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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A16 energy efficiency – retrofitting at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A17 repair-and-leasing scheme at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49042/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A28 cost-rental equity loan at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49043/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A31 first-home scheme at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49044/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A32 affordable housing fund at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital spent under vote A33 Croí Cónaithe (cities) fund at the end of September 2022; the projected amount to be spent under this heading by the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Public Sector Pay (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to the Exchequer to bring the pay of workers in Section 56 organisations in line with public service pay agreements including Building Momentum and its potential successor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the Exchequer to bring the pay of workers in Section 39 organisations in line with public service pay agreements including Building Momentum and its potential successor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49029/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am very familiar indeed with the SEO system and the employment regulation order, ERO, system that gives effect to the decisions of joint labour committees and ministerial sign offs regarding statutory minimum rates of pay higher than the national minimum wage, which would apply, for example, to contract cleaners and security workers. There...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: Accepting that the Government is powerless and is governed by the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and that the national minimum wage is not yet at €12.17 per hour, which is the current rate but which will, undoubtedly, go up, given the rise in the cost of living, when the living wage working group report is published later this year, one thing the Government could do concerns the small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: They are earning under €12.17 per hour.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to ensure that all contractors that are awarded State public procurement contracts pay all staff a living wage given the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48279/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will be brief. This question relates to the Government's plans, if any, to ensure that all contractors who are awarded State public procurement contracts pay all staff a living wage. I will clarify this question somewhat by acknowledging that the Government is in some ways powerless, given that there is no formal living wage in place. The National Minimum Wage Act governs this area. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I absolutely get that. It is normal practice that the distributional impact of a budget would provided in the Exchequer report. A bit of a con job was attempted to be perpetrated against the Irish people, quite frankly. I read the documents and I do not see any separate, isolated analysis for the measures and provisions that apply for 2023 exclusively. Of course, when one looks in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister’s commitment on the record of the House to provide that additional analysis. That is very useful, indeed. It is not abstract, either. It is an important analysis to have. I draw the Minister’s attention to the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, post-budget analysis from the Vincentian Partnership. It essentially concur with some of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has examined or requested a SWITCH analysis of the budget 2023 measures, excluding the 2022 temporary cost-of-living measures to be carried out; if he will provide a copy of any such analysis reviewed by his Department, for the distributional impact of the permanent expenditure and taxation changes from budget 2023...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: This time last week the Minister and his Government colleagues were patting themselves on the back on a job well done on budget day. There is no shortage of graphs and other narrative in the glossy expenditure report claiming how much better off low-income households will be as a result of the once-off measures combined with the budget 2023 measures. However, when we strip away the...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. For the record, our amendment states: "further calls on the Government to: - replace the Defective Concrete Products Levy with a levy on profits derived from construction; and - commit to the introduction in the Finance Bill 2022 of retrospective tax relief for those already carrying out remediation works on...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: At the start of this debate I thought I had stumbled into the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis. It was quite an extraordinary defence, with all respect to the Acting Chairman. I am sure he was there and I am sure he enjoyed it. The defence of Housing for All is quite extraordinary and does not tally with the lived experience of the people I and most of us in this House represent. I am talking...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his plans to reform the Standards in Public Office Commission; and when the Heads of the Ethics in Public Office Standards Bill 2015 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48283/22]