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- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Duncan Smith: ...approval to extend free GP care to all children under 13. That still has not happened. The only party to have delivered free GP care in any way has been the Labour Party. This scheme has not been extended and improved for far too long. Primary care is about much more than GPs, and primary care centres should provide the full suite of community-centred healthcare. We need investment in...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Gerald Nash: ...competitive country in the world and eighth in the UN development index. We have a sophisticated economy and high levels of third-level education. We are healthier now than ever and we are living longer than our grandparents did. Labour is a patriotic party. We have always tried to put our country first, even when it might have been easier and more politically opportune or expedient...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Mairead Farrell: ...Covid, inflation, an energy crisis and, of course, war. Individually each of these has been highly significant. Cumulatively they have been even more so. However, we have a cost-of-living crisis which long predates these shocks. Many will watch today to see what decisive action the Government has taken on affordable housing, stopping rent increases and real delivery on childcare costs....
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Pearse Doherty: ...package that was fair. That could have been done by cutting the USC, by ensuring that we put money into the pockets of middle-income and low-income earners, and we would have made sure that people earning more than €100,000 were not benefiting more than four times than those people in the squeezed middle were benefiting. This, along with our cost-of-living payments would have put...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Pearse Doherty: ...; ag teacht ar oibrithe agus ar theaghlaigh faoin ghéarchéim costais mhaireachtála is measa le tamall fada agus an titim is mó ar chaighdeán maireachtála ó tharla an timpiste airgeadais. This cost-of-living crisis is not new but has been with us for some time. Already having to contend with unaffordable housing and childcare costs, low pay and long...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Michael McGrath: ...the ongoing impact that Covid-related school closures and disruption has had on our school system, I am providing funding for the continuation of the enhanced summer programme for a further year, along with other well-being and inclusion supports. FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE Investing in our further and higher education and research sector is...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Michael McGrath: ...over the last three years, and the manner in which we collectively responded, demonstrates our resilience as a nation. We continue to navigate the uncertainties of Brexit and we got through the long, dark days of Covid. We are responding with compassion and resolve to the dreadful invasion of Ukraine. We are doing this together, both here in Ireland and in co-operation with our...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: ...in order to open. This will reduce the excise fees for a special exemption application order from €110 to €55. This aligns with a number of measures we have taken to support the night-time economy, and ahead of longer term reforms which will be announced when the general scheme of the sale of alcohol Bill is published within weeks. A financial resolution will be brought in...