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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minster for the comprehensive response. To be fair to him, I do detect an appetite to comprehensively address this real social problem across our country. It is a scourge that affects every community. The Minister said quite correctly that dereliction is complex. I do not pretend that it is not. We have been dealing with this in my community for a long time. We are trying to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I can understand the logic that is applied in terms of using the five regional development centres, as defined under the terms of the national planning framework, but there may very well be scope to expand this initiative to towns - for example, as I explained in the proposed amendment that was ruled out of order, towns of over 20,000 - because of the extent of vacancy and dereliction in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: Will the information be available to everyone?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: We absolutely do have recurring taxes on property and the Minister outlined them earlier. There is the capital gains tax, inheritance tax, CAT and local property tax. We are probably one of the few countries in the world where people who describe themselves as being on the left decided they would set their face against local property taxes. We know that the bulk of wealth, or at least a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thought I saw a look of panic on some of the faces. Far be it for me to panic them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Tánaiste said nothing about Drogheda.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: He was on Instagram all weekend and said nothing about Drogheda. He did not condemn it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: The man with no thought that goes untweeted said nothing. It is my hometown.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is true though.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: 460. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of PAYE taxpayer units who may have either underpayments or overpayments for the 2023 and 2024 tax years respectively; the number who have not yet submitted a tax return; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: 648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the difficulties being experienced by already qualified teachers on supply panels (details supplied), who appear to be losing out to newly-qualified teachers for CID posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57940/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1095. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to designate Drogheda as a city in law, and for local Government administrative purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59227/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: 2165. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional financial support will be made available to community development organisations, in terms of their core funding under various Department-supported funding streams, to assist them in meeting their obligations as employers under the new pension auto-enrolment obligations from 2026; and if he will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I understand the constraints under which Mr. Makhlouf is operating. He put on the record that the issuer, meaning the State of Israel, decided that from 1 September 2025 it would cease making offers to the public under its prospectus in Ireland. Moving on from Deputy Brennan's question, precisely when did the Central Bank receive the confirmation from the State of Israel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I find that extraordinary. When the information was forwarded to the witness by the Israeli authorities is a basic matter of fact. I am not trying to be deliberately difficult here. Generally speaking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: -----when it comes to establishing dates and matters of fact that are not commercially sensitive, I cannot understand why that information is not forthcoming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: It would be helpful if we could establish that, given Mr. Makhlouf said earlier or at least indicated in response to Deputy Brennan, that he would like to think that the work of the committee and so on contributed to a decision made by the Israeli state not to, for want of a better description, re-engage the Central Bank of Ireland in terms of the approval of a new prospectus. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is part of the process and it does not necessarily relate to the detail in terms of any commercial or market sensitivity. It is a straightforward question. On what date did the issuer contact the Central Bank to confirm it would no longer be making offers to the public under the prospectus in Ireland?

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on the Finance Bill. It gives effect to many of the announcements made in the budget two short weeks ago. If we needed any convincing that budget 2025 was all about the pending election, budget 2026, a bare budget for working people, and the associated Finance Bill prove the point beyond any doubt. This time last year, billions in once-off payments were thrown around...