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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 1439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in counties Louth and Meath respectively who are or were in the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2019 to 2022 and on 1 January, 2023; if he will provide an update on the status of his stated plans to review the DTSS; the timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (18 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 1440. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a status update on the provision of podiatry services at the HSE Boyne primary care centre and at the Community Services Building, Dublin Road, Dundalk respectively; the number of persons on a waiting list for the service at these locations; the number of staff engaged at these locations on podiatry services; the number of vacant posts...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of those with company cars over the financial impact of changes to the benefit-in-kind regime which came into force this month; if he is considering measures to assist such workers to mitigate the additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of a report (details supplied) detailing that Ireland’s richest 1% control a quarter of the country’s wealth, he will review the Government’s approach to taxes on wealth as suggested in the Labour Party’s alternative budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned about the impact on households of the increased costs of servicing mortgages on homes as a result of rising interest rates; if he is considering any policy interventions to assist mortgage-holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if young refugee students from Ukraine who are due to sit State examinations in 2023 and 2024 and will soon be making CAO applications and seeking SUSI support students will be treated as EU or Ukrainian citizens in the calculation of their college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2914/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish third level institutions will be able to admit refugee students from Ukraine who are resident in Ireland, engaged in distance learning with a Ukrainian institution and with credit for modules already completed in a comparable course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the expected overpayment of income tax by PAYE workers in each of the years 2019 to 2022; the steps that the Revenue Commissioners takes to ensure that people understand that they may be due a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses have a view on the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's indigenous enterprise review, which was published recently? It pointed up a lot of problems with our indigenous enterprise base. It refers to low productivity and what might be done with the research and development situation. I will put that first to the ESRI and then Mr. Coffey might respond.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The experience over many decades has been that is has been difficult to enable microbusinesses or SMEs to scale up sufficiently where they are getting seriously involved in exporting, which is where the added value is and is where they become more productive and of greater benefit by adding higher value jobs and so on. When plans were first announced to revise the indigenous enterprise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: It is a dynamic situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Yes, that was back in 2015.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to extending the cut to excise duty on petrol and diesel beyond the end of February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3950/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a VAT-related matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 400. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when operational schedules for the rifle range at Gormanston Army Camp will return to regular publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if correspondence from his Department to the Central Bank to which a newspaper article refers (details supplied) will be provided to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5127/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: As a rule, I remain somewhat sceptical about the efficacy of mortgage interest relief in delivering real help to the households who need it most, because our experience has been the mortgage interest relief system in the past tended to favour the better-off with bigger mortgages and therefore assets of greater value. However, in light of five ECB rate hikes since last July, there is an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am aware of that quirk or anomaly, if I can describe it as such. It has been raised in the media this week. I saw the relevant statement and I think it was timely. There is a way this issue can be addressed. We could define "commercial landlord" in the legislation. Clearly, many of these supports were developed quickly and when moving quickly and without an evidential basis, it is...