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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (8 Feb 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...realistic sustainable mobility options. Public transport plays a key role in the delivery of this goal. To support this objective, under budget 2024, a funding package of approximately €613.463 million has been secured for public service obligation and Local Link services. This package includes funding for the continuation of the 20% fare reduction on PSO services, the extension...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Feb 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...rates for different roles in services. The JLC is continuing to meet to discuss possible changes to employment regulation orders first introduced in 2022, and the committee recently published its new draft proposals, indicating a 5% increase in all current minimum rates of pay. The Government is committed to the continued improvement of pay and conditions for early years educators...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...in scaling up Ireland's international climate finance in recent years. Ireland’s International Climate Finance Roadmap sets out how we will deliver on the target of providing at least €225 million annually in climate finance by 2025. The Roadmap is rooted in Ireland’s effective climate finance to-date, which focuses primarily on supporting adaptation in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Food Security (30 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...’s efforts to ensure that countries most affected by food insecurity can continue to access the critical supplies they need. In September, as part of a package of direct Irish support to Ukraine of €26 million, we announced €2 million in assistance for the Grain from Ukraine initiative launched by President Zelenskyy to provide grain to at least 5 million people in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 97 and 141 together. The Government provided a total of over €100 million in direct assistance to Somalia and other countries in the Horn of Africa in 2022, in response to the devastating humanitarian crisis caused by drought and conflict.  We have also taken a lead internationally in drawing attention to the devastating impact of the crisis and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Reliefs (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...relief in the form of a corporation tax credit related to the cost of production of certain films. The credit is granted at a rate of 32% and is available on qualifying expenditure of up to €70 million for any project or film. The Finance Act 2018 introduced a short-term, tapered regional uplift for productions being made in areas designated under the state aid regional...

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...from full and complete information about any deductions from their claim settlements. Finally, the Bill provides for technical amendments to the European Union (Insurance and Reinsurance) Regulations 2015, which underpin the temporary run-off regime, TRR, for UK and Gibraltar-based insurers as a result of Brexit. These changes will guarantee service continuity, and thus protection, for...

Food Price Rises: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ..., earlier in fact than most other governments. We brought in measures worth €2.4 billion to help this year. We introduced a package of significant measures in February, costing more than €500 million, that were designed to ease the impact of rising costs on households, particularly those on fixed and low incomes. These measures included energy credits, excise and VAT...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (11 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...authorities but which represent a vital piece of infrastructure for rural residents. The LIS was relaunched in its own right in 2017. Between 2017 and 2021, the Department allocated €80 million to local authorities for improvement works on these roads. It is acknowledged how important the scheme is for people in rural areas and for farm families in particular. There is no...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (4 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...this in context, 67,000 employers availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, in respect of almost 690,000 employees. That is a phenomenal number of employees that were directly supported by this scheme. To date, 52,000 employers availed of EWSS in respect of 733,000 employees. I am also confident that in these unprecedented circumstances the EWSS was appropriately calibrated in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...has intervened on four occasions to address the increases in the cost of living, at a combined cost of approximately €2.1 billion. First, budget 2022 contained an income tax package of €520 million. On the expenditure side, a social welfare package worth €558 million was introduced including, among other measures, a general €5 rate increase for working-age...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: The first financial resolution provides for a temporary reduction in VAT on gas and electricity. At present, gas and electricity have a 13.5% VAT rate applied. This will be reduced to a 9% VAT rate from 1 May to 31 October 2022. The second financial resolution provides for an extension and enhancement of the excise duty decreases on mineral oil taxes the Government provided for in...

Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...to stay with the same insurer, thereby ending the unfair practice of a loyalty penalty. This will make Ireland a leader in consumer protection as the first EU country to introduce such a ban. There are 2.2 million car insurance policies and 1.3 million home insurance policies in the Irish market. The Central Bank found that home insurance customers who remain with the same company for...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...groups, increasing opportunities for women to become partners in their own healthcare. Women's health is the top priority for this Government and it is strongly supported by budget 2022, with €31 million in additional funding for the development of women's health. There is €8.6 million extra for continued implementation of the national maternity strategy. Some €9...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...for a significant number of people. To give Deputies a sense of the market, according to Central Bank figures, at the end of 2020, the moneylending sector had over 283,000 customers with €141 million in outstanding loans. Research carried out in 2020 shows that the customers of moneylenders are more likely to be women, to have dependent children and to be in their late 30s to early...

Seanad: Credit Union Sector: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...say that. We all know how strong the credit union movement is and we are here to help it. The biggest issue I see is that it has assets of about €20 billion and loans issued of just over €5 billion. It is only lending 26% of its assets. There is no limit on that. There was a time the figure was over 50%. The Central Bank has not changed that. The credit unions are just...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...: — that the annual rate of consumer price inflation, as measured by the European Union's Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, has picked up sharply in recent months, reaching a multi-decade high of 5.7 per cent in December; — that the recent increase in inflation is partly a result of temporary factors related to the pandemic, which are expected to ease gradually over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Discussion (16 Dec 2021)

Seán Fleming: ..., the Bill supplements the Government’s intention to tackle the loyalty penalty by examining the Central Bank’s review and taking any action deemed necessary in light of its findings. There are currently 2.2 million private motor insurance and 1.3 million home insurance policyholders in the country. The Central Bank review found those who stayed with the same insurer for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Nov 2021)

Seán Fleming: ...tourism sector by instancing the case of a single restaurant having nearly 2,400 cancellations. That is a phenomenal blow to any business. The funding for tourism in budget 2022, amounting to €288.5 million, represents an increase of €67.6 million over the 2021 allocation. It includes €50 million for further tourism business continuity supports to assist strategic...