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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response. I understand why he might not accept the amendment. The new code of practice is at an early stage in terms of its operation. There is no doubt about that. Some of the changes made represent an improvement on the previous code of practice that showed over the past few years that it was no longer worth the paper it was written on. That is based on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Report on the treatment of Cohabitants under the Taxes Acts 3.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of cohabitants under the Taxes Acts with regard to the differences in the taxation of a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will be familiar with some cases in the public domain in recent months. A partner may lose a partner with whom they have cohabited for considerable years and there can be implications for social welfare entitlements including widows' or widowers' pension entitlements. This has been raised by the Labour Party leader, Deputy Kelly, particularly in the context of social welfare...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Including the wealthy people.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: This is not the kind of discussion I thought we would have today, but it is useful and something we should probably take elsewhere. The discussion will continue because it is a necessary debate to have. We want to achieve the same things as Deputy Boyd Barrett, but we want to start from a different departure point. That would be fair to say. I never like to describe tax as a burden. That...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Whatever justification there may have been for SARP at a different point in our economic cycle, I am not certain of the rationale for the scheme at the moment. I understand where both Deputies are coming from. I will speak to the section relating to the working from home relief. It is good to see there is now the real-time opportunity to post receipts and make that claim. That makes it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Tax credit in respect of MUD construction defect levy payments 4.(1) Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 114: “114A. (1) In this section— ‘owner-occupier’ means a person who owns and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I will be brief then. The amendment is reasonably self-explanatory. It has to do with providing tax credits or reliefs for many of those who are paying for levies in terms of defects identified in their apartments. These apartments would have been built during the so-called boom time period when regulation of the industry was not particularly sound, to put it mildly. We have a situation...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (11 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s plans to allow the Air Corps to carry out priority one ambulance flights on behalf of the HSE; if arrangements will be made and adequate resources provided to allow this to come into effect from the start of 2023 when the current contract for the service expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55303/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 301. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when backpay due to members of the Army Ranger Wing will be paid; the reason the money has not been paid to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55305/21]

Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: It is very elastic.

Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Sadly, like the Minister of State, I am familiar with all of the terms and acronyms in the glossary of the Bill. It is complex and technical legislation but an extremely important Bill nonetheless. The Labour Party will support its passage on Second Stage on a qualified basis. We look forward to going into the legislation in more detail when it comes before the committee. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first and second level school places allocated to schools (details supplied) for the 2021-2022 school year; if she is satisfied that there are sufficient second level first year places available in the Drogheda and east County Meath area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54925/21]

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. The so-called rainy day fund was established in 2018 and for reasons that are fairly obvious at this point in time, only one instalment of €500 million was paid into the fund. That was in 2019. The right thing to do was to use that €500 million to help fight the pandemic and to support jobs and business through the most...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a risk assessment regarding the winding down of the employment wage subsidy scheme and the potential impact on employment levels and the risk of corporate insolvencies; if his Department is considering a replacement scheme based on the principles of the successful German Kurzarbeit short-time work scheme; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a short-term reduction in the rate of VAT charged on energy and certain other household utility bills to assist households with escalating heating and energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54318/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans regarding double tax rules for cross-Border workers (details supplied) who are based in Ireland given the temporary Covid-19 waiver on these rules ends in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of workers aged under 25 years of age whose wages are subsidised through the employment wage subsidy scheme; if he will provide a breakdown on an economic sector by sector basis in respect of the total number of firms in receipt of the scheme as of 1 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54317/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the sale of a portion of the State’s shareholding in a bank (details supplied); the brokerage costs of the sale to date; if he plans to reconsider plans to divest the State of its remaining shareholding in the bank in view of the recent profits posted by the institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54315/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the decision to remove the grant of €2,500 for plug-in hybrid vehicles; if his attention has been drawn to the issues this has created for consumers who have pre-ordered such vehicles in the expectation that grant support would be provided; if consideration will be given to delaying the withdrawal of the grant...