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Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to second the Labour Party motion. The housing crisis is the single biggest social and, now, economic challenge facing this society. I am on record as having made that very point in recent years in this House, that housing is not alone a social challenge but also a vast economic challenge. I predicted what IBEC has said in recent weeks, that our housing challenge is now a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (9 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing proposed measures (details supplied) to alleviate the waiting lists for an NCT, in view of long delays for the national car test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the process, in detail, through which pregnant women in Ireland experiencing extreme nausea can access the drug cariban; the reason that women are having trouble obtaining the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing GPs to prescribe cariban, a drug for pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea that currently is only prescribed by consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions processed in Ireland since the drug was added to the DPS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6364/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: As a rule, I remain somewhat sceptical about the efficacy of mortgage interest relief in delivering real help to the households who need it most, because our experience has been the mortgage interest relief system in the past tended to favour the better-off with bigger mortgages and therefore assets of greater value. However, in light of five ECB rate hikes since last July, there is an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am aware of that quirk or anomaly, if I can describe it as such. It has been raised in the media this week. I saw the relevant statement and I think it was timely. There is a way this issue can be addressed. We could define "commercial landlord" in the legislation. Clearly, many of these supports were developed quickly and when moving quickly and without an evidential basis, it is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: It is like the energy credit allocated to households. I did not need it but there are constituents of mine who needed triple the amount to allow them to manage. I was raising this all through last summer because of examples on the ground and cases I was working on myself. These included very energy-intensive manufacturing industries closing down because of the difficulties they were...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: No pressure.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: To be fair, that is long-standing policy.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if correspondence from his Department to the Central Bank to which a newspaper article refers (details supplied) will be provided to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5127/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to extending the cut to excise duty on petrol and diesel beyond the end of February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3950/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a VAT-related matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 400. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when operational schedules for the rifle range at Gormanston Army Camp will return to regular publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the expected overpayment of income tax by PAYE workers in each of the years 2019 to 2022; the steps that the Revenue Commissioners takes to ensure that people understand that they may be due a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses have a view on the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's indigenous enterprise review, which was published recently? It pointed up a lot of problems with our indigenous enterprise base. It refers to low productivity and what might be done with the research and development situation. I will put that first to the ESRI and then Mr. Coffey might respond.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The experience over many decades has been that is has been difficult to enable microbusinesses or SMEs to scale up sufficiently where they are getting seriously involved in exporting, which is where the added value is and is where they become more productive and of greater benefit by adding higher value jobs and so on. When plans were first announced to revise the indigenous enterprise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: It is a dynamic situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Yes, that was back in 2015.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McGuinness.