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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections that the Health and Safety Authority has carried out in hospitality-related businesses, such as, pubs, restaurants, cafés, hotels and nightclubs since 22 October 2021 in order to monitor and enforce compliance with the requirement for EU digital Covid certificates to be presented and checked, by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the stage at which the DART+ to Drogheda project stands in terms of the appraisal by his Department of the capital project; if he will provide an updated assessment of the overall cost and timeline for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55572/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the latest proposals by her Department to address the issue of the provision of pensions to community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 530. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections that the HSE has carried out in hospitality related businesses that operate indoor dining since 26 July 2021 in order to monitor and enforce compliance with the requirement for EU Digital COVID Certificates to be presented and checked by county; the number of compliance notices or formal orders issued to businesses that have been...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 690. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the new community development approach to be piloted by her Department in Drogheda, County Louth from February 2022 (details supplied); if she will publish the framework governing the pilot initiative; the amount of money her Department will allocate to the initiative in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am very pleased to speak on this very progressive Bill. I acknowledge the lead role played by our colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, in its genesis, in addition to the work Deputy Bacik has done on it to date. As we know, climate change is the single most important challenge of our time. It is existential and beyond urgent, though one wonders if that reality has dawned on many of those...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: We all would like to see a move to a living wage. I have some sympathy for the Government in this regard in relation to the 30 cent proposed increase. The convention has been since 2015 that the Low Pay Commission recommendation is accepted by Government. Far be it for me to speak for the Low Pay Commission, but it may very well be that when the commission was considering its...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: It is a rum and politically diverse bunch proposing this amendment. There is no doubt about that. I hope that Deputy Michael Healy-Rae does not think of withdrawing the amendment based on the accusation by Deputy Boyd Barrett that he is a socialist. I do not know how comfortable Deputy Michael Healey-Rae would be with that label. I understand entirely what Deputy Boyd Barrett and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Property prices.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy does not agree on the role of a property tax.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Enormously.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Employment status determinations 3.Where, in applying any provision of the Principal Act the question arises as to whether an individual who personally executes any work or service for a person is an employee of that person or is self-employed or is employed by another person: (a) an agreement,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: This amendment is designed to address the pernicious phenomenon of bogus self-employment. This particular instance was brought to my attention by the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association and I belatedly forwarded the Minister some correspondence on this to give him some context on Revenue's approach to these issues. Bogus self-employment is alive and well in a number of economic sectors but...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response. I understand why he might not accept the amendment. The new code of practice is at an early stage in terms of its operation. There is no doubt about that. Some of the changes made represent an improvement on the previous code of practice that showed over the past few years that it was no longer worth the paper it was written on. That is based on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Report on the treatment of Cohabitants under the Taxes Acts 3.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of cohabitants under the Taxes Acts with regard to the differences in the taxation of a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will be familiar with some cases in the public domain in recent months. A partner may lose a partner with whom they have cohabited for considerable years and there can be implications for social welfare entitlements including widows' or widowers' pension entitlements. This has been raised by the Labour Party leader, Deputy Kelly, particularly in the context of social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application will be submitted to Meath County Council for the planned permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to formally include schools (details supplied) as DEIS band one schools in the context of the recent review by her Department of the DEIS scheme; the timeline for the implementation of the recommendations of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56333/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I again want to raise with the Minister the need for a Covid-19 testing centre and vaccination centre in Drogheda. The Minister knows the incidence rates in Drogheda are again the highest in the State. One in 40 have tested positive and it is one in 20 if we take a 28-day perspective, yet there is still no testing centre in Drogheda - no permanent centre and no pop-up facility. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 707. To ask the Minister for Health if a site (details supplied) is in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57631/21]