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

Gerald Nash: Well, entirely. This brings me seamlessly to the next point I want to make. We know from our recent experience that at least the current regime in the United States is a less than reliable partner. There is an unpredictability there that is damaging. We are a state that has done well from globalisation and free trade and the view is that we ought to be doing more trade deals with other...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new Drogheda driving test centre will be opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason corporation tax forecasts from his Department have been inaccurate for 13 consecutive years; the reason this has not prompted an independent review of the forecasting models in use in his Department; if he will commission such a review on an urgent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Process (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will commit to a more consistent and transparent methodological approach and in terms of the presentation of data in respect of 'Existing Levels of Service' or ELS in relation to the annual budget process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50473/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a timeline for the delivery of a statutory instrument (details supplied) relating to timebound provision, enabling eligible teachers who have qualified outside the Republic of Ireland to apply for registration and complete their induction requirement in the Republic of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to extend the MRI service at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital to a seven-day service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49599/25]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Chair. The witnesses are all very welcome to this important engagement. Dr. Barrett mentioned that we had had a loose fiscal disposition in recent years. All the evidence and information seem to point to the fact that we will continue in this budget and into the future under this Government to pursue that same approach, despite the contrary evidence that it is not a good thing...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Coffey. In the minute I have available, I have some questions for our colleagues in the ESRI. They have done strong work over the years on tax expenditure and so on. We know that we are not good at reviewing tax expenditures and that they can often outlive their usefulness, if they are ever useful at all in some instances. Sometimes, tax expenditures are political responses to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Acting Chair. The witnesses are welcome. It is unfortunate this engagement runs up against Leaders' Questions. That is always a challenge but I am pleased to be here. My first question relates to taxation more generally. Mr. McGeady says he would like a per capita tax take scenario to be set out and to move on from there. Would he do that on the basis of excluding...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely and I agree with that. There are many ways in which we can do that but this Government and its predecessor have simply refused to do that. Notwithstanding the fact that Ministers on a recurring basis warn us of the concentrated risks, especially around corporation tax, it is deeply reckless and irresponsible. On the question of benchmarking and social protection rates, I have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: You are on this side of the House now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: Have a word with your brother.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: The witnesses are very welcome. This is an important interrogation of issues that concern all of us. Hardly a week or two goes by when I do not receive a call about them. I imagine colleagues are in precisely the same situation. The calls are received from local businesses and voluntary groups, and indeed from ordinary consumers. They ask why, if there has been all these reform over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: The case is especially strong for that because the Office to Promote Competition in the Insurance Market is approximately five years old now and it is ten years since there has been a new entrant to the market. Five years into the lifetime of that office, we still have no new entrants. The office should not just be concerned necessarily with competition for the market by new entrants but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: If there is evidence to the contrary, show us that and we will accept that but let us interrogate that. Another point that is worth making is that it is fair to assume that peer countries are doing better and businesses, voluntary groups and consumers in those countries are generally doing better with lower premiums. Their providers have more modest profits but profits that are healthy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: That goes without saying. It is, and should be, the case in a democracy. Mr. Hanley mentioned the CCPC in a couple of contexts, including its possibly being asked to review bars to entry. We are all agreed that competition is key in this area. Has the Alliance for Insurance Reform made a formal request to the CCPC to undertake an exercise of that nature?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the provision for free public transport for children under 9 years of age to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46805/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (8 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 409. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence received from workers at Irish Rail (details supplied) regarding matters pertaining to the CIE superannuation scheme (1951); if he shares the concerns detailed in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question 407 of 29 July 2025, if his officials are involved in developing with NTA, Irish Rail, Louth County Council or any other stakeholders, a business case or proposal of any description for a new train station in North Drogheda (details supplied); if this is not the case will work on this concept be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Sep 2025)

Gerald Nash: 574. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank received any requests from the Israeli authorities to renew that state's bond prospectus prior to the expiry of the 2024 prospectus, which was in place until the 1 September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46806/25]