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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am trying to understand this as much as possible because I find it hard to argue in debates unless I have the exact figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I need to know how exactly things work because I am always the one in the debate who doubts myself. I may think the other person is wrong but I am the one who does not push it so I need to fully understand things. The problem here is that they can and they could, so it is not necessarily a done deal for this year. It could be but it might not be, and it is also not dealing with the crux of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please come back with the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please double-check because this issue is very important. I wanted to mainly get as much factual information as possible. I must say that I find the way it turned out incredibly disappointing. I had hoped when I saw the news that it meant that we, as a State, had stood up to this. I really did. It is incredibly disappointing that that is not the case. I strongly feel that surely there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Could we have one person at a time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Then we will do the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: And then it will be the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We might let people in for a second round. I have to pop out at 5 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----under €1,000, then it could.

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There was shock across the State when the news broke on budget day that there was going to be no tax breaks for workers. I was in disbelief. I had assumed that, given a €2.5 billion tax package, there would surely be something in the budget for ordinary workers, who we all know are at the pin of their collars trying to make ends meet. The fact they were not mentioned and not heard...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There are institutional barriers that affect women leaving domestic violence that we can and should change. One of those is the fact that women on the council waiting list in one county who move back to their home county due to domestic violence have to reopen a new application in the new county. Therefore, they are not eligible for emergency accommodation, cannot get homeless...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Could the Taoiseach look at that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: The Government cannot stick to its promises.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Communities (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recreational fisheries which will be subject to fishing authorisations and catch declarations in the future as per Article 55.4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57334/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 312. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the exclusion of cinemas from the recent hospitality VAT reduction from 13.5% to 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57220/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the Abridged Estimates Volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 11, including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [57194/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inland Fisheries (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 669. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) operates a hatchery near Lough Corrib SAC in County Galway under licence from his Department, if IFI notified him of its imminent closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57333/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Three years ago, I raised the story of a couple who had been scammed of €4,000 they had saved in their Revolut account for their wedding. They had huge issues at the time in trying to contact anyone beyond a bot about this scam. After raising this issue, I was flooded with people contacting me saying they too were hit by such scams and could not contact the company. Today, I was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: To be honest, and I get this all the time, sometimes I think the Tánaiste forgets that he is the Tánaiste and has been in government since 2011. We now have a situation whereby people are struggling more and more. Why? It is a direct result of the policies and budgets the Government continues to implement. The Tánaiste said during the general election that the Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: People are really worried about their electricity bills. On Monday, the SSE Airtricity price hike is going to kick in. That is hundreds of thousands of households that are going to be hit with a big jump in their bill. That comes, obviously, after the hikes we have seen from three other companies since the budget was announced last week - a budget in which the Government made a terrible...