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Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Taoiseach and his officials for their attendance. On Vote 2 and section C of the briefing note, which is on sustaining the economy and investment, it is reported in today's Business Post that Irish banks are earning substantially more on mortgages than their UK counterparts. Research from RBC Capital Markets shows that Irish retail banks, AIB, Bank of Ireland and PTSB, are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Given credible analysis has reported the margin on mortgages in Ireland is more than three times that of the UK, with respect to the gap in the interest rates, that is very serious. It has very serious impacts on people trying to get somewhere to live. That then has very serious knock-on impacts for the economy in terms of housing supply, wage growth and pressures there.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Would the Taoiseach be happy to come back to the committee on it after that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is. The Taoiseach has a larger briefing note on Vote 2 about sustaining the economy and investment and I think this is absolutely relevant to that. If the Taoiseach is going to produce the briefing note-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: He might come back to the committee on it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [32570/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why have you not done it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not have enough powers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does it have enough powers?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does it have the powers to do its job?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach have the political guts to make supermarkets publish their profits and have full transparency? This is what I asked him about. Does he have the political guts to actually answer the question I put to him? We are talking about parents skipping meals so their children can eat. We are talking about situations where a child cannot go to a friend's birthday because there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Looking at strengthening the powers of the CCPC is no good. You have to actually act when you are in government. The Government has been looking at strengthening its powers for years but it has not done it. The Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, asking it to do a review like it did in 2023, which did not achieve anything as the Government had not given it extra powers, will not produce...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask a couple of questions to follow up on that in a minute. Deputy Devine referred to the Central Bank's housing completion forecast. The forecast was for 35,000 homes for this year, which has been revised to 32,000. Media coverage claims that the Department of housing has been advising the Minister that even the revised forecast might be excessive and he should be looking at a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to return to the discussion on productivity in the construction sector. As noted in the Central Bank's quarterly bulletin, Ireland is 20% below the EU average, and the second lowest among a number of comparable European countries examined, in this regard. It is worrying, at a time when investment should be increasing, that the quarterly report notes that investment in the sector's...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is it fair to say that the ad hoc method of delivery of housing lends itself to smaller scale? Would better land-use regulation, larger-scale projects and larger delivery of infrastructure with a larger-scale delivery of housing by the private sector, the Land Development Agency or whoever it is lend itself to greater levels of productivity? If we had a more co-ordinated and planned...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has provided a letter of support for CIÉ pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money raised through windfall tax receipts used for current expenditure between the years 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that all LGBTQ+ families are provided with legal recognition where the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 is currently failing (details supplied); the actions being taken to include more families in the legislation; if she has engaged with key groups on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the shingles vaccine free for older people; if she will consider this as a measure to help older people with the cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37211/25]