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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated total cost of providing a once-off €10, €50 and €100 payment to recipients of each social welfare payment, disaggregated by social welfare payment type, provided in tabular form. [39552/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2019; and the projected number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2022, disaggregated by social welfare type and provided in tabular form. [39553/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Cuirím fáilte roimh an Aire os comhair an choiste. Economic statements are produced every year and every year we are told by the Minister the way this is going to be and then rabbits are pulled out of the hat on budget day, which we have been promised will not happen. Is the budget strategy that has been outlined in the summer economic statement going to be the one that is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Was the budget strategy that was delivered for the last two years the same as the one outlined in the summer economic statements in terms of numbers and expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is fine if the Minister is saying that that is what will be delivered on budget day. On the existing levels of service, ELS, costs, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has been critical of the amounts that have been identified in the stability programme update, SPU, and again in the summer economic statement. IFAC has said that they are not realistic given the levels of inflation that we...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: So there will be no savings this year.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Is it likely that ELS may have to dip into the unallocated €2.7 billion at this stage? I ask even though I know that it is early.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I just wanted to get the ministerial assessment and that of the Department as to where we are at this point in time, and that is a wee bit at odds with the stance of IFAC. Obviously we will know better as we get closer to budget day. I wish to pick up on the point made about a new public pay deal. We know that under the existing ELS the existing pay deals and...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I understand. We know it is likely that a pay deal will be struck. Will the Minister give us an indication of how much of the pie will be taken up by the pay deal? Is it not the case that the rejected pay deal on offer had a total value of €1.1 billion? Was this not the overall package on offer? The 2023 figure was less than that because some of the increments were later in the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am not asking the Minister to do so.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am not asking the Minister to do that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Is the 2023 figure €700 million?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Why not?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Working on this basis it would be fair enough to look at the pay deal on offer even though it has been rejected. The 2023 impact would have been approximately €700 million, with another €400 million in 2024 as other increments and the full year effects kicked in.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: If I table a parliamentary question asking the Minister for these figures if a pay deal kicked in for the public sector as proposed on certain dates would he answer the question?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: You are not answering them today.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, I will move on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I know they did not conclude.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We are trying to get an indication of the impact of what was on offer and, I presume, is still on offer from the Department and the impact it would have on the budget for 2023. This is all we are trying to do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We are not trying to sneakily find out-----