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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a short-term reduction in the rate of VAT charged on energy and certain other household utility bills to assist households with escalating heating and energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54318/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans regarding double tax rules for cross-Border workers (details supplied) who are based in Ireland given the temporary Covid-19 waiver on these rules ends in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of workers aged under 25 years of age whose wages are subsidised through the employment wage subsidy scheme; if he will provide a breakdown on an economic sector by sector basis in respect of the total number of firms in receipt of the scheme as of 1 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54317/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the sale of a portion of the State’s shareholding in a bank (details supplied); the brokerage costs of the sale to date; if he plans to reconsider plans to divest the State of its remaining shareholding in the bank in view of the recent profits posted by the institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54315/21]

Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Sadly, like the Minister of State, I am familiar with all of the terms and acronyms in the glossary of the Bill. It is complex and technical legislation but an extremely important Bill nonetheless. The Labour Party will support its passage on Second Stage on a qualified basis. We look forward to going into the legislation in more detail when it comes before the committee. The Minister...

Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: It is very elastic.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first and second level school places allocated to schools (details supplied) for the 2021-2022 school year; if she is satisfied that there are sufficient second level first year places available in the Drogheda and east County Meath area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54925/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (11 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s plans to allow the Air Corps to carry out priority one ambulance flights on behalf of the HSE; if arrangements will be made and adequate resources provided to allow this to come into effect from the start of 2023 when the current contract for the service expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55303/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 301. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when backpay due to members of the Army Ranger Wing will be paid; the reason the money has not been paid to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55305/21]

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much. The points and all of the issues made by Deputy Sherlock, as we know, predate the pandemic. I join with colleagues in commending the work of the ambulance service before the pandemic and the sterling work that they have done throughout the pandemic, particularly in the visits that they have made to the house-bound, together with the sensitive way...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide information on planned changes to the public spending code against which proposals from Departments and State agencies will be appraised in respect of the need to comply with the aims of the climate action plan and sectoral carbon budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54955/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: We cannot legally meet the binding targets of net zero unless we radically change how we do things. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is the parent Department for the national development plan, which he has stated will see us spending an additional €116 billion over the next ten years, during its lifetime, on major infrastructural projects. The legal, moral and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: When will that work conclude? This is critical. I am not sure the Minister and everybody in his Department, or indeed the Minister for Finance and his Department, understand the absolute centrality of their Departments in meeting our climate change ambitions. The Minister mentioned that the reference cost of carbon will have to change again if we are to align the national development plan...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: With respect, that reply is the kind of “blah, blah, blah” that Greta Thunberg has accused others of. We must be more precise and how we describe this. I am interested in establishing exactly what kind of metrics the Minister’s Department is going to apply in respect of approving those projects that will be significant in allowing us to meet our carbon reduction and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide more access to remote working within the public sector; the status of negotiations with trade unions regarding the development of an agreed framework on remote working in the civil and public service into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish legislation to amend the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54953/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategies (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 122. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the well-being framework and dashboard; his plans to include the distribution of both pre-tax and post-tax income and wealth and Gini coefficient within the income and wealth dimension of the proposed well-being dashboard; and his plans to include measures for the security of employment, trade union density and collective bargaining coverage and...