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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on benefit-in-kind: cycle to school 8. The Minster shall, within six months after the passing of this Act, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the design and cost of a scheme of exemption from a charge to tax on expenses incurred in the purchase of bicycles or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 8: In page 14, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 469 of Principal Act (relief for health expenses) 10.Section 469 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1), in the definition of “practitioner”, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “(aa) registered in a register...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Voluntary Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Dáil Éireann passing a motion on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 in support of pay increases for community and voluntary sector workers, the action he or his Department has taken to deliver on the commitments listed in the motion; if he intends to provide for a standing forum and mechanism for collective bargaining on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of projects under way by the OPW to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings it manages and owns; the budget for such works in 2022; the projected budget for 2023; the square meters of building space that will be retrofitted this year; the role the OPW has in delivering on climate mitigation and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in publishing the report on the review of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, which was scheduled for early in quarter 3 of 2022, according to the roadmap; if he has received the review report and recommendations yet; when he intends to publish it; if he will be bringing forward changes to the law; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on when the review of ethics legislation will be published; if he will confirm that ten submissions were received by the closure date of the public consultation in mid-January 2022; if those submissions have now all been considered; if he has considered the findings of the review yet; when he intends to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the land, properties or buildings the OPW or his Department have made available in 2022 for housing or accommodation for Ukrainian refugees or those seeking international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider developing, with the ETBs and other statutory education bodies, networks of remote study hubs in regional towns in which there is no third level institution footprint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 551. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will provide services to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56402/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That would be appreciated. It is something we intend to raise in the context of the Finance Bill and probably more appropriately, the social welfare Bill. Our own analysis, which has been confirmed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, shows that in terms of the national minimum wage, a worst-case scenario could see many full-time workers on the minimum wage lose more than 30% of the 80 cent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will put on record, and various respective think tanks have said it as well, that PRSI parameters will remain unchanged, and that will increase the PRSI burden on a full-time minimum wage worker. The threshold for those earning below €424 is not changing. There will, therefore, be an impact. More than 30% of the increase will be swallowed up because the kinds of PRSI adjustments...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, post-budget analysis that suggests that permanent tax changes made in budget 2023 will disproportionately benefit higher earners; if he is concerned that full-time workers who are on the minimum wage will not see the full benefit of the planned 80 cent an hour increase in the national minimum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: For full-time workers on the national minimum wage, a significant portion of the 80 cent an hour increase they will receive in July will be swallowed up. In the budget, the Government failed to adjust the relevant PRSI bands to account for the increase and to ensure the full increase would go into the pockets of those who benefit from the national minimum wage increase. There are no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: There are other Members here.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank has undertaken, or plans to undertake, an analysis of the potential impact of rising ECB interest rates on Irish mortgage holders; his views as to whether the Central Bank will require additional regulatory powers to protect those with variable and tracker mortgages from rising rates, given the lack of competition in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: Homeowners are scared stiff of the threat of rising mortgage interest rates. Markets expect the ECB to continue raising rates until the middle of next year, with a peak of 3% anticipated. Tracker mortgage holders, as we know, have already felt the impact, and variable-rate mortgage holders are next in the firing line. Has the Minister's Department carried out any assessment at this stage...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: To be clear, I am not specifically requesting that the Minister introduce any change to the tax code in this regard. I have never requested that. That is not what my question seeks to do. Thankfully, the main lenders in the market have held off raising their variable mortgage interest rates to date, but I think there is a certain inevitability that those rates will rise over the coming...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I think it is inevitable that the main banks will pass on the likely increases in the ECB rate over the coming period. The perverse reality is that the environment we are in at the moment, as interest rates go up, means that bank profitability will go up as well. I would like the Government to send a signal, and this House should send a signal, that banks should, given the climate at the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party does not support either of the amendments for the same reason we outlined this time last year when discussing very similar amendments. As the Minister noted, the USC raises a significant amount of revenue to be spent on the public services on which we all depend. Those on low and middle incomes especially depend on quality public services. There is an onus, of course, on...