near the budget announcement next week, there is no doubt about the demands on the Government with the cost-of-living crisis, with families and the elderly severely squeezed financially at this time. Tillage and dairy farmers are under enormous pressure. Independent Ireland has also called
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just about the climate; it is about the extortionate cost of energy in this country. We face a climate crisis and a cost-of-living crisis and the solutions to both are inextricably linked. If this Government is serious about solving these crises, it must show urgency
timeframes and addressing the delays. We must ensure speedy investment in critical infrastructure that is green, clean and essential in tackling the cost of living and the climate crisis we face. Mar a deireann an seanfhocal, éist le fuaim na habhann agus gheobhaidh tú breac. Ach nílimid
sure that people can keep some of that money in their pockets so that it can go into the local economy. The cost-of-living crisis demands action. That starts with tackling the rip-off in the insurance sector
expected. I welcome the opportunity to speak to this House on the motion concerning insurance in the context of cost of living. This is an issue of immediate and real relevance to Irish households, to our small and medium enterprises and to the long-term competitiveness
years and for 39 years these companies have ripped off me and everyone else in this State. People are struggling with the cost of living. They are struggling to put food on the table, to pay the rent and to keep the lights on and everyone needs
this in terms of how we will tackle these runaway profits.
The motion is being debated in the context of a cost-of-living crisis in terms of housing, rents and grocery prices which are three times the rate of inflation. Meat prices, in particular, have increased. According
could be three increases in the year. The cost rise is absolutely galloping ahead, and all of this is happening during a cost-of-living crisis. The worst part of this situation is being carried by ordinary workers and families, especially those on low and middle incomes. They
insurance companies and demand fair pricing, address excessive profits in the sector, recognise the role of high insurance costs in driving the cost-of-living crisis, and ensure transparency and accountability in all future reforms.
As I have said previously, we must deliver for the people who elect
that there is a €250 million funding gap and, as a result, commuters who are already crippled by rising rents and the cost of living are going to face fare hikes. I want the Minister to commit to retaining the reductions in public transport fares as part
olds and 17-year-olds do not deserve to get the minimum wage - the inadequate minimum wage - in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The Minister is saying that people who go to work and do the same work as the workers next door to them
Deputy will be aware, the last number of budgets included some specific measures to assist disabled people with the rising cost of living. As part of budget 2025, for example, a €400 disability support grant for people in receipt of disability allowance, invalidity pension or blind pension
their payment.
We know that disabled people are at a much higher risk of poverty, have lower employment rates and a higher cost of living and we want to address that. The national human rights strategy has tasked my Department with dealing a strategic focus network, including people
saying to the Minister is that he should deal with the reality. The fact is that people are drowning under a cost-of-living crisis. Things have got worse in the last year - that is just a fact - and they are about to get even worse again because
Indeed. In relation to the matters that Deputy Doherty has just raised, we are well aware of the challenge that the cost of living is posing for so many. I would make the point that for every budget I have brought into this House, he has always criticised
created a two-tier public transport system. Passengers who rely on private operators, many in rural and urban areas, are denied the cost-of-living supports offered to others. It is essential that commercial bus operators are treated similarly from a competitiveness perspective. This is not the situation
face of an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and a student accommodation crisis that has seen more students and families forced to pay upwards of €14,000 for a single year's accommodation, and despite having contested the general election on a platform of reducing college fees
that.
Efforts have been made to look at eligibility for SUSI grants to ensure they can play a role in the cost of living for students going to college. The Government is well aware of the sensitivity of the decision we will make about registration fees for students
safe, regulated working conditions. That is not acceptable in today's modern economy when so many workers are dealing with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
The Bill seeks to address this by empowering the Labour Court to appoint employer or worker representatives to a joint labour committee
still funded by local charities. I thank them for their dedication and hard work on this. However, with the current cost of living many charities are finding it harder and harder to keep raising funds for vital services. Many people believe that if patients in the north west
cent;
— the CSO data is based on 2023 income data, and therefore does not reflect the Government's full response to the cost of living that were contained in Budget 2024 and Budget 2025;
— overall, the last two budgets each contained the largest social welfare packages
have to say it because we have to break it down into the choices that we have. The Government has choices.
The cost-of-living situation is chronic. I have never seen it as bad. A teacher has told me of a situation, and I support
average rental price in Dublin is over half the industrial wage. If we take into account all the cost-of-living increases, particularly relating to food, they have been well discussed. We have brought forward motions in relation to this. My colleague, Deputy Nash, has done great work
systemic change. This has been ignored and instead the easy options were taken with gimmicks and promises of double payments. With no cost-of-living package this year, it seems we are pulling the ladder up behind us.
We know from decades of evidence that poverty scars childhood
five children, or more than 225,000, lives in a family below the poverty line when housing costs are accounted for. The cost-of-living crisis is deepening, with annualised food price inflation in August up by 5%, and for the first time in the history
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