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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy very much for raising what is a very important issue for the school and for education policy in general. I know she agrees that all the girls and boys who go to that school and their teachers deserve support and recognition in the learning received and the teaching provided. It is therefore very important that this issue be raised here today. I will comment on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For all that, schools are generally underfunded. This specific school is underfunded to the tune of €125,000, which is needed for heating, cleaning and insurance costs. The CRC has provided a backstop for the shortfall in money coming from the Department of Education. The Minister can tell the House if this has changed but the information I have been given is that Department is...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Harkin. I thank the Minister of State and everyone else who spoke on the motion. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement on this. Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I acknowledge that Deputy Nash of the Labour Party has an amendment in. For people who go into business in their local areas, there seems to be a disconnect from what I would call the people in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Amendment to amendment put.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time this evening.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 11.54 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar mheán lae. Sitting suspended at 11.54 a.m. and resumed at 12 noon.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for drafting this motion, which I fully support. The motion proposes maintaining the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector. This is in the wider context of the huge increases in the past 12 to 18 months in the cost of doing business but specifically this morning, we are looking at the 9% VAT rate. In that context, let us look at our VAT rate on hospitality in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas and I compliment the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. I was delighted to meet Richard Gleeson, the vintners' representative, and Michael Foley, of Foley's Bar in Cashel. They run two fabulous establishments, one in Clonmel and one in Cashel as do the other publicans and the other people who were there yesterday. Some 600 such establishments have...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: There is no basis for that comment, Deputy.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank the Acting Chair. First, I think Deputy Fitzmaurice and the Independent Group of Deputies for putting forward this very worthy motion at this time. The Minister of State should remember one thing which is that all of these restaurants, cafés, pubs and hairdressers are small businesses. That is why the Government has them crushed. It is trying to crush them out of business....

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: I was down there two weeks ago.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: They came up yesterday. In one minute I will give the Minister of State time to talk and I will not interrupt his talking. They came up here yesterday out of their goodwill and took another few pounds out of their pockets. They were brought up here a couple of days before the budget, the VAT 9 group, and were codded to their eyeball by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. The Minister of...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The hospitality sector in Clare has been speaking and highlighting its struggles for the past number of months now. I pay tribute to Maurice Walsh and Michael Vaughan for doing exactly that. They have said that they are facing an Armageddon this winter if the Government does not respond to their loud pleas. We know that Shannon Airport has been doing fantastic and its passenger numbers are...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: I welcome the opportunity to respond to the issues raised. I acknowledge the protests which came to Dublin yesterday and I believe I met all of the representative bodies many times in dealing with this, including the local businesses in my own community. I would like to acknowledge the role of the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, Deputy Ring, in introducing the 9% VAT rate originally at a...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Apologies have been received from Deputies Patrick Costello and Seán Sherlock. Deputy Brian Leddin is substituting for Deputy Costello. On 15 October 2024, the Dáil ordered that the Supplementary Estimates for public services in respect of the following Votes be referred to this committee for consideration: Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and Vote...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Chair for facilitating our meeting today. I thank the committee for making time to consider this Supplementary Estimate for the children, equality, disability, integration and youth Vote group. We need a Supplementary Estimate at this point principally due to the expectation that the Vote will breach its total allocation before the end of November 2024. The Supplementary...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I will now call members according to the speaking rota circulated earlier. Deputy Coveney is first. He has five minutes and should remember that is also to allow for the Minister and Minister of State to reply.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Perhaps. We may be lenient.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Coveney for his questions and kind remarks, and his recognition of the work that officials here and the many officials in my Department do every day for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. On the first point on IPAS processing times, I am not able to give the most up-to-date figures because the Minister, Deputy McEntee, deals with processing through the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: There are a couple of hundred. We have 5,300 children in foster care, which is 90% of all children in care. I might get an official to give Deputy Coveney the exact figure. It is a couple of hundred.