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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 472. To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €700,000 funding he secured in Budget 2024 to expand the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme will be spent; if he can give assurances that the funding is sufficient to ensure spinal muscular atrophy is included in the heel prick test in 2024 as per his commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27123/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will confirm the number of people on panels in each CHO area concerning home care positions with the HSE; the number of directly employed homecare workers who were appointed by the HSE in each CHO area for 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners to 1 June 2024 for the mortgage interest tax relief scheme on a county-by-county basis; if he will provide details of the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, by county; the cost of the scheme up to 1 June 2024; the average mortgage account balance for successful applicants; the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rationale for excluding businesses which pay their rates through their rental/lease agreement with a commercial landlord, to that landlord, from the scope of the increased cost of business grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26541/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The committee is in public session. I have received apologies from Deputy Steven Matthews. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome our guests. This engagement is with representatives from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the acting chairperson of the council, Professor Michael McMahon, and Dr. Adele Bergin and Mr. Niall Conroy. Twice a year, we have an opportunity, as part of the EU semester, to meet the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council to consider issues raised in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Professor McMahon. Before I go to the first contributor, I notice Deputy Healy-Rae has his hand up.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am afraid not. We have an established rota and Deputy Healy-Rae is some way down the list-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----and we have a full attendance. I will go to Sinn Féin representative Deputy Doherty first.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Yes, and I will draw it to a close then.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Okay. I thank Professor McMahon and Mr. Conroy. We do not have a representative from Fine Gael online from what I can establish so the next speaker on our rota is Deputy Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Moynihan. The next contributor is Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Boyd Barrett is well over time but that does not take away from the merit of the points he is making, on which I absolutely agree. Could Professor McMahon respond within a minute?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Does Professor McMahon mean to say he never worked on a building site when he was in college?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The professor was the fire door industry’s loss.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Conroy and Professor McMahon for responding to Deputy Doherty. I also have some questions and observations, while we are on the issue of under-provision in the health budget, which is well known. It has been ventilated here, on the floor of the Dáil and elsewhere that the Minister for Health in the Estimates process last year requested approximately €2 billion from...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: In order to be helpful, the witnesses might also do the following before moving on. It is now evident that we are close to the point at which the HSE recruitment moratorium is about to be lifted. That will probably add to it. I do not know if that has been factored into the anticipated deficit for the rest of this year. Public calls were made by the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Exactly.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will go back to the charge of fiscal gimmickry and the misclassification of non-core spending. The figure of €4 billion for the classification non-core spending is absolutely a case of fiscal gimmickry. We sometimes lose sight of the significance of the scale of what we are talking about here. I am old enough to remember a point in time, eight, nine or ten years ago, when...