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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: It has been there since 2020 and I believe it is spending more than the 10% on it as well. That is the minimum requirement; it must be spending at least 10% of the funding on welfare.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is welcome to see additional money being spent in this area, given the commitment of everybody in the room to the issue. I have a number of questions. The Minister can choose to answer those that he wishes. The first relates to housing projections. The Estimates relate to spending this year. Obviously there is a budget provision for next year. We intend to publish new housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister might touch on an issue, although I do not expect him to have a solution to it. I refer to clarity on funding for local authorities, in particular to assist councillors and local authority members to understand how much money is coming in from central government and how much is disappearing in one fund and reappearing in another. Councillors really struggle to have a line of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am directing my question to the Minister's officials as much as I am to him. From my experience of sitting on a finance group in a local authority, it can be very challenging not to know the details. For example, it can be very difficult to keep track of the cash in Dublin city, because of the very significant proportion of our budget required for emergency accommodation to deal with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Chair allow me one last question? The Minister mentioned the tenant in situ scheme. From my experience in my clinic, it is transformative for people coming to us with an eviction notice who are then able to secure housing. I cannot underscore how important the scheme is. The level of openness and ambition that seems to have been available to the scheme in recent years should not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I suggest to the Minister that the Housing Agency must have as much openness and flexibility as the local authorities, because it is responsible for the cost-rental element of it. It takes that little bit longer with the Housing Agency. I will leave it with the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Amendment No. 4 not moved.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Section 4 agreed to.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Amendment No. 5 not moved.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

NEW SECTION

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, after line 25, to insert the following: “Maternity benefit – members of the Houses of the Oireachtas 5. The Minister shall, within 3 weeks of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the payment of maternity benefit to public office holders who are members of either such House and who cease to...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You cannot win.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I make the case for my colleagues, for all colleagues in the Houses of the Oireachtas, in putting forward this amendment.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you for championing the cause. Does anyone else wish to speak on this matter? No.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I absolutely understand the point the Deputy is making. I have had this debate in the Seanad a number of times. The best solution I could find was for them to come forward with a proposal on an all-party basis via a Private Member's Bill and I am still waiting for it. If there is all-party agreement on it, I will be happy to take it, but there will have to be all-party agreement and no...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a few of them.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Well that one is still there.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Creed: We have the increments as well.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am just saying it as it is. I have sympathy for Oireachtas Members, especially those who lost their seats during the Covid-19 pandemic because they could not take up employment. Things were closed down. They had no income. I grant that there is a termination payment when Members leave these Houses. Having said that, I take the Deputy's point on maternity leave. We are bringing...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Creed: Perhaps it falls to those of us who are departing to raise without fear a concern regarding the inequities of the social welfare code as they apply to Members of the Oireachtas. Deputy Sherlock has done so quite eloquently and I agree with him. I heard the Minister's response and her requirement for the cover of all parties coming together to say this is not a tenable situation. It is...