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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on benefit-in-kind: cycle to school 8. The Minster shall, within six months after the passing of this Act, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the design and cost of a scheme of exemption from a charge to tax on expenses incurred in the purchase of bicycles or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 8: In page 14, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 469 of Principal Act (relief for health expenses) 10.Section 469 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1), in the definition of “practitioner”, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “(aa) registered in a register...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 59: In page 91, to delete lines 5 to 7, inclusive, and substitute the following: “44. (1) Section 46 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)(caa), by the substitution of “28 February 2023” for “31 October 2022”. (2) The Minister shall, before 14 February 2023, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response and there is some logic to what he is saying. The suggestion is that many measures, and the position more generally, will be examined in the spring because it is inevitable that this will have to be the case. When the once-off measures wear off at the end of this year and we strip them away, we will see that budget 2023 proper will not have the kind of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will withdraw my amendment but I may reintroduce it on Report Stage.

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

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his wide-ranging response. What I discern from it - the Minister can correct me if I am wrong - is that he and Government accept the principle that there are recommendations in the report on financial support for those who are affected. If the Minister is not accepting the amendment, which has been put forward in good faith to try to move this pressing and urgent...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Report on the treatment of cohabitants under the Taxes Acts 3.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of cohabitants under the Taxes Acts with regard to the differences in the taxation of a married...

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

Gerald Nash: In response to the Deputy's point, in practical terms, that is the case. It begins and ends when somebody is alive. As we know from the recent court case, people cannot claim a widow's or widower's pension if their long-standing partner passes away. The Labour Party brought a Bill before the Seanad to try to amend the social welfare rules on the widow's contributory pension in order to try...

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

Gerald Nash: As I am not formally a member of the committee, when the Minister corresponds with the committee, I would appreciate if the note could be forwarded to me.

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: "Rent price inflation hits record 14.1% on back of 'extreme shortage of extreme shortage of rental homes"; "Housing starts fall again in October ... [as costs rise]"; "‘Housing crisis is putting education system at risk,' say unions ....". Those are a flavour of the headlines we woke to this morning. Yesterday was a typical Monday for me, and probably most other Deputies, as it...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: We know what happens when we narrow the tax base, and that is exactly what is happening here. If the Government is to proceed with the plans enunciated by the Tánaiste, we are getting into a very dangerous zone. We know what will happen. We have been living with the consequences of narrowing the tax base and the fiscal challenges, to put it mildly, that has imposed on the State over...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is a very welcome development. I want to raise a related matter which was raised on Committee Stage last week in the general discussion on this section. It directly relates to the recognition of the service of those who worked within our public health service, on the front line, during the darkest days of the pandemic - the people who put themselves in danger. They are non-HSE staff...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Voluntary Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Dáil Éireann passing a motion on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 in support of pay increases for community and voluntary sector workers, the action he or his Department has taken to deliver on the commitments listed in the motion; if he intends to provide for a standing forum and mechanism for collective bargaining on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of projects under way by the OPW to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings it manages and owns; the budget for such works in 2022; the projected budget for 2023; the square meters of building space that will be retrofitted this year; the role the OPW has in delivering on climate mitigation and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in publishing the report on the review of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, which was scheduled for early in quarter 3 of 2022, according to the roadmap; if he has received the review report and recommendations yet; when he intends to publish it; if he will be bringing forward changes to the law; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on when the review of ethics legislation will be published; if he will confirm that ten submissions were received by the closure date of the public consultation in mid-January 2022; if those submissions have now all been considered; if he has considered the findings of the review yet; when he intends to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the land, properties or buildings the OPW or his Department have made available in 2022 for housing or accommodation for Ukrainian refugees or those seeking international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider developing, with the ETBs and other statutory education bodies, networks of remote study hubs in regional towns in which there is no third level institution footprint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 551. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will provide services to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56402/22]