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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a broader compliance and auditing of the proposed employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20473/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 350. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of compliance inspections for the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the number of Departmental staff who have been assigned to compliance duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 334. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to protect the employment wage subsidy scheme from significant waste and abuse of funds in view of the warning from his officials regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20474/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 335. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for training or job transfer measures as part of the employment wage subsidy scheme as is included in the German scheme; his plans to ensure eligibility to the scheme is conditional on the production of agreed training and reskilling plans of each employee to improve the comparatively low rate of in-work training and increase productivity here;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to protect existing workers from displacement or loss of income from the employment wage subsidy scheme; his plans to exclude temporary agency workers, those holding a work contract with another employer and trainees from the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20476/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 337. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure compulsory and conditional top-ups to the full amount of an employee's pre-existing wage for those employers availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 338. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make access to the employment wage subsidy scheme conditional on respect for workers' rights such as no outstanding or unimplemented WRC adjudications of Labour Court recommendations, compliance with an ERO if applicable and commitment to collective bargaining and-or collective agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 340. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that are being put in place to ensure employees in firms availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme are protected from economic dismissal; if employers availing of the scheme will be obliged to inform workers' representatives and Revenue in the case of a planned dismissal; if they will lose the wage subsidy for such workers during the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 341. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a clawback mechanism in cases in which an employer availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme makes over 20% of staff redundant when using the scheme in circumstances in which the redundancies were not agreed with a recognised trade union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to help retain lines of credit for mortgages to persons who will be availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20479/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 352. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken with the banking sector to ensure that it is retaining lines of credit for mortgages to persons (details supplied) who are on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20492/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 342. To ask the Minister for Finance if he received advice from his officials regarding the distributional impact of the stay and spend incentive; if persons in the lower tax bracket or higher income tax bracket are more likely to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20482/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 343. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to attach eligibility conditions pertaining to employment rights and conditions for employers availing of the stay and spend incentive; his plans for a sectorial oversight mechanism with the involvement of recognised trade unions to ensure the effective implementation of this policy with respect to workers’ rights; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 344. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his discussion with the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation regarding the proposed eligibility criteria for the stay and spend incentive; his plans to end the effective employer veto of joint labour committees for the hospitality sector to ensure workers in businesses benefiting from the scheme are protected and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 345. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for an enhanced corporate tax loss relief to provide additional liquidity supports for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20485/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for an income tax relief for self-employed persons to provide liquidity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20486/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 347. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details relating to the issue of liability for income tax on employees availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the way in which the liability for tax owed will be treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20487/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 348. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details relating to the issue of liability for income tax on employees availing of the pandemic unemployment payment; the way in which the liability for tax owed will be treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20488/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 349. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employers that have returned payments made by the Revenue Commissioners under the temporary wage subsidy scheme since its inception; the amount in cash terms that has been returned to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20489/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (30 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 351. To ask the Minister for Finance when the databank of his Department was last updated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20491/20]