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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Neale Richmond: I propose to take Questions Nos. 65 and 94 together. I thank Deputies O'Sullivan and Stanton for their very timely and pertinent questions. As they will be aware, insurance reform remains a key priority for this Government and is being delivered via the action plan for insurance reform. As per the most recent action plan implementation report, published in February 2024, the vast bulk of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have no doubt that the Minister of State is acutely aware of the considerable costs faced by businesses in the current environment. The price of energy and the costs of purchasing and processing materials are considerable. It is no different with insurance premiums. Recently, Brian Hanley of the Alliance for Insurance Reform said insurers told the group that reforms were necessary for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Following events like Storm Babet in east Cork, is he aware of delays in payouts to consumers and of the stress that can be caused if people must wait for a long period to have their claims met and indeed if they have to jump through all kinds of hoops to make a claim in the first place and have it accepted? Is there anything we can do to make...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Neale Richmond: I thank the Deputies for the supplementary questions. I acknowledge absolutely the acute costs facing businesses. This issue is very relevant to my previous role. I have met representatives of the Alliance for Insurance Reform already. We had a recent roundtable event for those in the hospitality sector, which they attended. We expect other companies to enter the market. As I laid out,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not get this. He proceeded with one increase last month, which was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time again. Now he s planning for and has legislated for this increase in 70 days and legislated for a further increase two months later. It is not just those people who are struggling. It is not just the people who have to fill their tanks. Every time they put a litre...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: The Deputy will be aware that we are having this debate because the Government cut excise duty back in 2022. That was the right decision at the time. The restoration that has taken place since has been on a phased basis and one final phase of that restoration was due. I have given a commitment to the House on a number of occasions that this will be kept under review. Luckily I did not...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: As I said, it is just as well I did not take the Deputy's advice-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's advice was to keep it under review. He knows that well. He should be brutally honest please; a vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for an increase in petrol prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: -----or we would have seen an 8 cent per litre increase last month.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: And if it is not, and if a vote for Fianna Fáil is not to increase petrol and diesel prices maybe the Minister will clarify that. I will give him the floor.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: It is just as well I did not take the advice or we would have seen an 8 cent per litre increase last month----------
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: No, please-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: Sinn Féin advocated for an 8 cent increase in petrol last month. It is just as well I did not take the Deputy's advice.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That question is over. We are moving on.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (21 May 2024)
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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (21 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of his engagement with the NTMA with regard to ensuring that the NTMA divest from all ISIF global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; the expected timeline for this divestment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22730/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (21 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: My question relates to what engagement the Minister for Finance has had with the NTMA around ensuring the agency divests from all Ireland Strategic Investment Fund global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of enterprises. What is the expected timeline for the total divestment? I ask this in the context of the resolution that was passed more than...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (21 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputy for the question. The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, which is a business unit of the NTMA, is statutorily independent and is subject to oversight by its investment committee and the NTMA's board. My officials are in contact with the NTMA on an ongoing basis across a range of issues, including those arising from the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023. On...