Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-11-29
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Aisling Dolan (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

-----and there is a totally different ball game. How does Sinn Féin stand over its councillors when they vote against housing? How does that work?
This is a cost-of-living Bill because this Government, and all parties in it, realise the challenges that face people, families, communities and businesses. At each and every step, the Department of Social Protection and its Minister, Deputy Humphreys, have delivered packages that target every member of the community. We look at people aged over 70 and the challenges around fuel allowance and the lump sums for carers. We are looking at what is being delivered through the Department of Education, when it comes to delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, funding for our schools. One in four schools now get DEIS funding through the Department. The school meals programme, again, under the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is delivering meals for children in schools throughout Ireland. This party is looking after people who are in need and the Government has put a budget in place to do exactly that.
I am proud that this budget will meet the needs of families in Ireland today through the electricity credit, the rental credit and the energy support scheme that will benefit businesses. Those businesses will have registered for that scheme by this coming Saturday. They are putting in their claims this week and it is to be hoped, and we aim and target, that they will get their payments by the end of December. The Government is yet again acting in the face of a crisis. The Government has brought forward these policies.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-29