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

Gerald Nash: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal filed by a person (details supplied) in County Louth on a decision not to provide school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53963/22]

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on behalf of the Labour Party on this important Bill. Members will be more pleased to hear that I will not use my full 20 minutes. I will keep to the standard set by previous speakers. As the Minister of State mentioned in his contribution, I was involved in amending the Credit Guarantee Act 2012. The work I did was in 2015. The beauty of the parent legislation, if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the incentives, if any, that will be provided to companies and workers who require company vehicles, to move to EVs, especially in view of the impact of changes to the BIK regime on such workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are currently writing to carers, widow’s pensioners, people on invalidity pensions and other DSP recipients, with no other income sources requesting them to complete income tax return before 31 October 2022 and 16 November 2022 for previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021 due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Archaeological Sites (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is correct that there are delays currently in his Department issuing archaeological licences for archaeological projects; if so, the reason for these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54757/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth against the decision not to provide a school bus ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54552/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for domiciliary care allowance made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the range of financial supports and funding streams available to schools to provide for meals and or food for students; if her Department is prepared to provide new and additional supports to schools in this regard in the context of the cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding streams and supports her Department makes available to schools across the country to provide food for students; if any new schemes are being developed to meet rising needs in the context of the cost-of-living challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54747/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: There are other Members here.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank has undertaken, or plans to undertake, an analysis of the potential impact of rising ECB interest rates on Irish mortgage holders; his views as to whether the Central Bank will require additional regulatory powers to protect those with variable and tracker mortgages from rising rates, given the lack of competition in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: Homeowners are scared stiff of the threat of rising mortgage interest rates. Markets expect the ECB to continue raising rates until the middle of next year, with a peak of 3% anticipated. Tracker mortgage holders, as we know, have already felt the impact, and variable-rate mortgage holders are next in the firing line. Has the Minister's Department carried out any assessment at this stage...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: To be clear, I am not specifically requesting that the Minister introduce any change to the tax code in this regard. I have never requested that. That is not what my question seeks to do. Thankfully, the main lenders in the market have held off raising their variable mortgage interest rates to date, but I think there is a certain inevitability that those rates will rise over the coming...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I think it is inevitable that the main banks will pass on the likely increases in the ECB rate over the coming period. The perverse reality is that the environment we are in at the moment, as interest rates go up, means that bank profitability will go up as well. I would like the Government to send a signal, and this House should send a signal, that banks should, given the climate at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, post-budget analysis that suggests that permanent tax changes made in budget 2023 will disproportionately benefit higher earners; if he is concerned that full-time workers who are on the minimum wage will not see the full benefit of the planned 80 cent an hour increase in the national minimum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: For full-time workers on the national minimum wage, a significant portion of the 80 cent an hour increase they will receive in July will be swallowed up. In the budget, the Government failed to adjust the relevant PRSI bands to account for the increase and to ensure the full increase would go into the pockets of those who benefit from the national minimum wage increase. There are no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That would be appreciated. It is something we intend to raise in the context of the Finance Bill and probably more appropriately, the social welfare Bill. Our own analysis, which has been confirmed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, shows that in terms of the national minimum wage, a worst-case scenario could see many full-time workers on the minimum wage lose more than 30% of the 80 cent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will put on record, and various respective think tanks have said it as well, that PRSI parameters will remain unchanged, and that will increase the PRSI burden on a full-time minimum wage worker. The threshold for those earning below €424 is not changing. There will, therefore, be an impact. More than 30% of the increase will be swallowed up because the kinds of PRSI adjustments...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party does not support either of the amendments for the same reason we outlined this time last year when discussing very similar amendments. As the Minister noted, the USC raises a significant amount of revenue to be spent on the public services on which we all depend. Those on low and middle incomes especially depend on quality public services. There is an onus, of course, on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I organised the meeting at which Deputy Farrell was present. It speaks volumes that contract cleaners and security guards who worked right throughout the pandemic on the front line in our hospitals, and who put themselves at risk, had to take time out of work to attend a meeting in Leinster House with their union to drive home the reality of life for them. It is disgraceful that they have...