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

Gerald Nash: This time last week the Minister and his Government colleagues were patting themselves on the back on a job well done on budget day. There is no shortage of graphs and other narrative in the glossy expenditure report claiming how much better off low-income households will be as a result of the once-off measures combined with the budget 2023 measures. However, when we strip away the...

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

Gerald Nash: I absolutely get that. It is normal practice that the distributional impact of a budget would provided in the Exchequer report. A bit of a con job was attempted to be perpetrated against the Irish people, quite frankly. I read the documents and I do not see any separate, isolated analysis for the measures and provisions that apply for 2023 exclusively. Of course, when one looks in the...

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

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister’s commitment on the record of the House to provide that additional analysis. That is very useful, indeed. It is not abstract, either. It is an important analysis to have. I draw the Minister’s attention to the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, post-budget analysis from the Vincentian Partnership. It essentially concur with some of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to ensure that all contractors that are awarded State public procurement contracts pay all staff a living wage given the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48279/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will be brief. This question relates to the Government's plans, if any, to ensure that all contractors who are awarded State public procurement contracts pay all staff a living wage. I will clarify this question somewhat by acknowledging that the Government is in some ways powerless, given that there is no formal living wage in place. The National Minimum Wage Act governs this area. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am very familiar indeed with the SEO system and the employment regulation order, ERO, system that gives effect to the decisions of joint labour committees and ministerial sign offs regarding statutory minimum rates of pay higher than the national minimum wage, which would apply, for example, to contract cleaners and security workers. There...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: Accepting that the Government is powerless and is governed by the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and that the national minimum wage is not yet at €12.17 per hour, which is the current rate but which will, undoubtedly, go up, given the rise in the cost of living, when the living wage working group report is published later this year, one thing the Government could do concerns the small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: They are earning under €12.17 per hour.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his plans to reform the Standards in Public Office Commission; and when the Heads of the Ethics in Public Office Standards Bill 2015 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his plans in response to a spending review (details supplied) published by his Department; his views on whether the findings of the review would enable staff to avoid travel to and from the city centre on a daily basis and if there would be consequential savings in a reduced leasehold portfolios in the city centre; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his proposals for a windfall tax on energy companies in a scenario in which no agreement is reached at an European Union level; if such proposals will be included in the Finance Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected dividend from the ESB in 2022 and 2023, respectively; if he has sought a specific figure from the ESB for windfall profits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the qualifying criteria for the rent tax credit; if tenants in approved housing bodies, local authorities and cost-rental developments respectively will be eligible; and if not, the reasoning for that exclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated projected cost of extending the 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas for the remainder of 2023; the estimated cost for the extension in January and February 2023; the estimated additional average cost to a household and a business from the higher VAT rate applying for the remaining ten months in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated projected cost of the Special Assignee Relief Programme in 2023; the reason that no cost has been attributed to extending the Programme in Budget 2023 documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that the projected cost of the help to buy scheme is listed as €83 million in Budget 2023 documentation given that the full-year cost in 2022 will be substantially more; the expected underlying level of applications for the help to buy scheme in 2023; the estimated average payment for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of pre-letting expenses for landlords at the €5,000 cap in 2020, 2021 and those projected for 2022, respectively; and the rationale for the projected cost of €1 million in the first year, and €2 million in a full year are grounded on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of housing units that are expected to be subject to the vacant homes tax in 2023; the number of homes that informed the €3 million yield in Budget 2023 documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 557. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount of once-off support to Section 39 bodies that will arise from the cost-of-living budget package in which he outlined that €110 million would be allocated to a range of health-funded bodies; the formula that will be used to award same; if similar payments will be made for Tusla-funded Section 56 bodies and section 10 homeless...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount that it will cost the Exchequer to bring the pay of workers in Section 39 organisations in line with public service pay agreements, Building Momentum and its potential successor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48374/22]