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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State very much for his response and he has explained the rationale as to why what I describe as an exemption has been provided to the private nursing home sector for non-EEA healthcare assistants and home support workers. I accept the Minister of State's good faith and bona fides here. We engaged on this in another context in this Chamber last week. From the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: It looks like there is another increase due in January of next year and a subsequent increase is due in January 2026. That will take the threshold to €39,000. That is some leap from €27,000. There is one way to resolve all of this and to obviate the need for deferrals at all. We know the private nursing home sector is simply synonymous with low pay and poor conditions when it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for a pause in the increase to the minimum salary threshold in respect of the non-EEA general employment permit scheme for healthcare assistants; if he will consider the introduction of a JLC-ERO system to apply to healthcare assistants in the private nursing homes and home care sector; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: Will the Minister of State elaborate on comments made last week about the Minister’s decision to pause the increase that was due in minimum salary rates in respect of the general employment permit for healthcare assistants and home care support workers from non-EEA areas? Consequent to that, will he consider the introduction of a joint labour committee or employment regulation order...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will publish legislation to modernise and update the Freedom of Information Act and ethics in public office legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5994/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide current guidelines and policy documents in respect of his Department's policy and advices to local authorities with regards to tenant transfers between local authorities on compassionate or exceptional grounds particularly with respect to elderly persons and senior citizen housing (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the role and functions of the coroner in a case where a citizen resident in the State has died in suspicious or unexplained circumstances outside the State and his or her body has been repatriated here. [6008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (7 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he hopes to publish the report of the Finance for Scaling Working Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an individual transport service request arrangement for a person (details supplied) will be made available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4987/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of warehoused tax debt arising from the scheme introduced during the pandemic that has yet to be repaid to the Exchequer; if he is considering extending the repayment period again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4817/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: The deadline is looming in May 2024 for businesses to make arrangements with the Revenue Commissioners to repay tax debt warehoused during the pandemic. The Minister made comments to the media when he was in Davos that suggested very clearly that he intends to make changes to the operation of that scheme and potentially to the way in which repayments are to be organised. The word he used...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: Time is of the essence in this regard. It is clear from the figures the Minister provided that a very substantial proportion of those who have warehoused tax debt have actually met their liabilities in full and a considerable number of businesses have made arrangements with Revenue. It was a very important scheme and it gave viable companies breathing space during the pandemic and made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Minister is very clear on the issues the hospitality sector is experiencing at the moment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: I too urge those companies who have not yet engaged to engage very quickly and not to adopt a wait-and-see approach. Further clarity would be welcome from the Minister in the coming weeks about what it is he intends to do in terms of greater flexibility, as he described it. There is a balancing act here as well. Where liabilities fall due, businesses ought to pay those liabilities to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: If you could bear with me a moment, Acting Chair, there are many businesses in the hospitality sector-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----who for example, in terms of their projections for the wage subsidy scheme-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----they are paying a significant debt in that regard.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: They made projections in terms of the 30% threshold and they have actually exceeded the thresholds.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: Perhaps some pragmatism should be shown to them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in submitting a planning application for the permanent school buildings for the Drogheda Educate Together second level school, Mill Road, Mornington, Drogheda, Co. Louth; when the planning application will be submitted; the timeline for the completion of the new permanent building; and if she will make a statement on...