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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 118 of Principal Act (benefit-in-kind: relief for bicycles) 3.Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5G): “(5GA) Where expenses incurred in, or in connection with, the provision of a bicycle or bicycle...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: That is unfortunate. I will just speak to amendment No. 4 again. For most reliefs of this nature, when we look at benefit in kind, by definition there is a presumption of an employee-employer relationship. I will note that the rent tax credit for a student can be claimed by parents. The Minister is making provision for that. The same principle should apply to his consideration of this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on benefit-in-kind: cycle to school 3. 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 bicycle...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: We are on the question of PAYE assessments and refunds and release more broadly. The Minister announced on budget day that he and the Revenue Commissioners intend to roll out a public campaign to inform people of their entitlements. I know from a reply to a parliamentary question I received from him last week that there are several hundred thousand tax units or individuals who have yet to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will not be surprised to hear my concerns about the help-to-buy scheme articulated again. Since it was introduced in 2016 or 2017, it has cost the Exchequer close to €700 million. The Labour Party and others in opposition are of the view that there are better ways to spend limited public resources to ensure people are housed appropriately. I have said time and again...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: We are used to the Government of the day, whatever the colour of that Government is, describing itself as a responsible policymaker. In this case, it is the Opposition that is the responsible policymaker, because this policy is bananas from a public policy point of view. By the time this scheme is wound down, and it certainly will not be wound down between now and the general election...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely. It is common practice, but that does not make it right. For the Minister to say he is concerned about certainty suggests that we should be undertaking work to design the kind of scheme referred to earlier or the kinds of schemes which Mazars and others might have in mind that would appropriately address the problem. This is not appropriately addressing the problem; it is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 5: In page 15, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "Tax credits, etc.: report on cost of indexation 10.The Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform shall include in their Summer Economic Statement in each year a report setting out the estimated cost to the Exchequer of adjusting— (a) tax rate bands and tax credits...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 13: In page 24, lines 3 and 4, to delete all words from and including “the” where it firstly occurs in line 3 down to and including line 4 and substitute the following: “the Revenue Commissioners shall— (a) maintain and publish on their website a current list of the names and addresses of charities having CHY numbers, and (b) in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am happy to withdraw the amendment and might table it again on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 14: In page 25, lines 6 to 8, to delete all words from and including “the” where it firstly occurs in line 6 down to and including line 8 and substitute the following: “the Revenue Commissioners shall maintain and publish on their website a current list of the names, counties and games and sports exemption numbers of the bodies of persons that are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party opposes this section and the initiative involved on the basis of the basic rule of thumb that a landlord should not pay less tax on his or her passive income or investment than a PAYE worker on his or her income. I do not believe the policy is sustainable, as has been said before, including by me. Assistant professor of economics Barra Roantree, who works in Trinity...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am sorry for being late for this element of the debate. I am conscious that I did not hear all the contributions but I imagine they were framed around the experience over countless years of debating, here and elsewhere, this particular proposition. In discussions about how we tax wealth, I am always intrigued, not by the division between left and right but by the divisions within the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I know we are up against the clock. We will not conclude discussion of these amendments this evening. The Committee on Budgetary Oversight has spent an enormous amount of time discussing and debating these really important issues. It goes back to the basic principle of no cash without conditions, something we are very bad at implementing and enforcing in this country. I absolutely agree...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: There is a degree of value in what Deputy English said. That may be something we could explore at some point in the future when the Minister with responsibility for the sector could look critically at the idea of introducing sectoral bargaining arrangements on a more formal basis. I am open to persuasion on whether a joint labour committee is the right approach. Deputy English is familiar...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 22: In page 71, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(3) The Film Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 119 of 2019) made by the Revenue Commissioners under section 481 of the Principal Act are amended by the insertion after Regulation 3(4) of the following: “(5) In this Regulation quality employment means employment— (a) provided under...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline how much Ireland received under the SURE EU programme; to confirm how these funds were used; what auditing was required under the EU facility; how the funds were accounted for in the GGB; what the repayment schedule for the loans are; what the interest rate is on the repayments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49847/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (14 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the child of a person in Meath (details supplied) will get an appointment for a NEPS assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49463/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when transport will be provided to a person in Drogheda (details supplied) to attend much-needed disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 14 February 2023, if he will confirm when the promised resource for the Drogheda area, by way of provision for a full-time staff post on the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement (DRIVE) programme, as provided for in Budget 2023, will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49456/23]