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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if an update will be provided on his plans to reform the way in which capital gains are treated under the Key Employee Engagement Programme; the cost of the programme to the Exchequer for each year from 2017 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to protect current and prospective mortgage holders from a rise in European Central Bank interest rates; his views on the introduction of maximum interest rates that can be contracted to each type of credit agreement as applied in some other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if an update will be provided on the repayment of outstanding pandemic unemployment payment and temporary wage subsidy scheme tax liabilities; the amount repaid to date; the number of persons with an outstanding TWSS or PUP tax liability for 2020 who subsequently overpaid tax in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the transposition of the pan-European personal pension product regulation; the expected timeline for the transposition of the regulation into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to abolish the prohibitive VAT rate on defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (23 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the announced 20% cut in transport fares will apply to those who have purchased annual taxsaver ticket for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will publish updated guidance to facilitate a transition period for the changes to the tenant purchase scheme pursuant to SI. No.776 of 2021 Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021; if his Department will facilitate flexibility in respect of tenants who had commenced the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made for playing pitches, basketball courts and other outdoor sports facilities for students at a school (details supplied) in advance of the development of the permanent school facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to revise upward the Programme for Government commitment to move to 20% remote and or home working in light of the high demand to continue with a remote and hybrid model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the blended working policy in the civil service; if employers will have the right to refuse blended working arrangements and will retain the right to require employees to attend the office under the proposed policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11276/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to open negotiations on a new public service pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of and position regarding the proposed timeline for enactment of the regulation of lobbying (amendment) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11275/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that his Department chose to discontinue funding which led to the winding-up of an organisation (details supplied); the reason his Department would not work with the organisation as requested to transition to new institutional and governance arrangements; if his Department will provide costings and a timeline for the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the proposed 20% average fare reduction on public service obligation services to private bus contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (1 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost or saving to the Exchequer of increasing the Programme for Government commitment of 20% home and remote working for public sector employers, colleges and other public bodies to 30%, 40% and 50%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11477/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the implementation of the land value sharing measures; when the measures will be implemented; if he will be introducing a temporary windfall tax in the interim for land that has been rezoned pending the delayed implementation of the land value sharing measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: The land value tax measures promised in the Housing for All strategy have yet to be delivered on. We have been told now that we will have to wait until next year for the implementation of those plans. Land value sharing was a key recommendation of the Kenny report and we resurrected those principles in a Labour Party Bill from last year. It is, effectively, as the Minister of State knows,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: Significant amounts of money are being made and have been made over the years by developers simply flipping land. Nothing speaks to the issue of the financialisation of housing more than the practice of land being bought, flipped, literally overnight sometimes, and nothing being developed. Genuinely radical measures, such as those called for by my colleague, Senator Rebecca Moynihan, must...

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith for allowing me to use some of her time. I did not realise it was a case of first-up, best-dressed. I thought the usual way we apply party slots would be operative. In any case, I thank Deputy Smith. It is much appreciated. I agree with many of the perspectives the Deputy presented and those of others here. From a workers' perspective and a broader fiscal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to issue revised ministerial guidelines to harmonise apartment standards in respect of build-to-sell and build-to-rent apartments in order to incentivise the development of build-to-sell homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12042/22]