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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: Is there a future for the fund?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: Does Mr. Leahy see a repurposed Ireland Strategic Investment Fund coming out of this process, namely, an entity with more resources to invest? Will it have a function in this? I am assuming it will. Again, it the policy decision-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: Avoiding dead weight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am glad reference was made to the fact that whatever approach is taken in respect of covering age-related expenditure, it will not be at such expense. There will be difficult policy decisions over the next period with regard to the PRSI base, which is crucial to ensuring the long-term viability of the Social Insurance Fund, given the demands that we are very aware of. It was not long...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: That is understood.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: I refer to international experience and, again, I accept that the policy decision ultimately has not been made but it is heading in one direction. We have read the scoping document and the examples of Australia, Japan and Norway provided. We are not Norway and let us be frank about that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: What we want to achieve is important but albeit modest in a Norwegian context. Let us not compare ourselves against Norway. However, the engagement with the Norwegian representative was useful in terms of our own thinking on the direction of travel of this. Is there a fund or vehicle that – though every case is different – might be more directly applicable to Ireland and...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: I asked for five minutes but I may wander a little beyond that if that is in order. It turns out I may have more to say than I originally anticipated, based on contributions from colleagues and the Minister of State's earlier response. One thing the Minister of State and her officials in the Department could usefully consider is directly engaging with people who work in the industry. She...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: The very last phone call I got on my mobile phone before I came in here this evening was from somebody I have represented for many years, a person who has been told by his landlord that he is just about to receive an eviction notice. He is married with a large family and is now contemplating what he can do. He knows that if he looks around the Drogheda area, he will simply not be able to...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: It will be next door to us.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: The two things that define me are my football and my class. They are linked inextricably. One of my very first memories is of Northern Ireland playing Spain in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. I was playing football on the street in Newfield, an estate the Minister of State would be familiar with, and I remember being called in to watch a hugely-anticipated match. I drank that match in with two...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: My point is this: football fills us with hope. It fills us with dreams. It allows us to think big things for ourselves and for our communities. My colleague, Deputy Aodhán Ó Riordáin, articulated so eloquently earlier on the place of football in our society and history, which has often been derided, scorned and sneered at through our State's history. Nothing that he said...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including testosterone cypionate in the drug payment scheme in view of the financial hardships being endured by patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is concerned about the series of proposed collective redundancies at a company (details supplied); if he will confirm the date on which he was formally notified by the company; if the IDA is working with the company to minimise the number of potential redundancies and identify cost savings as an alternative to redundancies at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to accommodating an individual (details supplied) in a certain accommodation centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34739/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: The witnesses are all very welcome and I thank them for their presentation. In its statement and in a range of different interventions it has made recently, the Central Bank seems to be saying that the spending and tax plans set out by Government both in the summer economic statement and, subsequently, in the more concerning pathway it put into the public domain post the summer economic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: May I make an intervention, just to be clear? It would be useful to get a sense of this from the Central Bank. These are the published figures but €4 billion in non-core expenditure is also expected. Will Dr. Kelly add that into the calculations?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: This excess spending, as Dr. Kelly would have it, is adding to inflation and creating a bigger problem. This excess is also counter to the approach of the ECB.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Government spending is contributing to higher rates of inflation than would otherwise be experienced.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Tax cuts contribute to fiscal expansion and, therefore, to inflation.