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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: I welcome from the Nevin Economic Research Institute, Dr. Tom McDonnell, Mr. Ciarán Nugent and Mr. Chris Smart; and from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Dr. Laura Bambrick and Mr. Ger Gibbons. I thank them for coming back. I apologise for what happened with the session some weeks ago. We had a number of clashes, some of which have repeated today but thankfully some have not. We...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: I invite Mr. Ger Gibbons to make his opening statement.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Would the witnesses like to make any comments on those points?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. I am next but we have to make sure that if there is a vote in the Dáil we will be able to attend it. I had prepared questions, but then I was listening to the conversation and now I have a variety of different questions. I will start with what happened yesterday and the conversation around social welfare because a lot of the time the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: It is a fair point. Our clinics were mentioned earlier. The deprivation we see in our clinics is absolutely horrendous. People come into our clinics and tell us things they would not tell a friend or neighbour. We see deprivation at first hand. We do not live through it, however, and maybe that is part of the issue too. I am acutely aware that it is not just a matter of figures and...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: In an ideal world, someone might suggest to the delegates that there should be a change of Government, but I would not suggest anything to them. If something were to change overnight and the payments could be benchmarked, how long would it take the people to get out of deprivation? Surely it is not just a matter of getting €400 to €500 suddenly. I would imagine that the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: That is what I mean. There are so many definitions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Out of interest, I want to ask the delegates about their view on a job guarantee scheme. Is that question a bit broad? I have other questions that I have prepared but this matter arises from the conversation. Having listened to what Deputy Michael Healy-Ray said about the fuel allowance, we went into a fuel allowance conversation. On the few points made, I actually agree that retrofitting...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Does anyone else wish to come in on that? Please go ahead and jump in.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: It is just something in which I am interested.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: I like to ask everybody who comes in out of interest more than anything.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: I did not know that. Where in Austria?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Yes, of course. That is really good. I will hit on public enterprise and the role it can play in some of the serious deficiencies we have, of which there are a few. We have seen people in The Irish Timesmoaning that the State does not have the capacity to do things and saying it needs to be privatised and all of that. We are currently seeing proposals for a relaxation of the EU state aid...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: On bogus self-employment, one thing that always struck me is that people do not talk about bogus self-employment, but there is always talk about PRSI.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: They say it is €1 billion. That is what we have been hearing.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)
Mairéad Farrell: Yes, that would be the risk.