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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (21 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State for the response. He is correct in saying that the legislation states that, within 12 months of the legislation being enacted, the Minister of State has the discretion to increase it by up to 10%. It is important that I point something out. Even at this early stage of the scheme, while the officials' interpretation is that there is no robust data, there is...

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

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for raising this Topical Issue matter. At the outset, I would like to highlight that the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has responsibility for planning guidelines for onshore wind energy development. Following a recent transfer of functions from this Department, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: This reply is unusually helpful. We normally get two or three pages that never address the issue until the last three lines. I thank the Minister of State for that and for the effort that has been put into giving a meaningful answer. I think he would agree it would a reasonable supposition that whatever guidelines are brought in on land in terms of height versus setback would apply on near...

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

Alan Farrell: I acknowledge all of those measures, particularly the temporary measures. I acknowledge of course the nature of them and their careful impact on the inflation rate. However, part of the reason I asked this question was to do with what I would refer to as ongoing creep, particularly in the inflation on consumer goods, services and fuel, which remains stubbornly high. We are 15 cent or 20...

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

Bernard Durkan: On the same lines, I ask the Minister the extent to which his Department remains vigilant in relation to the actual causes of the inflation affecting a large range of consumer goods. In themselves they do not seem greatly worrying but put together they constitute a fairly sizable impact insofar as the purchaser, the consumer, is concerned and they gradually eat away into the confidence of...

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

Michael McGrath: The dynamics of energy prices have been key in driving the headline inflation rate over recent years. The initial driver of inflation was a surge in energy prices that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This substantially disrupted the supply of energy, in particular of natural gas, of which Russia was a large exporter to Europe. Wholesale gas prices peaked at £4 per therm in...

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

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister. I appreciate those remarks and acknowledge of course that the home energy costs in particular are high because of those futures contracts that were entered into. I hope we will see a further reduction. As I said, the main point of my question was to determine whether additional measures would be introduced to try to lessen the burden of costs that have been borne by...

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

Bernard Durkan: In regard to fuel prices and possible reductions in the international markets, how is it determined that those reductions or increases can be transferred to the consumer, to benefit the consumer? From past experience we know that when increases are on the horizon, they are passed on quickly to the consumer and have a dramatic effect. While almost all consumer goods now are transported in...

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

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputies. We are at a point in the budgetary cycle where we have published the stability programme update. We will have the national economic dialogue next month and then we will have the summer economic statement and will consider all of the issues that the Deputies have raised in deciding on the budgetary parameters. Then, more particularly when deciding on the individual...

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

Catherine Connolly: There is less than one minute left so Deputy Moynihan has 30 seconds just to raise the question.

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

Banking Sector

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

Cormac Devlin: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure independent ATM operators register with the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22616/24]

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

Aindrias Moynihan: The ability to do business with cash is so valuable for so many different people throughout the country and a key part of the ability to do your business in cash is to have access to an ATM network, to be able to get the cash out of the bank. Is the Minister in a position to ensure that all the ATMs would be registered and regulated? Increasingly, ATMs are not associated with the banks but...

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

Michael McGrath: In short, the answer is "yes, Deputy". The access to cash legislation is at a very advanced stage of preparation. We need to consult the European Central Bank because some of the matters in the Bill are relevant to the functions of the ECB but I expect we will be sending a copy of the Bill to it in the next number of weeks. In essence the Bill will provide for the registration and...

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)

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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