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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: At least you are admitting in the answer back that it has never been done. At least you are admitting that. What you are offering as a solution to the housing crisis is a solution from a taxation perspective, which you admit has never been done.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A new idea.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You know well-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: God forbid.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: They are your own words. The Deputy knows well that we have taxes on property, most of which he wants to get rid of. He wants to get rid of the property tax, which is the main form of taxation we have for wealth that is held in the form of property.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a tiny one.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, but if we were to increase it, you would be against that as well. All you have to offer is a solution that you admit has not been done before. As the Housing Commission says, this needs to be done in phases and this is what we will do. As I have said already, we have shown our ability to increase capital investment in such a way that is the reason, while acknowledging the great...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he has any plan to extend the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to public bodies such as RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29546/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What plans does the Minister have to extend the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to public bodies such as RTÉ? As soon as the RTÉ scandal broke we in Sinn Féin called on the Government to bring the broadcaster under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the State auditor. When will this be done?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh. On 7 May last, the Government agreed in principle to the recommendation of the expert advisory committee which conducted the review of the governance and culture of RTÉ to assign the Comptroller and Auditor General as auditor of RTÉ. The Minister Deputy Catherine Martin, in a statement accompanying the publication of the expert advisory committee...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important this is done. It is important that it is done in conjunction with the future funding model of RTÉ. There is no better form of financial oversight and it would immediately increase the transparency and accountability needed to restore confidence. This is why we produced the necessary legislation in the weeks following the scandal. It is a simple and direct...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I look forward to the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight tomorrow evening. I am sure the Minister understands why we need the figures for the budget preparation. I refer to what the Minister stated is provided for health. He is providing €1.5 billion in funding for the health service this year. That will be in the base for 2025, but the Government is then providing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Last year's budget represented the highest level of funding that has ever been provided to the Department of Health. At that point, more than €6 billion of additional funding was provided to it, compared with where we were in 2019. What has happened since is that the level of additional health expenditure in the first half of this year exceeded any expectations that I could have had....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What has been announced today for the health service does not provide for any measures to increase capacity or improve services: it simply allows it to stand still. The capital budget outlined in the statement leaves the budget short by €1.5 billion, based on the targets of the national development plan, in terms of the 5% of GNI*. Sinn Féin wanted to see a change of course...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh made a call for more capital spending, more money for the health service and more money for social protection. They are just three of the items she listed. All of those would very considerably add to the size of the overall budget package, which already proposes spending growth of 6.9% compared with a year ago. The bigger the Deputy makes the package, in the way she...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: We all agree with that. May he rest in peace.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Budget 2025

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public expenditure measures he is considering in the forthcoming budget to address infrastructure and public service deficits and provide for demographic change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29952/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows on from the previous one. If we take housing as an example, the Housing Commission states that need to almost double the number of houses we deliver each year. If I understand what the Minister says in the summer economic statement, there is only going to be €1.4 billion in additional capital spending. Last year's housing package was €5 billion. How on...