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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Without an audit we will find in the coming years that some services in other Departments should rightly be in this Department and its work as an umbrella Department for disability will be hamstrung by the continuing presence of those services in other places.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: They should but it is also very important that there is a legible point of access.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 6. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the expected timeline for the introduction of paid domestic violence leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 36. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation of the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the commencement of operations of the deposit return scheme; the steps that have been taken by his Department in order to engage with local businesses for the setting-up of local facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28540/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry for arriving late but I am trying to cover a number of meetings this morning and apologise if what I am about to ask has been asked. I will focus on the area of early years and integrated disability provision or the recognition of integrated services in the sector because I guess that it is a challenge. My experience is that early years education has been an incredibly useful and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Perfect.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in protecting themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. They are strongly advised to practise good hand hygiene and to leave at least one vacant seat between themselves and others attending. They should always maintain an appropriate level of social distance during and after the meeting. Before...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Thank you Mr. Barnes. Deputy Doherty is our first speaker.

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

Neasa Hourigan: The Deputy is well over time.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. For a second, I thought he might conclude before his time was up. I might have won a bet.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I call Deputy Michael Healy-Rae next.

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

Neasa Hourigan: A vote has been called in the Dáil but Mr. Barnes may answer the question.

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

Neasa Hourigan: The meeting is back in public session. I thank everybody for their forbearance. It can be tricky when there is a vote in the House. Deputy Durkan still has eight minutes left in his allotted time.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I will allow members to come in with other questions. I ask members participating online to raise their hand. We talked a little bit about debt. Can we expand on that? Obviously we are in an especially volatile global situation right now. I notice that some of the language in the council's submission is similar to the language at which we have been looking for two years insofar as it is...

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

Neasa Hourigan: That is a very helpful answer. I am aware that some countries are dealing with an issue around access to cash. I notice that some of the council's work is based on looking at ATM transactions. There seems to have been a transfer of access to cash facilities from banks to private companies. In terms of access to data, how happy is the council with the idea that transactions such as that...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Obviously, many transactions are now carried out on cards which might not have been previously. While I cannot speak for anybody else, many people do not carry cash in the way that they did previously. Many people in my community live a mostly cash-based lives because they are in receipt of small sums of money. Is there a problem with the data from that aspect? Will they truly reflect...

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

Neasa Hourigan: That is interesting as a change and it is also interesting in terms of the data.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Is everyone happy? I do not see further hands up online. Everyone is quiet. That leaves me to thank our members today. I apologise for the interruption of the vote but these things happen sometimes. It has been an incredibly useful session for us. We got a huge amount of information, which I am sure we will be drawing on in the next few months as we lead up to the budget. It has been...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Can we all stop referring to my committee meeting as a party? I do not hear that of any other committee.