Caitriona Redmond
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117 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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And we really do need to take a look at what we're doing as well as what the young people are doing, because it is addictive for adults as well as it is for young people of all ages.
And if it's impacting young people, it's definitely impacting adults as well.
I'm not sure.
I mean, the committee, the Oireachtas committee met on this only last month and all of the social media companies came in and said, oh no, our content is not addictive despite all of these court cases against them.
And despite this evidence which has been provided this week, I think that we're going to be slow to follow suit.
An awful lot of the funding for
Irish and for us, for our community, for our society comes from these exact social media companies who have headquarters here in Dublin.
Yeah, and I think this €2,000 cost per family that we're talking about here, I think it's really important to remember that there are people in middle to higher range salaries who can absorb it by dropping some of the non-essential purchases.
But the families who are on the lower income range, they're the families who can't adapt and adopt a €2,000 hit to their finances.
No, and I think that's very true, because when you're committed to rent and to mortgage, it's very difficult to adapt your budget to take into account for an additional 2000 euro per year.
Yes, and not just that then.
That standard of living for you changes, but there's also a knock-on impact on the smaller businesses.
So you'll see that knock-on impact on the likes of after-school services, classes, then you're talking about restaurants and hospitality industry.
The less money you have to spend in the community will have a knock-on effect on community jobs.
So there is a much wider picture here, but ultimately what you're talking about is the gap widening, the gap between the haves and the have-nots
is widening and those who don't have it have less again.
So the energy credits has an awful lot of merit, particularly when it's targeted at families who are on lower incomes.
So you're talking about taking a look at it from the family income supplement or that's the family payment system
You're talking about it from the qualified child increase for people who are on lower incomes.
But the other thing is, if we're talking about that particular climate change levy, that portion of 532 million that hasn't been paid out.
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