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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Minister is most welcome to the committee's proceedings today. I can assure the Minister that I will give him as much time as he needs within the parameters the Chair will allow to answer the questions I have for him and the observations that I will make. I will try to be relatively brief. I wish to focus on the issue of corporation tax and the impacts that proposed reforms will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an outline of recent communications with the Minister for Health pertaining to the scale of non-competitive and non-compliant procurement practices by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the Top Level Appointments Committee should have a role in the recruitment of special envoys to ensure that the full details of any future appointments to be shared in advance and adequately considered in a proper way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45500/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the under-profile and outturn of capital expenditure to date in 2021; if he will provide an update on the revised National Development Plan; if the National Development Plan will address the recent IPCC report and set out clear plans and targets with respect to climate action; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has held discussions with the Minister for Finance with regard to the need to raise additional revenue to fund permanent current expenditure increases given his intention that Government borrowing would only be for capital investment purposes by 2023 as stated in his recent updates to the Cabinet on Expenditure Management and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for his decision to propose a full new review of ethics legislation rather than restore the existing Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 to the order paper of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45496/21]

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am very proud to wrap up this debate on the first legislation that Deputy Bacik has introduced to this House as a new Member. It is grounded very much in a history of progressive legislation that she has introduced in the Oireachtas that is designed to improve the lives of the many, as this legislation does. We know that precarious housing leads to precarious lives, a precarious...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, employment wage subsidy scheme and Covid restrictions scheme compliances programmes respectively; the percentage of employers availing of each scheme who have been contacted by the Revenue Commissioners regarding repayments; the total amount of repayments due from employers under each scheme; the total amount...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Process (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a recent Parliamentary Budget Office report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45515/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: Does the notion that we could end up losing €2 billion or, as far as Mr. Barnes is concerned in another assessment, €3 billion in corporation tax to the Exchequer, as a result of the OECD process, need some revision?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is fine. Is there potential to extrapolate, in as far as it is possible to establish this aspect, where this situation is going to land ultimately? I refer to the idea we may lose considerable revenue, as has been anticipated, because we are committed to signing up to Pillar 1 of the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, II process. If our minimum effective rate of corporate tax...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am interested in this aspect because, to the best of my recollection, the figure of a potential €2 billion loss, and possibly the figures Mr. Barnes has given, may have arisen from an assessment that was done before any statement concerning what might, potentially, be the new agreed minimum effective rate. Would Mr. Barnes agree that there is potential for us to lose some resources...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: The €2 billion figure has become received wisdom and it has not been challenged by anyone. That concerns me because we have not factored in any potential gains which may accrue from a marginally higher rate of corporate tax being applied. What I am hearing from Mr. Barnes is that IFAC has not done that assessment either. It may not have had the material available to allow it to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: Given the poor level of general Government expenditure, the priority ought to be investment in the kinds of capital infrastructure projects we all agree should be prioritised. Turning to carbon budgeting, and while that does not necessarily involve the fiscal or Exchequer position, does IFAC have an input into that process? I ask that because, in truth, we cannot separate the carbon...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: That would be a useful evolution of the role of IFAC and important from a broad public policy perspective. In his opening statement, Mr. Barnes stated that to "To assess the risks, more information is needed on the Government’s investment plans and the underlying economic assumptions, particularly in relation to the new national development plan". We expect the revised national...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Barnes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance his position in respect of the OECD corporation tax reform process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44840/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: Amid all the noise on global corporation tax reform and the process, it is appropriate at this stage that the Minister would update the House on his engagement with the OECD on the global corporation tax process. He will be aware from the Labour Party submission to his Department's public consultation process, a process I called for and that I welcome, that our considered assessment is the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for that reply. I have some appreciation of the situation he is in and I genuinely believe he believes the decision at this stage not to sign up formally to pillar 2 of the process is, as he sees it, in the national interest. We have two different, competing perspectives in terms of what the national interest is. That is informed, I believe, by our different political...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for further clarifying his position, and that is what I understood it to be. 9 o’clock My preference would have been that the State would have signalled our intention to fully sign up and explicitly support pillar 2 for a range of different reasons. I fear, because of the continued delay in us committing to signing up to pillar 2 - I appreciate the unknowns...