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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is real public service reform in the true sense. It would be worthwhile for decisions on the services to be provided to not always come from the centre. What do I mean by that? I mean that the general public ought to be broadly consulted to identify their priorities with regard to access to digital services. A significant resource to prioritise digital services was obtained from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to produce a White Paper on an expansion of the digital services offered by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2803/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to produce a White Paper on the expansion of the digital services offered by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2483/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: We have seen the threshold of €3 million MyGovID users being met and surpassed. According to the EU digital services index, Ireland does very well on digital services. I am keen to understand the next steps the Government has in mind on the provision of more and better digital services for citizens. We know the digitalisation of public services is a key element of the national...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps the OPW has taken to improve ventilation in properties under its aegis in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic; the funding available to the OPW for ventilation enhancements in such buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional new civil and public service positions the State is expected to create in 2022; the number of retirements in whole-time equivalent terms across the civil and public service who are expected to retire in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of efforts to streamline the delivery of large-scale capital projects; the steps he is taking to ensure cost-effective and timely delivery of future projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that he approved, as the majority shareholder in a bank (details supplied), an arrangement whereby mortgages transferring from a bank are to be outsourced to and serviced by a company once the business is transferred to the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 320. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies registered under the employment wage subsidy scheme that have been subjected to audit under the compliance programme of the Revenue Commissioners to 31 December, 2021; the amount that has been clawed back as a consequence of the programme as a result of initiated contact by the Revenue Commissioners and as a result of voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 322. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that were eligible for the employment wage subsidy scheme that have voluntarily returned funding paid out under the scheme up to 31 December 2021; the number of companies that have paid back the full amount they received over the period of their use of the scheme; if the Revenue Commissioners will provide the names of the companies...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of firms that have benefitted from the temporary wage subsidy scheme that were found to have not met the requirements for eligibility for the scheme; the amount that has been returned as a result; the amount outstanding in terms of repayments as of 31 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 323. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request that the Revenue Commissioners undertake an examination of all companies that have benefitted from both the temporary wage subsidy scheme and the employment wage subsidy scheme to establish the extent to which relevant companies have paid out dividends to shareholders while benefitting from Covid-19 related wage subsidies; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 324. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce new conditions on firms in relation to the use of and access to the employment wage subsidy scheme; his views on the fact that some companies have paid dividends to shareholders in the same financial year in which they have accessed State wage subsidies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Consultations (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 358. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the expected commencement date for the retail banking review public consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenways Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Department of Rural and Community Development has sought his Department's views on plans by Louth County Council to use funding approved by that Department to develop the Boyne greenway on the northside of the River Boyne at Mell, Drogheda, County Louth; if his Department has reservations on the proposed project in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if he will provide information on the stated need to consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Minister and I have very different views on the attachment of certain conditions to what was initially the TWSS, now the EWSS. Those arguments and policy differences have been well ventilated and well rehearsed. There is one thing that we do agree on, namely, that companies which evidently did not need this level of State support through the wage subsidy schemes should pay it back....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: They are significant amounts and numbers. Am I correct that these are firms which decided they did not require this money from the State and which voluntarily returned the money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: There are separate issues. Some firms have returned some money and others have gone public stating that they do not require it and have returned it to the State. Am I correct in saying that other firms, through the Revenue compliance programme, have returned significant sums? I ask the Minister to provide a breakdown in terms of the overall compliance scheme to include how many firms have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is reasonable to expect that as part of Revenue's ongoing compliance programme it may have identified a number of firms that were not, in its view, eligible for qualification for the TWSS or the EWSS and that the money was returned on that basis. On the question of firms that do not need the money and have returned it and the question of firms that have paid out dividends, there was...