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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Maybe we are overly sensitive to that issue at the moment. We are really talking about two areas, that is, the welfare system and taxes. I was wondering if our contributors could explore a little whether we should always be talking about that in terms of the same measure, in that the indexation would always be linked to the exact same measure, or should we be looking at a more nuanced...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Healy. Does Dr. McDonnell want to come in?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have two brief questions. I see Deputy Durkan is back with us, and I know Deputy Canney wants to come back in. I will get in my two questions because I do not want to take up too much of the committee's time. I will cut to the chase and ask my first question. One of the things I am interested in is how many of our population who are in deprivation or below the poverty line we would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not mind who wishes to come in on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Thank you, Ms Murphy. I know it is hard to forecast those kinds of numbers, but it is helpful to at least feel our way towards some kinds of numbers. That brings me to my final question. Throughout this session we have dealt with a lot of issues that require a huge amount of data analysis and compilation. The witnesses' organisations both do a huge amount of research, which I rely on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Do we know what the time lag on those numbers is? Is it the case that the numbers are available for the previous quarter?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Would it be fair to say that we could do with some review or reform of the consumer price index? I notice that they are having this conversation in the UK about the reality on the ground as to what people on low incomes are buying. The UK's consumer price index does not reflect the reality of people on low incomes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Let us hope it is unusual.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Deputy on behalf of mammies. Do any of our contributors want to respond to Deputy Durkan’s points?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Canney wanted to come back in and I will bring Deputy Patricia Ryan in afterwards.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does that answer Deputy Canney's question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I could not agree more. Deputy Patricia Ryan is next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: As no other speakers are indicating I will finish the session. This was our first session and I thank our witnesses. They have given us a fantastic grounding in the conversation today and in their excellent opening statements. I thank them for their time. I hope when we write our report we can do their work justice. I thank Dr. McDonnell, Dr. Healy, Ms Murphy and Ms Rogers for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 521. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has made an allocation for the operational budget of the North Inner-City Drug and Alcohol Task Force for 2022; and if this allocation for the North Inner-City Drug and Alcohol Task Force is included in the HSE budget for 2022. [2877/22]

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I may not speak for the entire committee but I fully support the idea of zero tolerance for the admission of children to adult facilities. I might bounce around a little in my questions because this is very broad legislation and we have already talked in this meeting about parallel legislation. To return to the issue of consent, I am trying to understand something mentioned in our...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It does. I guess the answer is that there is no clarity around who would assess maturity. Mr. Castillo Goncalves mentioned a number of other jurisdictions. Is it the standard in other jurisdictions where this practice is working for there to be an appeals process by that child? Is it possible for the child to appeal an assessment of maturity?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is okay. I was wondering if we could talk about guardian ad litem, GAL. I am not a legal expert. I am aware that there is other legislative work being done on the child care (amendment) Bill, which fell in the last Dáil and is now coming back. I would like to understand a little bit more about the interaction of the guardianad litem. I suspect that the answer will be that we...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It does, because the wording seemed strange to me. For clarity, then, if the wording was tidied up in this legislation, would the other legislation do the job of ensuring that there is a presumption a child would get a GAL?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. McAuley is suggesting that there should be similar language in this legislation to the language in other legislation.