. His Department does not have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I appreciate there is a range of bills that have to be paid by businesses, as someone who was formerly self-employed and used to pay a VAT bill, I can say there is a huge difference at the end of a period in having to pay €10,000 or having to pay €15,000. Effectively that is what has happened now by increasing from 9% to 13.5% in some cases. I urge the Minister to look at it...