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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: May I make an intervention, just to be clear? It would be useful to get a sense of this from the Central Bank. These are the published figures but €4 billion in non-core expenditure is also expected. Will Dr. Kelly add that into the calculations?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: This excess spending, as Dr. Kelly would have it, is adding to inflation and creating a bigger problem. This excess is also counter to the approach of the ECB.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Government spending is contributing to higher rates of inflation than would otherwise be experienced.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Tax cuts contribute to fiscal expansion and, therefore, to inflation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: I mean tax cuts contribute if they are net tax cuts in other words, unless revenue is generated from another source to make up for them.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: If we accept the Central Bank's forecast for inflation next year at 3.2%, is Dr. Kelly in a position to provide us with at least an estimate of how much of this inflation next year will be accounted for by the Government's expansionary budget, as he has described it? I am using his own term when I say "expansionary". Would it be 3%? Would it be 2.9%?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Okay. That is significant. I have a few more questions to ask in my limited time. They go back to a point I touched on earlier concerning so-called once-off expenditures. We are getting into a dangerous game now where we have three or four separate expenditure headings. It seems to me that this Government must know more about the conduct and outcome of the war being waged on Ukraine...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: It refers to what happens here in terms of the impact on our finances. We are happy to do this but it is about how we do it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: They have been forced to do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: But non-core.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: To do that, I think Dr. Kelly, as an economist, will agree with the recommendations or overarching guiding principle of the report of the Commission on Tax and Welfare. It stated that to have a more sustainable tax base, which we would need to allow us to have the resources required to do the things I think we all agree we want to do, we would need to broaden the tax base rather than narrow...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. Kelly.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: The two things that define me are my football and my class. They are linked inextricably. One of my very first memories is of Northern Ireland playing Spain in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. I was playing football on the street in Newfield, an estate the Minister of State would be familiar with, and I remember being called in to watch a hugely-anticipated match. I drank that match in with two...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: My point is this: football fills us with hope. It fills us with dreams. It allows us to think big things for ourselves and for our communities. My colleague, Deputy Aodhán Ó Riordáin, articulated so eloquently earlier on the place of football in our society and history, which has often been derided, scorned and sneered at through our State's history. Nothing that he said...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: It will be next door to us.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is concerned about the series of proposed collective redundancies at a company (details supplied); if he will confirm the date on which he was formally notified by the company; if the IDA is working with the company to minimise the number of potential redundancies and identify cost savings as an alternative to redundancies at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to accommodating an individual (details supplied) in a certain accommodation centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34739/23]

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: The very last phone call I got on my mobile phone before I came in here this evening was from somebody I have represented for many years, a person who has been told by his landlord that he is just about to receive an eviction notice. He is married with a large family and is now contemplating what he can do. He knows that if he looks around the Drogheda area, he will simply not be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including testosterone cypionate in the drug payment scheme in view of the financial hardships being endured by patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33492/23]