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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Given the seriousness of the matter raised by the Deputy, I will ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to refer to him directly. We take very seriously the integrity of An Bord Pleanála, the justified reputation for integrity which it does have. I am confident in their decisions and how they make them, but I accept that the Deputy is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: We of course appreciate how hard our doctors and nurses are working in providing the medical care so badly needed after the demanding years we have been through. We can see the impact that is having on waiting lists. Regarding the industrial action referred to by the Deputy, and taking the national consultant hospital doctors, NCHD, issue, which is now the subject of potential industrial...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: This has been put in place to respond to the waiting lists, which we will get down as the year goes on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I urge those who are so concerned about their work and conditions to engage in the processes available in the State for the resolution of these matters and in the wage discussions now underway.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: We are seeing many indications now from central banks all over the world that they are going ahead with interest rate changes and also withdrawing the major emergency funding plans they had in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not for me to speculate, and it would not be appropriate for me to do so, on what the ECB will do. I must recognise its independence. Mortgage holders in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: We absolutely appreciate the value of home care and the difference it makes to those families who need this support at difficult times when they are vulnerable. The Department of Health has allocated a large additional budget to provide more home help hours. As the Deputy may be aware, the challenge we are facing is in recruiting the staff needed to provide this care. I will have to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy referred to talk, commitments and the time for speaking being over. The reality is 977 homes being built in Dundrum, 817 in Balbriggan, 345 in Skerries and 219 in Naas by the Land Development Agency.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: These are planning applications that are in to build the homes we need while our local authorities are directly building thousands of homes across the country this year to make progress on the great challenge on which we know faster progress needs to be made.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his very detailed question regarding the funding the State makes available to cover a share of the travel expenses of those who work on behalf of the State. Perhaps this is a matter that will form part of the engagement in regard to public sector wages that is currently under way. The Government hopes we will get to a point at which those negotiations will lead to a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The reference the Deputy made to monetary policy is interesting because it is the monetary policy that was in place which allowed the Government to put in place the huge support during the time of Covid, as referenced by Deputy Bacik. There are few economists claiming that it is the budgetary response that was put in place by governments that has led to the inflationary pressures we are now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I think it is a critique that is developing in other parts of the world. As the Deputy will be aware, it could be the case that the higher levels of savings that are present within economies in Europe after the Covid crisis are playing a role. What is playing a far bigger role is the impact of the war in Ukraine and supply chains that were really weak and fragile as an effect of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Is the Deputy against the extension of the reduced VAT rate?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: He needs to be clear on what his view is in this regard. Is he against the extension of the 9% rate for hospitality?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: This is a sector that went through such a difficult period over the past three years-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: We have put in place a measure to give the sector the opportunity to recover from the awful effects of the pandemic. Of course I remember the issue that Deputy Doherty raised with me, but this is why the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, who is directly responsible for dealing with our tourism sector and its future development, and her officials have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government appreciates the challenges, anxiety, stress and trauma that so many face as they look for an affordable home or a home they can be confident they will be able to afford to rent in the future and experienced by all those who have been waiting on social housing lists for so many years looking for the opportunity to have a roof over their head that they can call home. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Those homes will then be available for use by the local authorities-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Boyd Barrett knows the truth. He knows well that the houses he has just referenced will then be used by the local authority in his area to respond to housing needs and clear the housing list. That is a fact. The Deputy comes in here and makes the case about the truth. Any Deputy who is trying to respond to the housing needs within his or her constituency knows a share of the houses...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I meet those people-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----in the constituency I have the privilege of representing in this House, in my clinics and in the many engagements I have with those who are dealing with this challenge the Government knows is so real.