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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party wants to see an Ireland that works for all. We are honest enough to know that all the things we want and our country needs, such as affordable childcare, a transformation to a carbon-free economy and a health service we all can be proud of, need to be paid for. The same honesty should be demanded of the Government, as well as of Sinn Féin, which has yet to respond to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have to move the amendment to resolution No. 2-----

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 1 to Financial Resolution No. 2 reads: "In paragraph (1), to delete “be extended until 28 February 2023” and substitute “be extended until 31 December 2023”." The amendment represents a request to extend the VAT cut that was introduced last spring on electricity and gas bills. The Minister has sought to extend it to the end of February but the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am sharing time with my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith. As a country, we are unrecognisable from the young, poor and conservative State we were when the Tricolour was first raised over Dublin Castle in 1922. We are now richer than we have ever been in our history. We are more liberal, open, diverse, welcoming and confident as a society then anyone could have imagined even half a century...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----costing €275 million in 2023. That is the kind of ambition we need to transform this society and to genuinely assist those who are on low and middle incomes. This is why the Labour Party says, for example, that we should have a monthly €9 public transport climate ticket, costing €300 million over the next six months, as a cost-saving and climate-positive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the appeals made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth against the decision not to be provided school bus tickets in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47333/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (28 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to a full redress scheme for construction defects; if so, if the scheme will be retrospective for persons who have already carried out safety work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47417/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the report on increasing the social housing income limits nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental housing units that will be delivered in 2022; the individual project targets for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47419/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of advice or guidance his Department has provided to county councils or the EPA, having regard to the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1993, the European Union Water Framework Directive and the European Communities (Water Policy) Regulation 2003 (SI 722 of 2003), to assist them when assessing all existing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of individual packages refused entry to Ireland due to a lack of a valid customs declaration form or electronic customs declaration form for each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the percentage the refused packages constituted of the total number of packages handled by customs for each of these years. [47751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of foreign postal services that have registered to use the automated import system to date (details supplied), which will enable them to register electronic customs declaration forms on behalf of customers; and the names of these foreign postal services. [47752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned Irish citizens living or travelling in countries whose postal services have failed to register on the automated import system will be prevented from sending parcels of any kind to Ireland; and the way this may shut off Ireland from the global postal system. [47753/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps 'an individual can take to send items to Ireland if they are posting such items from countries whose postal services have yet to register on the automated import system; and if he is concerned at the risk of Ireland developing a reputation that is unfriendly to international business and trade. [47754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if any foreign postal service has refused to register for the automated import system to date; and if he will provide the identities of these postal services. [47755/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: At the start of this debate I thought I had stumbled into the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis. It was quite an extraordinary defence, with all respect to the Acting Chairman. I am sure he was there and I am sure he enjoyed it. The defence of Housing for All is quite extraordinary and does not tally with the lived experience of the people I and most of us in this House represent. I am talking...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. For the record, our amendment states: "further calls on the Government to: - replace the Defective Concrete Products Levy with a levy on profits derived from construction; and - commit to the introduction in the Finance Bill 2022 of retrospective tax relief for those already carrying out remediation works on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has examined or requested a SWITCH analysis of the budget 2023 measures, excluding the 2022 temporary cost-of-living measures to be carried out; if he will provide a copy of any such analysis reviewed by his Department, for the distributional impact of the permanent expenditure and taxation changes from budget 2023...