waste collection from a system of competition in the market to competition for the market. We want to recognise that in a cost-of-living crisis the cost of waste disposal is a significant cost for some households, such as those with a member with a disability, caring
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seekers and migrants to deflect anger away from the failure of people like him and the billionaires he represents to address the cost-of-living crisis. He is scapegoating vulnerable immigrants, people seeking asylum or those who are undocumented, including Irish people, in the most horrendous
Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will bring forward a cost-of-living package, considering inflation is far higher than projected on budget day, at 2.8%, and given the findings of the ESRI that the budget has resulted in income losses
under pressure, but the Government can have an inflationary effect which can inadvertently make things more challenging in relation to the cost of living.
That is always a balance one has to try to strike. Full employment can never be taken for granted, as it sometimes
carer's support grant. We are expanding the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance for preschool children. I accept the cost-of-living challenge is real; I do not doubt that. However, I disagree and push back on the idea that we did not take actions
higher than it had projected in the budget. It has got this wrong. People are struggling and people are suffering. A cost-of-living package is desperately needed. The Minister and his colleagues need to get out of the bubble they are in and recognise where ordinary people
challenges that are being encountered will be considered in the development of any new policies. When we had Covid and the cost-of-living crisis, and energy was at its core, the Government was not found wanting. Again, our community and voluntary sector is very resilient
bonuses, not accountability. In this year's budget, many workers got no relief whatsoever. Households are stretched to breaking point during a cost-of-living crisis, yet somehow the Government approved a €108,000 wage increase for the CEO while hard-working people got nothing.
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retired before 2014. They report an erosion of between 55% and 60% in the value of their pensions since 2007 due to cost-of living freezes, the pension levy and retroactive pension cuts introduced in 2015. They were defined benefit pensions built up over as much
This truly is one of the most bizarre Bills I have seen come before the House. In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, at a time when families are pinned to their collar by the highest electricity and energy bills and the highest rents in Europe
refer to the budget of October 2024, when we were on the cusp of an election - there was €400 extra in a cost-of-living payment for disability. There was €300 extra in fuel allowance in one payment alone. The living alone allowance was up €300. Electricity credits
that run to billions and pay increases available to very well-off CEOs because obviously they have to be shielded from any cost-of-living crisis, but for the people on the front line of the Government’s policies, the people who will have to pay those higher
thank Deputy Healy for bringing forward this motion. It is timely that we are discussing a cost-of-living Private Member' motion. The Social Democrats have brought forward a number of measures to try to support people with the ever-increasing rise in the cost of just existing
income families know very well that everything in the garden is not rosy. The Government's amendment does not even acknowledge the cost-of-living crisis that exists. It does not acknowledge the huge financial pressures on families. There is no acknowledgement that budget 2026 created higher levels
taken immediately prior to Committee Stage on Wednesday, 11th February 2026)
Thursday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Cost of Living Crisis, selected by Independent and Parties Technical Group.
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Government is sitting on this and stalling any progress. The stalling is causing huge financial hardship for pensioners already struggling in a cost-of-living crisis. Will the Taoiseach explain what is causing the delays and when these pension increases will finally be paid
month. That is over €3,000 a year. People are hanging on by their fingertips, we are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rents have skyrocketed and the Minister is going to add on €3,000 a year. Who can afford that
even worse, if people could credit that. It will shaft renters. At a time those renters are facing record rents and intense cost-of-living pressures, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the Healy-Rae group and the Lowry group have chosen to gut controls when they should
spiralling rents and evictions. It is renters who will continue to suffer. I do not understand how the Government thinks, in a cost-of-living crisis, that rents should be allowed to rise further. In my view, the Bill essentially amounts to the Government folding the tent
cutting rents, not facilitating them to rise even further. Rents are already out of control and renters are drowning in a cost-of-living crisis. Yet, the Government's response is to tear up what little protection remains and hand a gift to big institutional investors
Government is adding pressure instead of relief. The National Youth Council of Ireland has found that accommodation is now the single biggest cost-of-living issue for students and young people and, alarmingly, two thirds of those aged between 18 and 24 believe they would be better
hurt tens of thousands of households that are already trying to keep their heads above the waterline in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. It is a real difficulty for younger people who are over the income threshold for social housing and do not have
decade and will have a severe impact on renters across the State. At a time when families are already crushed by a cost-of-living crisis, this Bill is not a reset; it is a surrender. The rent-hike Bill of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will allow
reduce university fees? Is the Government committed to fully abolishing university fees? When will this happen? In the context of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, these fees are putting undue pressure on families and students
that they have no option but to go back to work to cover the costs of rent or mortgages or the cost of living. They then need childcare. Baby rooms in childcare services should be the solution but, since the introduction of core funding, the number of baby
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