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Responsibility of Social Media Platforms (Defamation Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: This Bill is designed to ensure that social media companies take responsibility for defamatory statements made on their platforms in cases where the companies in question are unable or unwilling to provide the identities of those posting defamatory statements. At the moment, social media allow those who make such statements to hide behind anonymous profiles. In some cases, they are unable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I wish to raise again the crisis in the dental treatment purchase scheme and the fact that people with medical cards have not been able to access a dentist for over 12 months. It is almost 15 months at this stage. Patients with diabetes and patients with cancer are all denied access to basic dental treatment. The Irish Dental Association met with the HSE on 2 March to try to get a...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I will touch on the SEAI's national retrofitting plan and its target to deliver on 500,000 homes, or approximately 30% of all homes in the State. Do its targets contain any reference to geographic or income spread? Is the SEAI simply interested in the number of raw houses that are retrofitted?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Is that the only safeguard the SEAI has in place to ensure that spread for the energy-poor sector?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Okay. It was suggested that householders' contribution would likely max out at approximately 50% or €25,000, but that a loan scheme might be in place by the summer or autumn. Has any progress been made on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Okay, thanks for that. Is it envisaged that the situation will be that those who can afford to pay for everything upfront, for example, the €25,000, will get all the work done without needing to take on the cost of what would be rebated at the other end? The SEAI's plan is to make it easier again by facilitating, as Dr. Byrne said, hopefully, low-interest State-backed loans.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: There are some who cannot afford to pay for everything at once and because of that will be forced to do it bit by bit. Will people in those particular situations actually pay twice as much upfront and then seek a rebate?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: For example, am I right in saying that the SEAI will pay up to 50% of the cost for the one-stop shop, the contractor who will do all, and the person will not have to worry about waiting for a rebate?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The other end of that are the people who will not be able to afford to do everything at once, will have to do it in dribs and drabs, will have to pay twice as much upfront and will have to wait for the rebate.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: There will then be less options available to them regarding works to be done as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Is there a low interest State-backed loan scheme in the offing for them?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Or it could be a case that they would like to get it all done, for obvious reasons, but they cannot afford to and they have to do it in dribs and drabs. Under the scheme, they would have to pay twice as much upfront and then wait to seek the rebate. I asked that question because many people have flagged the issue. I noticed that the opening statement mentioned "energy transition must be a...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Did the SEAI not consider gearing it towards middle- and low-income families to make it as accessible for them as for people who have the money and will go with that, particularly for a scheme that is worth €8 billion?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does Dr. Byrne not accept or see why it is suggested that a scheme worth €8 billion is geared more to those who can afford to pay as opposed to those who are less able to pay?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I flagged this with the Minister previously. In regard to private rented accommodation, where landlords can avail of the deep retrofitting grant and they can ask a tenant to move out while the work is ongoing. By law they have to offer the property back to the tenant but because the property has been brought up to a certain BER standard they are exempt from the limits of the rent pressure...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does Dr. Byrne see how this could turn out to be a real problem? While it is monitoring, is the SEAI collecting data to see exactly? If the deep retrofitting scheme results in people being evicted by being offered the property back but at an increased rent, it is going to add to homelessness. Has the SEAI spoken to the Minister about this? The Minister, Deputy Ryan, said it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 16 bus stations that were audited by the National Transport Authority in 2020 which have been allocated funding regarding works required to bring them into line with the requirements of building regulations concerning access for people with disabilities; if any stations were deemed to require works and not allocated funding to date...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeline to publish the report of an independent review of the voluntary mess committees in prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15647/22]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I want to come back to the changes that will occur within the BAI when it is, if we like, dissolved when the media commission comes into being. I was going to ask about additional staff needs and what the witnesses expect, and they have covered that as best they can. I want to ask how the content levy will affect BAI funding and how the witnesses see that transpiring. From the point of...