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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That completes questions to the Minister for Finance.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (21 May 2024)

Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (21 May 2024)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024)

Wind Energy Guidelines

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht teacht isteach agus é seo a thógáil. It is fitting that today, when I did something I only do once a week and collected my post in Leinster House, I got Government notice of statutory instruments designating special areas of conservation in County Galway, for the attention of land owners and land users. These are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Economic Data

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which positive conclusions can be drawn from this country's economic performance when considered alongside other eurozone countries and all other European countries; if the methodology for the measurement of the economy here continues to be robust and accurate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22705/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that this economy continues to perform well when considered in the overall European context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22987/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: These questions seek to ascertain the extent to which the Minister has confidence in the robustness of the performance of this jurisdiction's economy when compared to other eurozone countries and non-eurozone countries.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 237 together. The economic performance across the EU and Ireland was somewhat subdued last year amid weak global trade and GDP growth. In 2023, GDP grew by a modest 0.4% in the euro area and EU, while Irish GDP recorded a contraction of 3.2%. GDP growth in the euro area and Ireland is projected to pick up this year, though remaining below...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for that reply. To what degree does he, as he obviously does, continue to monitor the cause or causes of inflation, whether imported or generated nationally? To what extent can measures be taken at this stage to identify those tendencies? I ask this particularly since it seems to be fashionable nowadays to say it is inflation and everybody knows it is inflation. We do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: We monitor inflation at the headline level but also the components of inflation quite closely, as would be expected. Every time a publication is issued by the Central Statistics Office and Eurostat, it is examined by officials in my Department, who report to me, give me a summary of them and their interpretation of the underlying trends. Of course, there is a difference between the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In the context of previous experiences this country has had when criticised internationally on the basis of the system we were using to measure the economic forces and trends at work here, which were sometimes quite dismissive, with references to leprechaun economics and so on and so forth, is the Minister absolutely certain we can robustly withstand any criticism that might come from such...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: The truth is that GDP is measured in Ireland in exactly the same way as in every other European country, but because we have a very large multinational sector, we believe it is important to have other measures of the economy as well. This is why we have MDD and GNI* and we publish all this information regularly. The agreed international measure of economic performance, though, whether that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Data (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Inflation Rate

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on his Department's efforts to reduce inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22752/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains confident that budgetary measures taken here are adequately focused in order to discourage inflation, self-generated or imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22706/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains confident that budgetary measures taken here are adequately focused in order to discourage inflation, self-generated or imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22988/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (21 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: My question relates to the ongoing efforts by the Minister's Department to reduce inflation. Significant domestic and international factors have reduced inflation over the recent period, which I acknowledge. I believe, though, that more needs to be done in this regard. My question relates to what measures the Minister is proposing to introduce in the coming months in an effort to reduce...