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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand. I was wondering if a figure was baked in or is to come out of the to-be-allocated funding. I wish to talk about the health budget and what was done yesterday, which I welcomed. Will the Minister admit at this stage that everybody, including members of this committee, the representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, and the CEO of the Department of Health, was...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The difference is that the health sector was deliberately underfunded. I will tell the Minister why I am asking. Since then, we have had a moratorium on the hiring of staff. I cannot understand why there would be a deliberate underfunding because we know that, when there is a moratorium on staff, not only does it add to the pain and distress of patients and staff in the system, it also...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That would mean the CEO-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is there a moratorium in place?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister is saying-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Why are there so many people waiting on panels? Even in my own county, Mayo University Hospital, Belmullet hospital, and Ballina hospital are all waiting to fill positions but have been told they cannot do so because there is a moratorium in place. The same is true of a whole lot of other areas in primary care.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: What I do not accept is that the CEO of the health service warned the Minister that there was deliberate underfunding and then it happened. Now the Minister has sought to correct it. I am seeing forced wastage there because we knew from last year this was going to have to be done. It was going to have to be corrected. The Minister sought to correct it yesterday with the €1.5...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: What did he use?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: What was presented in last year's budget presented punitive risks to the health service and the health of people in my constituency and elsewhere. I do not think there was a need for it and I welcome the fact the Minister corrected it yesterday. It should have been corrected a year ago. There was a gaping hole in the budget but we will agree to disagree on that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister claims in his statement that the Government has been successful in addressing inflation and public infrastructure deficits. In terms of inflation, 671,000 people are still living in poverty in this State and more than 188,000 of them are children. Pensioners, carers and people with disabilities are worse off today than they were four years ago. That is what the evidence shows....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I think the facts speak for themselves. I will come back in if we have another round.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I want a "Yes" or "No" answer-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I want confirmation of two things. I ask the Minister to confirm that the allocation for new measures is less in this economic statement than it was last year. It is €1.8 billion this year and it was €2 billion last year. Is that correct? This is for new measures overall.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is much less this year because of the pay deal. Is that the case?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister to give us a note.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is the same as it was last year-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: -----even taking inflation, etc., into account. On the capital budget, I see it as being €1.5 billion short based on the 5% of GNI* committed to when the review took place in 2021. Is that a correct reading of it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is true. I just want to open the debate with the Minister.
- Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I did not intend to speak on this amendment but I will do so because a very interesting debate has commenced since I came into the Chamber. I came in here intending to speak on amendments Nos. 7 to 12, inclusive, which seek to give effect to another High Court decision - in the case of A & B v. the International Protection Office and the Minister - which was delivered in March of...