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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Go ahead.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: They were not happy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I like to think the carbon tax roadmap is there to inform the public, but in fact it is mostly to inform other politicians that this is happening, that they cannot argue with it and that we have locked it in at the start. If this is to work, is it envisaged that a more robust forum would be needed for the business community to support it? Notwithstanding the importance of public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Will Mr. Brady expand on that point?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Time is an accordion for Covid.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I might just finish off by asking the witnesses if they would like to comment on any of the recommendations on PRSI in the document. I am particularly thinking of the one in Chapter 9 around, "... employer Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) on share-based remuneration should be limited through the introduction of an appropriate annual cap or, alternatively, by restricting the exemption to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Do the witnesses have any views - I have spoken to the Minister about this before - on the supports Government provides, not so much financial but a supporting framework to businesses that choose to move to a more co-operative model? There has been interesting work in the UK around businesses that choose to move to that place, rather than wind down, for example.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The witnesses do not wish to make a comment about PRSI.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It does not concern so much members of the witnesses' organisations or the people they represent, but we always wonder if there are sufficient data and public information in the public sphere around what is happening the business community. We could put this question to other sectors as well. Do the witnesses believe that not just the Department of Finance but also the Department of Public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Try not to get into too much trouble.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We hear that exact thing in the health sphere all the time. It is not that they are not making the data available, but the data have not been collected or collated. I thank the witnesses for their responses which were very interesting. I thank them for coming before the committee. It was an evening session, so I appreciate their time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. I am cognisant of the seriousness of the spectrum of issues we are discussing. I will use my time to focus on the issue of long Covid because it is an emerging issue. Like a lot of people, I am trying to get a good handle on it. It is one of those issues arising out of the Covid pandemic that we possibly will be dealing with long into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I had to get them all in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I know the Chair wants to move onto the next person, but to be clear, by my reading of that parliamentary question, if the Minister for Social Protection recognised it as an occupational disease we might be able to sidestep the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 46. To ask the Taoiseach when a new chair will be appointed to the north east inner city initiative; and if he will outline the process by which a new chair will be appointed. [5532/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 47. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under the remit of his Department, that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, inclusive. [5578/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay Commission (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to introduce a universal basic income pilot in the lifetime of the Government, following the publication of a report (details supplied) by the ERSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5549/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under the remit of his Department, that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, inclusive....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under the remit of his Department, that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Social Media (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under the remit of his Department, that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, inclusive. [5580/23]