costs or properly fund the public services our communities depend on. In Waterford, families really are struggling with rent, childcare and the cost of living. They looked to this budget for hope and for help and what they got was another round of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil
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pensioners, which is outrageous in light of the cuts that have already happened in electricity credits, and given the cost-of living crisis we are experiencing.
Believe it or not, it only gets worse. The Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has finally admitted what women have been
what is required.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul said the increase of €16 per week was needed to cover the cost-of-living pressures currently being experienced by those on low incomes.
Yesterday, the Government gave away €700 million to fast food chains like McDonald
Government could have helped the squeezed middle and the working poor, but what did it do? In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rents will go up from March, the local property tax has just gone up, and electricity prices are going up at the same
constituency offices, they know how hard people are working and how much they are struggling to make ends meet with the cost of living. Despite this, the Government ignores them. If the Government was going to end the measures put in place last year, it should have
people and has designed a progressive budget that delivers permanent and targeted social welfare measures that will shield the most vulnerable against cost-of-living rises. I am pleased to be able to provide for a Christmas bonus for 1.5 million recipients of long-term social welfare schemes
after year. We called on the Government to deliver effective measures to tackle child poverty. That means targeted and universal measures.
The cost-of-living crisis has brought so many pressures on so many households. Many who never thought they would be in this situation now find themselves
that lesson, that expectation and that bedrock of life has been shattered for an entire generation. The Government has made the extortionate cost of living the new normal, crushing people's hopes and even aspirations. That is what this budget is about. It is not normal
kept. These are the working poor, the most exposed by the decision not to make any extra payments to cover the cost of living in 2026.
We did not hear from the Minister earlier about the household benefits package going up, for example. It has not gone
want clean, cheap energy for the many, not the few, and we want to see a permanent reduction in the cost of living and with regard to energy in particular, then we have to do things differently
less than the €1,000 in reduced fees last year. I do not want to hear the excuse about it being a cost-of-living measure. The Government parties went to the voters last year promising this reduction. It misled them and now it is not keeping
workers. There is nothing for low- and middle-income earners. There is nothing for renters. There is nothing to alleviate the cost of living. There is not a thing in this budget for that. On housing, there is no increase in the delivery of affordable or cost-rental
other vulnerable people, particularly in early years education. It could have provided a bit more to help those dealing with the increased cost of living. The measures that have been announced in these areas are so incremental as to have no meaningful effect. Instead, we have helped wealthy
previous Governments going back to 2009. That is not charity; it is just simple justice for those people.
With regard to the cost of living, the reality on the ground at the supermarkets is that inflation is still above 5%. A family pack of chicken costing
initiatives and various other measures enclosed in that agreement.
There is one area that, as a follow-on with regard to the cost of living, needs to be reviewed and amended, that being, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. If we recall last weekend, the wind howled
participants who provide the same data as the recipients but who do not get the weekly payment have significantly deteriorated given the cost-of-living crisis.
According to the data the Department has collected, 51% of those who do not receive the BIA live in enforced deprivation compared
drain of mass emigration of many of our most creative young people who are effectively being driven out of here by the cost-of-living crisis and are going to live in less expensive but creative cities which is sucking the energy and life out of many
favour of transparency, for example, in the grocery sector and food. When it comes to the economy generally, or the cost-of-living crisis, the Government has supported the arguments around transparency and the need for it. Our simple question is: why do we not then have transparency
shortens their own lives and reduces their ability to provide the care they are so dedicated to providing? There is a cost-of-living crisis, but it disproportionately affects carers. The State must step up and ensure no carers are living in poverty. We need a change
support. When they get that help, it often comes very late and is not enough to keep pace with the rising cost of living.
I was contacted in advance of this motion by a woman from my constituency. I will call her Laura - I generally
food and heat and 23% missing a rent or mortgage payment. Research by the Vincentian Partnership in April 2022, before the cost-of-living crisis, showed that income supports for carers were inadequate and caring households incurred additional weekly expenditure of €244 per week. This effectively wiped
what we do and have the added stress of having to depend on our partners financially. We also then have the cost-of-living crisis on our hands with the expense of ESB, food, petrol, private therapies, various resource to help with regulating etc. I am lucky
explain to those who work for such organisations providing such vital services why they are not being paid on time during a cost-of-living crisis? Why has there, apparently, been no sanction for this money from the Departments of justice or public expenditure? I think
decrease will only be €500. The confusion and concern about student contribution fees is unacceptable and was completely avoidable. There is a cost-of-living crisis and families and students are staring at a very long and cold winter. In the Social Democrats' alternative budget, which
happening again. It is bike shed Groundhog Day.
This is a slap in the face for hardworking families hammered by a relentless cost-of-living crisis, households for whom every single euro counts, and who now hear the Taoiseach's Government continues to squander their hard-earned money
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