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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It does. We missed the lasts few sentences of your contribution.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: There is a lot to unpack in those questions. I do not know who wants to take that on first. Who is brave enough? Will I nominate somebody?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Do other witnesses want to address any of those issues?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We are already at the stage where people are seeing astronomical rents and starting to call them affordable. It is appalling, certainly in my constituency. I thank the witnesses for today's session. We are at the beginning of our work on this and I wonder whether some of our questions are very open-ended in nature. I hope they will bear with us. We are trying to get to grips with this...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. O'Donnell. Did Dr. Healy want to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I am mindful we are in an especially volatile, dynamic situation at the moment and the world seems very difficult to track. We have seen all sorts of predictions, particularly within our own system, that have not come to pass. It is hard to predict at the moment.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Maybe we are overly sensitive to that issue at the moment. We are really talking about two areas, that is, the welfare system and taxes. I was wondering if our contributors could explore a little whether we should always be talking about that in terms of the same measure, in that the indexation would always be linked to the exact same measure, or should we be looking at a more nuanced...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Healy. Does Dr. McDonnell want to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I have two brief questions. I see Deputy Durkan is back with us, and I know Deputy Canney wants to come back in. I will get in my two questions because I do not want to take up too much of the committee's time. I will cut to the chase and ask my first question. One of the things I am interested in is how many of our population who are in deprivation or below the poverty line we would...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I do not mind who wishes to come in on it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Thank you, Ms Murphy. I know it is hard to forecast those kinds of numbers, but it is helpful to at least feel our way towards some kinds of numbers. That brings me to my final question. Throughout this session we have dealt with a lot of issues that require a huge amount of data analysis and compilation. The witnesses' organisations both do a huge amount of research, which I rely on...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Do we know what the time lag on those numbers is? Is it the case that the numbers are available for the previous quarter?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Would it be fair to say that we could do with some review or reform of the consumer price index? I notice that they are having this conversation in the UK about the reality on the ground as to what people on low incomes are buying. The UK's consumer price index does not reflect the reality of people on low incomes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Let us hope it is unusual.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Deputy on behalf of mammies. Do any of our contributors want to respond to Deputy Durkan’s points?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Canney wanted to come back in and I will bring Deputy Patricia Ryan in afterwards.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Does that answer Deputy Canney's question?