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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....

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

Gerald Nash: Mr. Mark Paul broke the story in The Irish Timesyesterday that a company called MML Holdings, which owns O'Flaherty Holdings, received €1.8 million in taxpayer funded wage subsidies in 2020. It made profits of nearly €10 million last year but here is the rub. It also paid out a dividend of almost exactly the same amount as subsidy to Hailstone Holdings, an offshore company in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to convert the current employment wage subsidy scheme into a permanent, remodelled short-time work scheme in view of the continued impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62144/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his plans for the tax treatment of interest-free or low-interest loans in view of recent figures from an organisation (details supplied) that show a significant percentage, 42%, of first-time buyers used gifts to help fund deposits needed to secure a mortgage to purchase a home; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the recent divergence between reported and previously forecast Exchequer figures may mitigate against proper planning and resource use and planning in the public finances; his plans to undertake a review of his Department’s forecasting methodologies in view of this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62146/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his plans to reduce the State’s shareholding in a bank (details supplied); the sale price and revenue raised to Exchequer from each reduction in the State’s shareholding in the bank since June 2021; the consultancy fees paid to date to a brokerage organisation for facilitating the sale of the State’s...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent comments by a person (details supplied) with regard to the potential for increased revenue to the Exchequer due to the planned increase in the minimum corporation tax rate from 12.5% to 15%; his plans to undertake an updated analysis on the impacts of a new minimum rate of 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62145/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied at levels of compliance with the requirement to wear face masks on public transport; if his Department and the CIÉ group of companies are monitoring compliance with and enforcement of the regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of applications made by Departments for data-sharing purposes under the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62571/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of meetings held by the Data Governance Board in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62572/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff in the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62573/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made on the personal access data portal as per Part 8 of the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62574/21]