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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that mental health services are accessible to persons in the deaf community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3780/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I trust members will have received an email from the Ceann Comhairle yesterday on the lifting of Covid restrictions. Insofar as this committee is concerned, the key point to note is that with effect from this week, members and witnesses will have the option of attending meetings within the relevant committee room rather than participating via MS Teams. Room capacity will continue to be...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Healy for his opening statement. I invite Dr. McDonnell to make his opening statement on behalf of NERI.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I do not know which of our speakers would like to comment on some of those issues.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Does Dr. McDonnell wish to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I apologise for interruption, but I have to move to the next speaker. On the issue of the living wage, I want to advise Dr. Healy that the living wage Bill has appeared on the spring legislative programme for 2022. We live in hope. The next speaker is Deputy Mairéad Farrell.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We appear to have lost Deputy Durkan. I call Deputy Canney.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We are having problems with the sound.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, we are having problems with the sound.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It does. We missed the lasts few sentences of your contribution.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: There is a lot to unpack in those questions. I do not know who wants to take that on first. Who is brave enough? Will I nominate somebody?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Do other witnesses want to address any of those issues?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We are already at the stage where people are seeing astronomical rents and starting to call them affordable. It is appalling, certainly in my constituency. I thank the witnesses for today's session. We are at the beginning of our work on this and I wonder whether some of our questions are very open-ended in nature. I hope they will bear with us. We are trying to get to grips with this...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. O'Donnell. Did Dr. Healy want to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I am mindful we are in an especially volatile, dynamic situation at the moment and the world seems very difficult to track. We have seen all sorts of predictions, particularly within our own system, that have not come to pass. It is hard to predict at the moment.