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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: ...We would have gone much further in tackling child poverty to ensure that parents got one parent family payment to the age of 12 instead of the existing age of seven, and jobseeker's transitional payment until the age of 15. We would have given fuel allowance to low-income families on working family payments, and increased qualifying child payment by €10 and €5 for over and...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...development companies throughout the country. Their response was extraordinary but they needed more boots on the ground and, therefore, we were last year given an additional allocation of €10 million to employ additional people in 2023. I am glad to say that allocation has been continued into 2024, along with the allocation of an additional €1 million for the volunteer...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Helen McEntee: The justice allocation for 2024 of €3.5 billion is a real boost in helping us build stronger, safer communities. We are doing this across a range of areas, including supporting and strengthening An Garda Síochána, establishing community safety partnerships across the country and operating a zero-tolerance approach domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. We are also...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...ago I set out an ambition to deliver a meaningful reduction in childcare costs for families all over our country. I am pleased that today we have have been able to deliver that, with an average 25% reduction in the cost of childcare in budget 2024. This change will be effective from September of next year and will mean we have halved childcare costs in the space of two years. Across a...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am glad to have the opportunity to provide details of the additional €195 million that will be invested in services for 2024, bringing the total investment to €2.8 billion. Since my appointment to this role, my overarching ambition has always been to provide and improve a range of disability services available to both adults and children. This year's financial allocation for...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...time, made a real and meaningful difference to them. It also means that, this year, people with a household income below €100,000 will see their fees halved; they will actually see their fees reduced to €1,500 because they will get the €1,000 off and they can also get the €500 credit from the SUSI system as well. In addition, all student grants will...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: .... This Government has halved the cost of childcare in the past two budgets, ensuring that families receiving even the minimum level of subsidy under the national childcare scheme will receive up to €5,000. Once a child enrols in primary school, they will benefit from the care and expertise of our excellent staff, now employed in their highest numbers ever. A capital budget of...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the Government has given up on the idea of councils and approved housing bodies delivering the volume of homes required. The Minister talked about increasing the renter's tax credit, but there is only €250 extra. That will be swallowed up by rent increases, both inside and outside the rent pressure zones, and ultimately, it will be paid to the landlord. As for the landlord's tax...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the construction sector, the first ever vacancy grants, the first ever cost-rental homes and the first affordable homes in over a decade. We are building more new social homes than we have in 50 years. Ireland is back building and under this budget we will build even more, with our highest ever capital investment of over €5 billion. In addition, we are also using the long-term...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: ..., in my role as Minister of State with responsibility for local government and planning, I will go through some of the key elements. We have made a significant contribution of €421.9 million to the local government sector in 2024. A significant portion of this contribution will cover the impact of the national pay agreements on the payroll of local authorities, ensuring local...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...for this Government. A key element of this approach is our healthy Ireland framework, at the core of which is the healthy Ireland fund. Established in 2017 with an initial annual budget of €5 million, the fund is used to support our partners, including include Departments and agencies, NGOs, community organisations and 31 local authorities, in delivering programmes focused on...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: ...Ireland, like almost every country in the world, has seen a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom of our society to the top over the past few decades. In Ireland today, two billionaires own 50% more wealth than the bottom half of this country's population. We should think on this and absorb it. This is not an accident but is a political decision made by successive governments to...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...disappointed that their pension promise campaign, seeking an increase of €30 per week, simply fell on deaf ears. Staying with the disability sector, there was palpable shock yesterday that the €500 per annum cost-of-disability payment for last year was reduced to €400 even though the Government’s own report from Indecon clearly showed that depending on the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...who lives at home with their parents. They are the locked-out generation who cannot afford to own or rent. What did they get from the Government yesterday? They got a tax break that increased by €250, provided they get no other State supports on their housing, but landlords get a tax break of €600, rising to €1,000, four times the size of the increase for the young...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...Government increased the rental tax credit to support renters, we need to reduce or freeze rent to affordable levels and stop the profiteering of vulture landlords who are likely to gobble up the €750 credit with rent increases. At the same time, landlords who stay in rental markets are in line for tax credits of €600, €800 and €1,000 for every tenant. This...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...Government represents. The landlords got a significant tax break. The corporate tax avoiders got an extension of their research and development tax credit, or tax break in reality, and the multimillionaire angel investors got a bespoke tax break. It was a bad budget for people with disabilities, for children and for those on hospital waiting lists. I want to focus on a few specific...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...advice. We are in a very unusual time where we have had a very long period since the financial crash of very low interest rates and now a sudden switch. Bond yields in the United States are up over 5% while in Ireland they are up 3.2%. The economic future, even next year, that we have to plan for, is very uncertain. We have listened intently to the Fiscal Advisory Council, FAC. We...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...with higher costs, like wages and energy to protect jobs and ensure they do not have to pass all these costs on to the consumer; one-off measures to help households with high energy costs this winter, including three €150 energy credits; tax credits to help struggling mortgage holders, renters and small landlords; more investment across the board in healthcare, education and...