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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister. I appreciate those remarks and acknowledge of course that the home energy costs in particular are high because of those futures contracts that were entered into. I hope we will see a further reduction. As I said, the main point of my question was to determine whether additional measures would be introduced to try to lessen the burden of costs that have been borne by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In regard to fuel prices and possible reductions in the international markets, how is it determined that those reductions or increases can be transferred to the consumer, to benefit the consumer? From past experience we know that when increases are on the horizon, they are passed on quickly to the consumer and have a dramatic effect. While almost all consumer goods now are transported in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputies. We are at a point in the budgetary cycle where we have published the stability programme update. We will have the national economic dialogue next month and then we will have the summer economic statement and will consider all of the issues that the Deputies have raised in deciding on the budgetary parameters. Then, more particularly when deciding on the individual...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There is less than one minute left so Deputy Moynihan has 30 seconds just to raise the question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Banking Sector

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure independent ATM operators register with the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22616/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: The ability to do business with cash is so valuable for so many different people throughout the country and a key part of the ability to do your business in cash is to have access to an ATM network, to be able to get the cash out of the bank. Is the Minister in a position to ensure that all the ATMs would be registered and regulated? Increasingly, ATMs are not associated with the banks but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: In short, the answer is "yes, Deputy". The access to cash legislation is at a very advanced stage of preparation. We need to consult the European Central Bank because some of the matters in the Bill are relevant to the functions of the ECB but I expect we will be sending a copy of the Bill to it in the next number of weeks. In essence the Bill will provide for the registration and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That completes questions to the Minister for Finance.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (21 May 2024)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024)

Wind Energy Guidelines

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht teacht isteach agus é seo a thógáil. It is fitting that today, when I did something I only do once a week and collected my post in Leinster House, I got Government notice of statutory instruments designating special areas of conservation in County Galway, for the attention of land owners and land users. These are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Economic Data

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which positive conclusions can be drawn from this country's economic performance when considered alongside other eurozone countries and all other European countries; if the methodology for the measurement of the economy here continues to be robust and accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22705/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that this economy continues to perform well when considered in the overall European context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22987/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: These questions seek to ascertain the extent to which the Minister has confidence in the robustness of the performance of this jurisdiction's economy when compared to other eurozone countries and non-eurozone countries.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 237 together. The economic performance across the EU and Ireland was somewhat subdued last year amid weak global trade and GDP growth. In 2023, GDP grew by a modest 0.4% in the euro area and EU, while Irish GDP recorded a contraction of 3.2%. GDP growth in the euro area and Ireland is projected to pick up this year, though remaining below...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for that reply. To what degree does he, as he obviously does, continue to monitor the cause or causes of inflation, whether imported or generated nationally? To what extent can measures be taken at this stage to identify those tendencies? I ask this particularly since it seems to be fashionable nowadays to say it is inflation and everybody knows it is inflation. We do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: We monitor inflation at the headline level but also the components of inflation quite closely, as would be expected. Every time a publication is issued by the Central Statistics Office and Eurostat, it is examined by officials in my Department, who report to me, give me a summary of them and their interpretation of the underlying trends. Of course, there is a difference between the...