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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional revenue raised from capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax respectively when the rate increased from 25% to 30% and then to 33% for each year from 2012 to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (15 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an issue in relation to a person (details supplied); if his Department has plans to address the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the warnings from an organisation (details supplied) of an over-reliance on corporation tax receipts; if he will outline his strategy to reduce this over-reliance; the way that he plans to broaden and sustain the tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce a windfall tax on the super-normal profits of energy companies; if he will provide details of any engagement that he and his officials have had with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, his officials and the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of plans for a new climate division in his Department; if he will confirm its staffing structure; its overall responsibilities and the function it will play in the allocation, implementation and enforcement of sectoral carbon budgets and ceilings across Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31012/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total underspend on capital spending to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the impact of rising construction costs on the delivery of the National Development Plan; the total cost to the State in 2022; the estimated cost in 2023 of his Department’s commitment to pay 70% of the construction cost inflation on recently agreed contracts; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cost of Living Issues (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the current 5% spending rule given the cost-of-living crisis; if he agrees that efforts to support households through the crisis combined with the existing Programme for Government’s current spending commitments may see the 5% rule breached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a payment equivalent to illness benefit for the five days medical care leave as proposed in the work life balance and miscellaneous provisions Bill 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when pension increases due to retired public service workers who were employed by FAS, the ETBs and Solas will receive payment of the increases they are owed; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31402/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 68 essentially seeks to achieve a similar aim as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's amendment. It is, in essence, about how we deal with the question of donations and fundraising in relation to NGOs. It is a very live issue, as the Minister of State is aware. It has been openly talked about in the NGO sector and across society for quite a long time now. Amendment No. 68 seeks to make...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 68: In page 90, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 22 of Electoral Act 1997 105.Section 22 of the Electoral Act 1997 is amended in subsection (2)(a) by substituting the following for paragraph (viii): “(viii) a payment by the person on their own behalf, or on behalf of one or more than one other person, of a fee...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I would like the Minister of State to elaborate on his intentions with specific regard to amendment No. 90. There is obviously quite a number of amendments in this grouping but it would be good to get a clearer picture of what the Minister of State intends to achieve with amendment No. 90. I will then speak on my amendment to the amendment, if that is appropriate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: On amendment No. 90 and what my amendment to that amendment seeks to achieve, I think the Minister of State's position is that he is proposing that a party registered both North and South would have to declare its property and its income from that property on an all-island basis. Our amendment seeks to go a little further. Without it, such a party could still receive donations in the North...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is an important perspective and the amendment seeks to address a significant issue of anomalies relating to parties registered and operating both North and South in cases where they are in some way taking advantage of British electoral law and what is allowed in that context compared with what is permitted here. The Hampton case illustrated that as a problem because of the lack of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: In correspondence my party and I had with the Standards in Public Office Commission in 2019 when we first brought to its attention the William Hampton bequest of more than £2 million in cash and assets, it delayed its examination of it. There was correspondence between the leader of Sinn Féin and her office and SIPO. SIPO essentially conceded to Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's argument...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 90: To insert the following after paragraph (c): “(d) (i) by the substitution in subsection (2) (d) of “donation;” for “donation.”, and (ii) by the insertion of the following after subsection (2)(d): ‘(e) where a gift or a bequest of money is made outside the State to a political party, it is deemed...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: No. I am happy to withdraw my amendment on the basis of what the Minister of State has said, but I may re-enter it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: All donations from outside of the State need to be declared regardless of whether they come from a citizen or not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: As the provision stands it says we can make a contribution or donation within the regulations. My understanding, which I mentioned in my remarks when we discussed the amendment, is that every donation, regardless of its size, needs to be declared now. Is that presented cumulatively or individually in terms of the statutory reporting requirement? An example would be if John Reilly in London...