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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have a quick question that I expect to be answered with a "Yes" or a "No". Are there really hundreds of thousands of vacant units?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I will allow each guest 30 seconds to outline one aspiration for the budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I thank our guests for their excellent pre-budget submissions and their time. We will take a two-minute recess while the next organisations - the Community Platform, the National Women's Council of Ireland and the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, INOU - take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I thank our guests for joining us today. As I am sure they are aware, these proceedings are being televised. As I told previous participants, this is an evolving process and is the first time it is being done in this way. We have received submissions from the voluntary sector and civil society with a view to informing the budgetary process. It is unusual for the committee to sit on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I will stop you there because I am conscious that Deputy Boyd Barrett must leave for another meeting and I wish to give him an opportunity to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Perhaps Mr. Ginnell will respond first, working back from tax to the self-employed. What was your third point, Deputy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Perhaps Mr. Ginnell would elaborate on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: That point was addressed in the submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It would be useful if the Deputy asked two or three related questions at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: We are fortunate that Deputy Doherty has such an extensive knowledge of Northern Ireland, it brings a lot of additional information to the table.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Would it help if, instead of saying X number of hours per week, to enable flexibility a person could say X number of hours over a number of weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I agree with the way the Deputy is putting questions to each group separately because it does make things more coherent. I am conscious, however, that Deputy Fleming will have questions and I want to give him an opportunity to ask them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have no difficulty with the Deputy talking about the North; I was congratulating him for his knowledge in the area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I do not mean to cut Mr. Ginnell short but I ask him to deal with the specifics of Deputy Doherty's questions rather than the general tax reform issues, which we will discuss early next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: During the Celtic tiger years, the tax on unearned income rather than earned income was lowered. That needs to be addressed now given we do not have any capital gains tax receipts and so on. Much of the reason older people in this society do not suffer from extreme poverty in older age is they tend to own their homes. Have the groups taken into account the impact of property taxes on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I thank the witnesses for attending. I also thank our officials for their excellent work.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I join in Senator Darragh O'Brien's welcome for the result of the children's rights referendum and agree that lessons must be learned. There is a concern for us as politicians and wider civil society that a large portion of civil society could support such a measure, yet there was a low turnout. I suspect that the last couple of days of the campaign brought about a change of heart on the...

Seanad: National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: With the permission of the House, I will share my time with Senator Marie Moloney. I take some credit for my own party in saying the national children's hospital was a key Labour Party commitment in the general election and in the programme for Government. Funding for the project has been ring-fenced by the Government and it will represent the single biggest piece of infrastructure to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I also wish to raise the unfortunate situation that has transpired n Galway. I would like to say one thing in regard to the medical profession. This is not a matter of the failure of the medical profession, it is a matter of the failure of the Legislature. It is unfair to blame the members of the medical profession for the position in which they have been put by the failure of successive...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I ask the Leader to assure the House that he will ask the relevant Minister to make the report of the expert group on the X case known to this House at the earliest possible opportunity. I ask him to put to the Minister for Health that legislation on the matter is needed, not just to give the women of this country clarity but to protect the medical profession.