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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: The information is being worked on at the moment-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: -----to provide updated projections out to 2030.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I do not have the updated information. That is being worked on. The previous-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: It is important to say-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: A charge has been made. It is important to allow the-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: It is important to allow that to be clarified in the context of the charge that was made.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: The information can be provided to the committee, privately.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I think it will be in the interests of the committee, Chair, that the chief economist is able to set out the factual position.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish the Minister for Finance, Deputy Chambers, well in his new role. The Housing Commission has stated that we are 250,000 homes short at the moment. On the basis of the allocations and performance so far, what year do the Ministers expect us to be in a situation where there is no shortage of housing?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Will that be before the budget?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I cannot see how we are going to address the shortage of 250,000 homes. I will move on to my other questions, if that is okay. My first question relates to public sector pay. The current agreement will run until halfway through 2026. We can see there are quite consistent allocations for budgetary decisions that will be allocated out to 2030. Can we take it that a future pay agreement...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not baked in. Okay.
- 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...