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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I assume the Minister has done considerable analysis with his officials on the potential revenue and has liaised with local authorities on this.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: The local authorities were initially responsible-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----in terms of gathering the data and that is as it should be. There is an opportunity to propose that people who are actively farming, as the Minister has described-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I do not mean to be obtuse, and I certainly would not be obtuse with the Minister, but it seems that something is missing from this discussion. I go back to my experience on local authorities many years ago when developing master plans for rapidly developing areas. It is open to landowners to have their land dezoned. As far as the Minister is aware and his officials can establish, of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: As well as that, there is no single panacea for addressing the housing shortage we have. We are well aware of the labour shortages we have in this country in terms of even meeting the Government's own modest targets in housing delivery. This is certainly key to unlocking Ireland's potential to house those who need homes and enabling us to reach our economic potential. I hope there are no...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I read a headline in The Examiner this afternoon that read something to the effect that the Minister will not abolish inheritance tax.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I expect tomorrow that you will say you are not abolishing VAT, income tax or corporation tax.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: Well done. To be fair, the Minister does not write the headlines.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I have a couple of further questions. It was reported in an interview the Minister did with the political editor of The Irish Times at the weekend that an additional €3 billion in capital expenditure will be made available next year. That will involve the proceeds of the sale of part of the State's shares in AIB. Has a formal Government decision been made on the use of that money...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: No formal decision has been made in a memo to the Government at this time at this point on the use of that €3 billion of AIB shares.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also have a question for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. Additional resources have been made available to health for the remainder of this year. This is strictly speaking not a matter for him, but for the Minister for Health. When does he expect the Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health to be brought forward and presented to the Dáil?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: We have been reading reports this afternoon that the finance Bill will be published on 10 October. Is that the case?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: Has that already been publicly announced?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Ministers and appreciate their engagement this evening. I wish them well over the next couple of weeks. That concludes our public session. I thank the Ministers and their officials for attending; it is appreciated. I ask the remaining members to remain behind. We are due to have a brief private meeting when we exit public session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I now invite the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: It has been deferred already.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----ought to be exempted from this. How many active farmers are we talking about?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide data on the number of holiday homes that received the Government electricity credit in the past year; the number of holiday-home meter points that were deemed ineligible under the measures introduced to exclude low-usage customers; the estimated potential cost of extending the credit to holiday homes in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the s.481 regional uplift; and if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions. [36411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider establishing a programme to provide safe passage via a humanitarian entry visa to Ireland for Palestinians in Gaza, similar to other prior international programmes (details supplied); her views on whether such a programme would provide Gazans with a safe and legal passage to Ireland through neighbouring...