2. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide details of his proposed public spending efficiency task force; its terms of reference and membership, and when the task force will commence its work. [75204/26]
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The Minister announced in the budget two weeks ago that he plans to establish a public spending efficiency task force. Will he place on the record of the House the terms of reference of that task force and when it is intended to start its work?
This seems to me to be an admission that the Minister's Department is simply not working. Clearly, one of the core objectives of his Department should be to drive efficiency in public spending and to drive accountability on public spending. If this is an admission, I welcome the Minister's candour that the function of the Department simply is not working. As Minister, he needs to take responsibility for that. We have…
It should be one of the Minister's core objectives to do exactly that and to have value for money and accountability in public spending. As I said in my earlier contribution, public spending has increased significantly over the past six years. Much of that has been unplanned. The Minister and his predecessors need to take some responsibility for that.
The Minister said in the expenditure report for the budget that h…
It is cynical.
What were they striking for?
The Government is respecting industrial relations now.
So, last week's strikes were not warranted and industrial action was not warranted but now it has to be respected. Now, industrial action has to be respected.
13. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [68629/26]
I am pleased to speak on the Finance (No. 2) Bill on behalf of the Labour Party. On the face of it, Ireland is a country that is doing well. From the outside looking in, though, the headline numbers paint an incomplete picture. As someone who is proud of his country, it would be churlish of me not to recognise some important facts and some progress that has been made. In a few short years, we have gone from jobless r…
On behalf of the Labour Party, I join the Minister and Deputy Cullinane in extending our sincere sympathies to the wider English family and to the people of Waterford who are going through a desperate situation at the moment. As the Minister will know, I have been dealing in my community with the scourge of drug debt intimidation for far too long. We know it takes lives and destroys the lives of those who are left be…
I have heard a lot from Government representatives, especially over the past few weeks as yesterday's strike came into view, that they respect public servants and that many of them are, naturally enough, related to public servants but when does respect become real delivery? Over the past two weeks, we have seen the Taoiseach and the Minister for public expenditure essentially taunt public sector workers and question …
I move:
That Dáil Éireann:
notes that:
— the Government allowed the Public Sector Pay agreement to expire in June 2026, leaving over 400,000 workers with no collective pay agreement for the first time since 2010;
— since then, across the public service, trade unions have balloted their members, and there has been overwhelming support in favour of taking industrial action; and
— no provision was made in Budget 20…
I thank colleagues across the House for their support for the Labour Party motion. I will provide this advice in an effort to be helpful to the Minister, who I know is back having a briefing with ministerial officials. I also know the officers of the public sector committee of congress are meeting at this time. The best thing the Minister and his colleagues can do this evening is to instruct the Minister of State, De…
On the elevated cost of home heating oil, as my colleague Deputy Ó Murchú mentioned earlier, in Louth this week, the average cost of filling an oil tank is just over €1,600, and it is rising. This is leading to enormous anxiety, not just across rural parts of my constituency. My constituency, as the Minister of State will know, also has Ireland's two largest towns, Drogheda and Dundalk. The reliance on kerosene to he…
Yesterday was a good day to bury bad news. As the hapless culture Minister cut funding for RTÉ to save face after the culture card chaos, it emerged that there would be no living wage in one of the richest countries in the world. The Government deigned to allow the 79 cent an hour increase to go ahead on the minimum wage but once again it has been shaken down by the hospitality sector and other sectors addicted to lo…
-----and I call on other colleagues to join us in doing the same in solidarity with the workers here.
Will the Government drop the arbitrary preconditions and commit to engaging in good faith with public sector trade unions on pay? Will it confirm that future pay increases for public sector workers will, at a very minimum, protect their wages against inflation?
Let us be honest. If Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had their way without the bulwark against low pay that we introduced in the Low Pay Commission, there is absolutely no way that the minimum wage would have increased year on year in recent years. The Minister and others have shown their true colours in that regard before. We know that working people are not a priority. This week’s budget was an opportunity to help move t…
Those are asset rich-----
It is Fine Gael's fault.
There you have it: the first budget of two from soundbite Simon and Jack GPT. We expected little and they have not disappointed. A tenner on the pension is not even enough to keep up with inflation. The two grand on the rent-a-room relief will, in fact, cost students the same in rent increases. A help-to-buy top-up will only drive house prices higher for developers. As electricity prices soar, hundreds of thousands o…
This issue has attracted a considerable amount of political attention and time in this House and elsewhere over the recent period. The time and attention it has received is disproportionate to the problem that the Minister seems to want to resolve, if it is a problem at all. I am one of those people who is married and who does not have children.
This will directly affect me, but I take a contrary view. This is not-----
----- the greatest inequality ever to face Ireland. The fact of the matter is that, by definition-----
-----it is a privilege to inherit money and a privilege to inherit the kind of money that-----