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Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The Bill will, of course, make the required changes that were identified as a response to the cost-of-living crisis. My colleague, Deputy Doherty, has mentioned this. We had heard time and time again that things could not be done but we kept raising them. I welcome that we are having this discussion. The Bill also includes provisions to amend the TBESS. I will speak to these issues as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment as the Minister with governance oversight responsibility for the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, if he is satisfied that An Post is complying fully with Section 46 (4) of the said Act pertaining to the guarantee that the civil servants transferred to An Post on its vesting day are entitled to "not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 November 2022, if he and his Department will amend and/or revoke the current Conservation of Coarse Fish Bye-Law No. 806 of 2006, which is in direct conflict with other domestic and EU environmental legislation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that An Post, the Irish Aviation Authority and Coillte are complying with their respective founding legislation that contains a guarantee that the civil servants transferred to these bodies on their vesting day are entitled to "not less favourable" conditions in their pensions than those to which they were entitled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the number of properties sold to the State through the tenant in-situ scheme, by local authority in each month since October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the way the HSE recruits workers for key healthcare roles from abroad when the roles cannot be filled locally; if there is an avenue for a non-EEA worker who is not living in Ireland to pursue a career in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1403. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is working in an agency will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13303/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Environmental Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 1438. To ask the Minister for Health the biodiversity action plans that are in place for HSE estates or properties under its management in line with Government policy of protecting green spaces and high biodiversity areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13505/23]

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Fáiltím roimh an deis atá againn an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht a phlé anseo inniu. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge againn. Is dócha gurb é seo an céad uair don Aire Stáit, an Teachta O'Donovan, bheith mar Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge. Cuirim fáilte roimhe sin. Tá a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Special Areas of Conservation (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Inland Fisheries Ireland published the 2021 Lough Melvin Water Framework Directive Fish Survey Report on 23 February 2023, which highlighted the first anthropogenic existence of invasive roach in this SAC lake, if he, and his Department support the conservation of invasive roach in Lough Melvin SAC under the current...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 201. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the contact details for the newly established Online Safety Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (9 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the ongoing construction of the Ros a'Mhíl deep water quay, if he has considered increasing the spec of the deck capacity to 30 tonnes / m2 and the extension of the berth pocket by 30 metres at the north end of the pier, in order to future proof the development; the process and procedures that are in place to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat a Leas-Chathaoirleach agus go raibh maith agat a Taoiseach as ucht teacht chun an Choiste seo. I welcome the Taoiseach to the committee. Given the time constraints outlined by the Leas-Chathaoirleach, I will start with housing. Obviously, a core activity of the Taoiseach's Department is the co-ordination role played in the delivery of housing policy. The Cabinet...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat a Thaoiseach. I want to deal with the eviction ban. We see the number of people who are homeless at the moment and we see in particular people of my age group, people in their early 30s who work full-time and whose partner or husband might work full-time but who are living with their parents. I went to a number of weddings over the summer where people who had got...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: There are a few points to make in response. The first relates to home ownership and young people being able to afford a home and to leave their parents' home. A friend of mine, who is the exact same age, 33, was in touch with me this week. She got engaged at Christmas. Planning her wedding should be a lovely, exciting time for her but she says it is putting far too much stress and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The Taoiseach must have known what it was.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Later I will comment on the same Good Friday Agreement issue mentioned by Deputy Tóibín but first I shall comment on the eviction ban, which is an issue that we touched on earlier. We can disagree right now about the outcome of the eviction ban. Let us say that I turn out to be right. and we do see a massive increase in homelessness and huge pressures because there is no...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: There has been a massive increase in homelessness.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Obviously, I would hope that all those things that the Taoiseach has said he would do if he saw an increase in homelessness, he would do anyway. The whole point is that the eviction ban is in place to give the Government breathing space to deliver the homes that are obviously needed in order to stop people entering homelessness. That is clear but the eviction ban does give that breathing...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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 Mar 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware I am short on time. On that point, obviously, the issue is that housing supply needs to be increased. The way to resolve this issue is by increasing social and affordable housing. I was very disappointed to hear about the affordable housing scheme in Galway city for which many people and young families were hoping. We have been hearing talk about this since 2019. Then we were...