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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance if landlords of apartments and duplexes, excluding local authorities and approved housing bodies, can write off service charges and levies to fund the remediation of defects imposed by owners management companies against their tax liabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual value of tax write-offs to the Exchequer by duplex and apartment landlords in relation to service charges and levies to fund the remediation of defects imposed by owners management companies against their tax liabilities; if he plans to extend the facility to write-off service charges and remediation levies against tax liabilities to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 297. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of a reduction of the rate of VAT on energy bills from 13.5% to 9% for a 12-month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46807/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for an urgent introduction of a vacant property tax to alleviate the ongoing accommodation crisis; his further views on whether the introduction of a significant vacant property tax has the potential to free up a significant number of empty properties particularly those purchased by large investor funds; the status of his most recent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of towns awaiting progress for the commencement of phase one of the collaborative town health check process; the budget allocated by his Department to the Heritage Council for this initiative in 2021; the average costing for an initiative per town based on the experience of operating the programme by his...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passports will be issued for the children of persons (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46613/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first-year students a school (details suppled) will be permitted to enrol in the 2022-2023 school year; if her Department will increase the capacity of the school in view of the demand for enrolment; when a decision will be made on enrolment numbers; when it will be communicated to the school management; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on assisted human reproduction Bill; the steps he is taking to create a legislative framework to govern surrogacy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46688/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 744. To ask the Minister for Health if young persons who did not partake in the HPV vaccine programme during their first year of secondary school may still avail of the programme at a later date; the procedure to avail of the HPV vaccine for young persons under such circumstances, for example, after first year of secondary school; if a charge will be incurred for persons who are seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (28 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of and position regarding the dormant account funds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46093/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: The Minister is most welcome to the committee's proceedings today. I can assure the Minister that I will give him as much time as he needs within the parameters the Chair will allow to answer the questions I have for him and the observations that I will make. I will try to be relatively brief. I wish to focus on the issue of corporation tax and the impacts that proposed reforms will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an outline of recent communications with the Minister for Health pertaining to the scale of non-competitive and non-compliant procurement practices by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the Top Level Appointments Committee should have a role in the recruitment of special envoys to ensure that the full details of any future appointments to be shared in advance and adequately considered in a proper way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45500/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the under-profile and outturn of capital expenditure to date in 2021; if he will provide an update on the revised National Development Plan; if the National Development Plan will address the recent IPCC report and set out clear plans and targets with respect to climate action; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has held discussions with the Minister for Finance with regard to the need to raise additional revenue to fund permanent current expenditure increases given his intention that Government borrowing would only be for capital investment purposes by 2023 as stated in his recent updates to the Cabinet on Expenditure Management and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for his decision to propose a full new review of ethics legislation rather than restore the existing Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 to the order paper of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45496/21]

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am very proud to wrap up this debate on the first legislation that Deputy Bacik has introduced to this House as a new Member. It is grounded very much in a history of progressive legislation that she has introduced in the Oireachtas that is designed to improve the lives of the many, as this legislation does. We know that precarious housing leads to precarious lives, a precarious...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, employment wage subsidy scheme and Covid restrictions scheme compliances programmes respectively; the percentage of employers availing of each scheme who have been contacted by the Revenue Commissioners regarding repayments; the total amount of repayments due from employers under each scheme; the total amount...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Process (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a recent Parliamentary Budget Office report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45515/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: Does the notion that we could end up losing €2 billion or, as far as Mr. Barnes is concerned in another assessment, €3 billion in corporation tax to the Exchequer, as a result of the OECD process, need some revision?