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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the stage at which the DART+ to Drogheda project stands in terms of the appraisal by his Department of the capital project; if he will provide an updated assessment of the overall cost and timeline for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55572/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the latest proposals by her Department to address the issue of the provision of pensions to community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 530. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections that the HSE has carried out in hospitality related businesses that operate indoor dining since 26 July 2021 in order to monitor and enforce compliance with the requirement for EU Digital COVID Certificates to be presented and checked by county; the number of compliance notices or formal orders issued to businesses that have been...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 690. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the new community development approach to be piloted by her Department in Drogheda, County Louth from February 2022 (details supplied); if she will publish the framework governing the pilot initiative; the amount of money her Department will allocate to the initiative in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: We all would like to see a move to a living wage. I have some sympathy for the Government in this regard in relation to the 30 cent proposed increase. The convention has been since 2015 that the Low Pay Commission recommendation is accepted by Government. Far be it for me to speak for the Low Pay Commission, but it may very well be that when the commission was considering its...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: It is a rum and politically diverse bunch proposing this amendment. There is no doubt about that. I hope that Deputy Michael Healy-Rae does not think of withdrawing the amendment based on the accusation by Deputy Boyd Barrett that he is a socialist. I do not know how comfortable Deputy Michael Healey-Rae would be with that label. I understand entirely what Deputy Boyd Barrett and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Property prices.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy does not agree on the role of a property tax.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Enormously.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Employment status determinations 3.Where, in applying any provision of the Principal Act the question arises as to whether an individual who personally executes any work or service for a person is an employee of that person or is self-employed or is employed by another person: (a) an agreement,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: This amendment is designed to address the pernicious phenomenon of bogus self-employment. This particular instance was brought to my attention by the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association and I belatedly forwarded the Minister some correspondence on this to give him some context on Revenue's approach to these issues. Bogus self-employment is alive and well in a number of economic sectors but...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response. I understand why he might not accept the amendment. The new code of practice is at an early stage in terms of its operation. There is no doubt about that. Some of the changes made represent an improvement on the previous code of practice that showed over the past few years that it was no longer worth the paper it was written on. That is based on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Report on the treatment of Cohabitants under the Taxes Acts 3.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of cohabitants under the Taxes Acts with regard to the differences in the taxation of a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will be familiar with some cases in the public domain in recent months. A partner may lose a partner with whom they have cohabited for considerable years and there can be implications for social welfare entitlements including widows' or widowers' pension entitlements. This has been raised by the Labour Party leader, Deputy Kelly, particularly in the context of social welfare...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Including the wealthy people.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: This is not the kind of discussion I thought we would have today, but it is useful and something we should probably take elsewhere. The discussion will continue because it is a necessary debate to have. We want to achieve the same things as Deputy Boyd Barrett, but we want to start from a different departure point. That would be fair to say. I never like to describe tax as a burden. That...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Whatever justification there may have been for SARP at a different point in our economic cycle, I am not certain of the rationale for the scheme at the moment. I understand where both Deputies are coming from. I will speak to the section relating to the working from home relief. It is good to see there is now the real-time opportunity to post receipts and make that claim. That makes it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Tax credit in respect of MUD construction defect levy payments 4.(1) Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 114: “114A. (1) In this section— ‘owner-occupier’ means a person who owns and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I will be brief then. The amendment is reasonably self-explanatory. It has to do with providing tax credits or reliefs for many of those who are paying for levies in terms of defects identified in their apartments. These apartments would have been built during the so-called boom time period when regulation of the industry was not particularly sound, to put it mildly. We have a situation...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (11 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s plans to allow the Air Corps to carry out priority one ambulance flights on behalf of the HSE; if arrangements will be made and adequate resources provided to allow this to come into effect from the start of 2023 when the current contract for the service expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55303/21]