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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: My question relates to the rate of child benefit payment per child and whether there is an opportunity to have it increased to support families who are under pressure. When the payment was first introduced, it was a useful step in tackling child poverty. Can the rate of child benefit be increased in the forthcoming budget?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge the huge step that was taken in allowing full-time students to hold on to child benefit. I had raised the issue with the Minister, as did many of my colleagues. It was a positive move that it was included in the budget. The one-off payments are just that. They are not ongoing over the years. When child benefit was originally introduced in the 1940s, it had a huge impact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I will focus on the particular group who do not qualify for the various social welfare payments such as child dependant payments. Child benefit is probably the only social welfare payment going into the house and it is a hugely significant part of the overall household budget. It has not been increased in many years from the €140 rate. If she were to make a change in that, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. The modifications that were made were very beneficial, especially for people who are caring for children throughout much of their life. This situation arises for people who take on a caring role later in life, in their 40s, 50s and 60s. I would welcome an opportunity to review the scheme and include it in any of the next steps that will be taken. Is there any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider reducing the current 20-year minimum criterion of full-time caring to an incapacitated person under the long-term carers contribution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37625/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: This question relates to people taking time from work to care, very often for family members, and enabling them to qualify for a pension. There are situations involving older people in particular who take time off later in their career who cannot fulfil the 20-year criterion by the time they reach pension age.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge that a great effort has been made and that it does work for so many people who were carrying out that hugely important caring role, but there are situations that arise where a person cannot make up 20 years. Those cases very likely involve people who took on the caring role later in life – in their 40s, 50s or later – and they cannot make up the 20 years by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Will the Minister review the situation for them?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for consideration in providing a greenway from a village to a forest park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37753/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (24 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on progressing the delivery of a greenway from a town to a nature preserve (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (19 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide for the establishment a stand-alone tourist promotion campaign for the mid-Cork area of County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37015/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (19 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén maoiniú agus cén tacaíocht atá á gcur ar fáil trí Údarás na Gaeltachta chun an bhrandáil a dhéantar ar Ghaeltacht Mhúscraí a neartú agus chun níos mó aitheantais a thabhairt di, agus ar mhaithe le turasóireacht a chur chun cinn ann, os...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (19 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position on the draft management plan to be published for circulation by the stakeholders for an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (19 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the engagement to date from Cork County Council with his Department in advancing a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37018/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: No apologies have been received. The purpose of today's meeting is pre-budget engagement. The afternoon engagement is the first of two sessions today and forms part of the committee's scrutiny of budget 2025. The committee is due to meet later this evening to hear from the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. On behalf of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Go raibh maith agat. I now invite Dr. Conor O’Toole from the ESRI to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Thank you. I invite the chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, Mr. Coffey, to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Thank you. I invite the co-director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, Dr. McDonnell, to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I am conscious this is a long session, so I will make just one or two brief points because a lot of the ground has been covered. Without doubt, many of the economic indicators are positive, from employment to interest rates and across the board. Much of the emphasis from the various contributions relates to being steady and keeping an eye out for the days when things will not be so good....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: After a long session, I thank everyone for their contributions and patience. That concludes our public session. I thank each of the witnesses for attending. We will now suspend the session until 6.30 p.m. in committee room 2.