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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...

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: We have spent about €10 billion supporting, at various points over the course of the pandemic, approximately 700,000 jobs and that investment is really significant. I have argued over the last two years, along with my colleagues in the Labour Party, for the attachment of significant labour, social, economic and environmental conditions and it would be important for the Minister to...

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: We will continue to differ on the question of the merits of conditionality around schemes like this. This is taxpayers' money and, in many respects, borrowed money and we need to drive better outcomes. The Minister and I have discussed at length over the last two years the singular and absolute importance of the two wage subsidy schemes as an intervention for saving viable jobs and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the issues raised in correspondence by final year bachelor of education students at a university (details supplied) regarding the upcoming adapted school placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an issue (details supplied); if she has plans to address the issue of a system of pension entitlements for persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1218/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the policy issues raised by a person (details supplied) with regard to the criteria for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62953/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1396. To ask the Minister for Health the level of specialist services available for patients presenting to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for ocular emergencies at weekends; if patients with eye-related emergencies who present to the hospital at late hours or at weekends are seen and treated immediately by a specialist ophthalmologist or a member of the ophthalmology team; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1655. To ask the Minister for Health the reason haematopoietic stem cell transplantation treatment is not available to patients in Ireland with multiple sclerosis; if there are plans to change this approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1226/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I wish the Ceann Comhairle and his family a happy Christmas. His innate patience entitles him to a very good present from Santa Claus this year. I will ask about the vaccination roll-out programme. The Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, in responding to me last week when I asked him to consider establishing a community vaccination and testing centre in Drogheda, seemed to agree with me...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I agree but the type of behaviour I outlined from corporate entities, which is on the record - and I believe there may be more revelations in coming days - should have been made unlawful in the first place as has been the case in Austria and some other countries against which we like to compare ourselves. No conditionality whatsoever was attached to the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS....