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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected yield from abolishing relief under section 604A; the cost to date to the Exchequer annually of this relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22933/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected yield from every €1 per tonne increase in the carbon tax; the estimated yield if there were a €10 increase in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22934/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the cycle to work scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the cost of the scheme in each of the years; the number of persons who accessed the maximum amount of tax relief in each of those years; the average tax relief in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the increase in the amount of tax relief available under the cycle to work scheme to €1,500 for pedelecs and ebikes and €1,250 for all other bicycles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22936/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs exempted from the high-income individual restriction; the estimated additional yield if those reliefs were not exempted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer from reducing pension relief to the standard rate in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an updated projection for spending by each Department on the basis of the Exchequer figures for August 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review will be undertaken of the case of a teacher (details supplied) in County Louth who recently underwent major surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22708/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken an analysis of whether a German-style short-time working scheme based on the kurzarbeit model could be applied in an Irish context; if he will provide costings for April 2020 to the end of 2021 if such a scheme were to be introduced from 1 April 2020 and based on current departmental economic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected yield from a 0.1% increase in 2021 in the national training fund levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22931/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 210. 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. [22932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that Dundalk Institute of Technology is the only institute of technology not to have formally linked into a consortium to obtain technological university status; the actions he and the Higher Education Authority will take to advance technological university status for the institute; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that have taken place with the private purpose-built student accommodation providers regarding the provision of flexible arrangements for the 2020-2021 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 232. 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 45km to 24km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students that will be affected by changing the SUSI adjacency rates from 45km to 25km, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23025/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 64. To ask the Taoiseach the names and salaries of his special advisers; and the salaries paid to each Minister of State in his Department. [19728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reform the calculation method for quarterly, half-yearly and annual charging for motor car tax; his views on whether the system unfairly and excessively overcharges those motorists in the lower income brackets that avail of the quarterly or half-yearly charge; his plans to reform the motor car tax system; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 283. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will complete and publish its review of the operation of section 114 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 regarding the deduction for tax purposes for valid expenses incurred in the performance of the employment duties of certain categories of PAYE workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the pandemic stabilisation and recovery fund will operate; the nature of the investment the fund has undertaken to date; the criteria applied to inform investment decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21546/20]