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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I hope we will see them delivered. The report references the topic of the day, which is the rise in energy prices we are all talking about. Is there a prediction now that the energy crisis will lead to permanently elevated costs compared with the pre-Covid price trajectory? I only have two minutes left in my slot so what is the assessment of the witnesses of such a view? Do they expect...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: That cements a floor on the price of carbon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: It is so much fun.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Dr. Stewart as teacht os comhair an choiste seo. I thank Dr. Stewart for coming before the committee. I know this is something he has been focused on for quite some time. It really came into the spotlight in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was then a lot of talk of financial and economic sanctions and, as a result, the spotlight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. Stewart. His research was widely covered in the media four years ago and a former deputy governor spoke about the significant risks he had identified and went on to say the Central Bank needs to be appropriately staffed and have teeth to monitor such opaque activities. One thing that has come out of all the decisions we have had so far is the opaque nature of this. On the back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. Stewart. The IFSC appears to have a long-standing relationship with the Russian economy. I am aware Dr. Stewart's research detailed the period of 2005-17 but in the 1990s the use of Irish-registered non-resident companies by those from Russia attracted much adverse comment in the international media and even in Dáil debates. Here the IFSC seems to focus as a conduit for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Dr. Stewart. It is quite interesting to note the IMF in a 2019 paper found 60% of all FDI into Russia is made by empty brass-plate holding companies, which are the type of companies Dr. Stewart's own study examined. Do we have any idea what proportion of that 60% would be comprised of investment from the IFSC? As a broader point, and one very relevant to us, do FDI statistics need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Obviously they are difficult questions to answer and it is good in a sense the spotlight has been put on this whole issue now. This is something that has gone into all sorts of media and there has been more of a focus on it. I ask about the lack of transparency around the ownership of certain types of company structures operating in the IFSC. This State introduced its register of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, it appears that way. I understand what Dr. Stewart means about this not just being an issue for the IFSC but as the finance committee of the Oireachtas that is where our focus needs to be. It is about what we can do to make things as transparent as possible. Dr. Stewart has highlighted the role of corporate service providers in providing the know-your-client function but presumably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: There were revelations in the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, the Luxembourg leaks and the Cum-Ex trading scandal, as there were in Dr. Stewart's own research. There appear to be well-paid professional networks acting, in some senses, as enablers. While fines can sometimes be imposed, we rarely see any kind of criminal sanction. Do we need harsher penalties for those who are willing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I noted in Dr. Stewart's opening statement a reference to the fact that section 110 firms may be regarded as tax neutral but can result in large tax losses in countries which receive interest payments. I am aware that one of the issues the domestic tax base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process of the OECD was intended to tackle was the risk of double non-taxation. Would it be fair to...

Food Price Rises: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: We know that the cost of living is rising. We know the severe pressure that people are under to heat their homes as well as to put fuel in their cars in order to get to work and do the bare minimum that most people need to do. However, we are facing a new part of the cost of living crisis, that being, food poverty. People are finding it increasingly difficult to put food on the table....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Harbours and Piers (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on stage 3 of the development of An Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; if he will provide a schedule of works for An Caladh Mór; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review his Department is undertaking with regard to facilitating inter-county social housing transfers; if this review will be progressed in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27286/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the policy of joint tenancy in local authority housing with the view to include the full-time carers of tenants who also qualify for housing support in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27361/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 19 May 2022, the nomination date of all members and the nomination forms for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community physiotherapists in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28023/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a consultant has been appointed for the deep-water quay at Ros a Mhíl; if the timeline and key milestones for the development have been agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28097/22]

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Referral to Select Committee (26 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Order 180.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 May 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 64. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the issues of persons suffering from long-Covid; the expanded care planned for those with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25421/22]