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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost of the employment wage subsidy scheme in 2020 and 2021; the projected cost if it had been retained at the same rate as the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the number of employers that have accessed the scheme; the number of employees who have been supported; the estimated full-year cost for 2021 if it were extended for the rest of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Research and Development (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected yield in 2021 from ending the refundable aspect of the research and development tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22930/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected yield from abolishing relief under section 604A; the cost to date to the Exchequer annually of this relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22933/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected yield from every €1 per tonne increase in the carbon tax; the estimated yield if there were a €10 increase in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22934/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the cycle to work scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the cost of the scheme in each of the years; the number of persons who accessed the maximum amount of tax relief in each of those years; the average tax relief in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the increase in the amount of tax relief available under the cycle to work scheme to €1,500 for pedelecs and ebikes and €1,250 for all other bicycles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22936/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs exempted from the high-income individual restriction; the estimated additional yield if those reliefs were not exempted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer from reducing pension relief to the standard rate in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an updated projection for spending by each Department on the basis of the Exchequer figures for August 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review will be undertaken of the case of a teacher (details supplied) in County Louth who recently underwent major surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22708/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken an analysis of whether a German-style short-time working scheme based on the kurzarbeit model could be applied in an Irish context; if he will provide costings for April 2020 to the end of 2021 if such a scheme were to be introduced from 1 April 2020 and based on current departmental economic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected yield from a 0.1% increase in 2021 in the national training fund levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22931/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the history of increases in the national training fund levy over the past five years in tabular form; the projected yield at budget time of each 0.1% increase in tabular form; the actual yield in the full year following the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that Dundalk Institute of Technology is the only institute of technology not to have formally linked into a consortium to obtain technological university status; the actions he and the Higher Education Authority will take to advance technological university status for the institute; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that have taken place with the private purpose-built student accommodation providers regarding the provision of flexible arrangements for the 2020-2021 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to decrease the qualifying criteria for the non-adjacent rate of the SUSI grant from 45km to 24km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students that will be affected by changing the SUSI adjacency rates from 45km to 25km, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23025/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 64. To ask the Taoiseach the names and salaries of his special advisers; and the salaries paid to each Minister of State in his Department. [19728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (8 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reform the calculation method for quarterly, half-yearly and annual charging for motor car tax; his views on whether the system unfairly and excessively overcharges those motorists in the lower income brackets that avail of the quarterly or half-yearly charge; his plans to reform the motor car tax system; and if he will...