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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking the Minister about the spending reviews he has not published.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister publish the spending reviews that he has not published?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Parliamentary Budget Office.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish updated spending reviews for each Government Department; the reason for not publishing in advance of budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60444/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister about the spending reviews carried out this year that were not published, as had been the practice in previous years. Why were no spending reviews published in the run-up to the budget? How many spending reviews were carried out this year that were not published? Why has the practice of publishing these reviews been abandoned? Does the Minister agree the public has a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire, but let us focus on spending reviews and 2025, and not all the other things that have happened. The Government has a track record of wasting public money. We need look no further than the bike shed for an example of that. In previous years, spending reviews were published in the run-up to the budget. That did not happen this year. Why not? Why is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: How many spending reviews were carried out in 2025 that have not been published? That is the nub of my question. That is what I want to know. We have been told at the budgetary oversight committee that in the region of 50 spending reviews across Departments - a very significant body of work - have not been published. Can the Minister tell us how many spending reviews have been carried...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh na hoifigigh. On this issue of tax indexation, what the Government parties were discussing during the election campaign was not tax indexation; it was promises about tax cuts, which we have not seen delivered on. We pointed out during that campaign that you could not have a whole range of expenditure increases while reducing our tax take and that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I think it would be best if we could deal with the renter's tax credits and then I can come in after that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is a significant and serious issue here - and the Minister provided some of the data - in relation to existing tenancies and new tenancies. It must be remembered that new tenancies primarily relate to existing rental stock as opposed to new builds. In both cases, where a tenancy changes over, rent increases year after year have broken what is allowable under law. A 2% increase has...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 4 concerns refundable tax credits. According to the CSO 6% of those in employment are experiencing poverty. A refundable tax credit would allow low income workers who do not earn enough to use their full credits to have the unused portion refunded. This would essentially be a cash payment to those who are already dealing with low pay to ensure they do not miss out on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, I welcome the Minister's acknowledgement that there is an issue here in terms of low-paid workers and poverty. Nobody should be in poverty but the idea that people are working hard, are on an income where they are in poverty and the way the taxation system is designed is part of the problem, should not be the case. We should not have 6% of working people in poverty. That needs to be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will make two quick points. The costing we have in terms of making refundable tax credits available for lower income workers is €125 million. I will look into the differences between the Minister's figure and the costing I have because I want to get to the bottom of that. Not this budget, but recent budgets have had the effect of changes being made around indexation and around...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The point I am making is changes in taxation and in budgets should not disproportionately benefit people on higher incomes compared to lower incomes. There is a range of reasons that should never happen.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Report on refundable tax credits 4. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the fiscal and distributional impact making personal tax credits refundable for low-income earners.”.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Heneghan for his contribution. I also want to acknowledge that Minister of State, Deputy Moynihan, visited the school - Stapolin Educate Together National School - a few months ago. The Government has said time and again that every child that needs an appropriate school place should have one. Stapolin Educate Together National School has asked to open two additional autism...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to read from correspondence from the school principal. She says: Our autism classes are now in their third year, and in that short time, we've gained extensive experience in setting them up and supporting our pupils to thrive. The success of our model has been widely recognised with teachers and SNAs from other schools regularly visiting us to observe and learn from our approach....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am not asking the witness to reveal any confidential information. This is a clear matter of process. On what date was this application for a transfer received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. Makhlouf has told us the issuer took the initiative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Were there any discussions with the issuer before it made that request for a transfer?