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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of spending under the non-core expenditure allocation of €7.5 billion in the first six months of 2022; the estimated amount that is expected to be spent on Covid-19 measures in 2022; if €0.5 billion will be spent on the Brexit Adjustment Reserve; the estimated amount that it is expected to spend under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2023 (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an equality budgeting statement will be forthcoming in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2023 (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of progress of a well-being budgeting framework; if the framework is set to be included in budget 2023; if not, the expected timeline for completion and operationalisation of this well-being budget framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated revenue that would be raised from increasing the vacant site levy to 20% based on the most recent valuation data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38686/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of an extra month child benefit payment with an increase in 2022 rates by €10, €15 and €20 respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider a decision (details supplied) in relation to the provision of community employment participants engaged in a scheme in County Louth given the ethos and nature of the organisation in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the anticipated cost to the Exchequer in 2023 of a waiver of waiting days on social welfare payments by category of payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38631/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students that would be affected by changing the SUSI adjacency rates from 30 km to 25km, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected yield from a 0.1% increase in 2023 in the national training fund levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the history of increases in the national training fund levy over the past five years in tabular form; the projected yield at budget time of each 0.1% increase in tabular form; the actual yield in the full year following the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38641/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated of cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to decrease the qualifying criteria for the non-adjacent rate of the SUSI grant from 30 km to 24 km; the estimated cost involved in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38633/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (12 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 354. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of unspent money contained in the Covid Contingency Fund as of 30 June 2022; the estimated expenditure from the fund on the provision of supports and services to refugees from Ukraine and Covid-19 related expenditure to 31 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37875/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (12 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the provisions providing protection to volunteers will be formally commenced on enactment of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill, 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38033/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (5 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a policy issue raised by a group (details supplied) regarding the development of offshore wind farms in County Louth; the status of the work of his Department to address such concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36222/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will pick up from where Deputy Ó Broin finished. I absolutely agree that this is not about kicking it into next month, and certainly not next year because this issue is far too urgent for that. It is about getting it right and we believe that we can get it right. While I am not a member of the committee, I speak as someone who attends the Oireachtas Select Committee on Housing,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total cost to the Exchequer of the €200 electricity credit; the number of beneficiaries who received the payment; the number of beneficiaries who received two, three or more payments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35025/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if persons with a second meter for storage heating in the same residence received two €200 electricity credit payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any beneficiaries received an additional €200 electricity credit with respect to a holiday home; if so, the number of beneficiaries who received a further payment in respect of one, two or more holiday homes, in tabular form; the number of payments that were made in regard to holiday homes in cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grounds on which a local authority may refuse families or individuals seeking emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35168/22]