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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (24 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total carryover cost in 2026 of spending measures implemented in Budget 2025; the breakdown of the individual cost of each if available if his Department has compiled a list of the carry over cost for 2026 at this stage of the Budgetary process, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (24 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated total additional cost in 2026 for the implementation of the public sector pay agreement; if the cost for this will come from the allocation for new current spending as outlined in the Summer Economic Statemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50851/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (24 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform The estimated cost of maintaining existing levels of service in 2026; the proportion of this that is accounted for by demographics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50852/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (24 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has compiled the projected cost of maintaining existing levels of service in 2026 as part of the budgetary process; the breakdown of estimated costs by Government Department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50853/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the 2014 policy and practice document on safeguarding IPAS residents against domestic, sexual and gender based violence and harassment considering the National Standards on Reception 2019 and the current best practice evidence for example, work of the EU Agency for Asylum on sexual and gender based violence;...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Dr. Kelly and Dr. O'Brien are both very welcome. The Department of Finance has been wrong. Its forecasts have been incorrect in terms of corporation tax receipts for 13 consecutive years. In most comparable countries, if this was the case, the methodology would be independently reviewed. Should it be?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: We were told repeatedly two, three or four years ago by economists in the Department of Finance that by this point in time, we would probably be €2 billion worse off in terms of corporation tax receipts, even though people like me were reminding them at the time that pillar 2 of the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process was likely to beneficial, at least in the short term,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: We are going to benefit significantly next year in the area of BEPS pillar 2. There is still uncertainty with BEPS pillar 1. Does Dr. Kelly agree that continuing uncertainty is to Ireland’s benefit?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: We also do not know how that G7 arrangement is going to evolve or be implemented, and whether or not it is merely a political declaration remains to be seen. To return to remarks made with regard to broadening the tax base, this is something this Administration seems unlikely to do based on the evidence from the previous Administration. If I were a member of the Commission on Taxation and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: And hardwired into the system.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: On new markets, we know the United States is a country on which we are disproportionately dependent for high-quality foreign direct investment, and not only with regard to corporation tax receipts but for a disproportionate level of income tax receipts and high value-added jobs. We are excessively reliant on the United States but, peculiarly for a state that has done so well from...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Is there a smell of 2007 or 2008 off the economy and the way in which the fiscal position has been managed over the past few years? I ask this because we have a Government that continues to spend, refuses to broaden the tax base, is investing in infrastructure and is expecting a different outcome. We have a huge concentration of risk in corporation tax. Our dependency on corporation tax is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Fiscal management.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Therefore, by definition that is an even bigger risk.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: We cannot control that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: We forget about the income tax that also comes from FDI. We speak all of the time about the concentrated risk to corporation tax. Looking at the most recent data, a huge proportion - the top two deciles - of high income tax payers are earners working in high-value jobs in the FDI sector. There also is massive risk there.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Leading on from Deputy O'Callaghan's point, we are not serious as a country about innovation, developing and evolving our economic model, developing our notoriously unproductive indigenous SME base and hoping we can scale that to the point that it is exporting and adds value if we are not serious about investment in public research. Instead, we have decided on the tax expenditure side to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the witness for appearing before us this evening. The point that Mr. Brady made on existing levels of service, ELS, is well made. It has been a theme of the engagement we have had with IFAC, the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, and others that, putting it diplomatically, that the ELS process could be more transparent, and the methodology could improve and ought to be more...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: That said, by the way, there is more commonality, actually, around the fiscal approach and the approach to public investment than you would ordinarily assume.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is important.