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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 1367. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the additional units being built at St. Mary's hospital, Drogheda; when the units will come into operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48807/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: This point is related to Deputy Doherty's amendment. It has been what I would describe as the convention since the Low Pay Commission was established that where adjustments would be required to the lower rate of the USC and to employees PRSI, they would be made on an annual basis to take account of national minimum wage increases and increases to the hourly rate. This is based on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: On potential adjustments to the USC on the minimum wage, what work is going on in the Department on that? I am assuming some work is going on in that regard because we know the pathway to a living wage has been accepted by Government this year arising from the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 118 of Principal Act (benefit-in-kind: relief for bicycles) 3.Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5G): “(5GA) Where expenses incurred in, or in connection with, the provision of a bicycle or bicycle...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: That is unfortunate. I will just speak to amendment No. 4 again. For most reliefs of this nature, when we look at benefit in kind, by definition there is a presumption of an employee-employer relationship. I will note that the rent tax credit for a student can be claimed by parents. The Minister is making provision for that. The same principle should apply to his consideration of this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on benefit-in-kind: cycle to school 3. The Minster shall, within six months after the passing of this Act, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the design and cost of a scheme of exemption from a charge to tax on expenses incurred in the purchase of bicycles or bicycle...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: We are on the question of PAYE assessments and refunds and release more broadly. The Minister announced on budget day that he and the Revenue Commissioners intend to roll out a public campaign to inform people of their entitlements. I know from a reply to a parliamentary question I received from him last week that there are several hundred thousand tax units or individuals who have yet to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will not be surprised to hear my concerns about the help-to-buy scheme articulated again. Since it was introduced in 2016 or 2017, it has cost the Exchequer close to €700 million. The Labour Party and others in opposition are of the view that there are better ways to spend limited public resources to ensure people are housed appropriately. I have said time and again...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: We are used to the Government of the day, whatever the colour of that Government is, describing itself as a responsible policymaker. In this case, it is the Opposition that is the responsible policymaker, because this policy is bananas from a public policy point of view. By the time this scheme is wound down, and it certainly will not be wound down between now and the general election...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely. It is common practice, but that does not make it right. For the Minister to say he is concerned about certainty suggests that we should be undertaking work to design the kind of scheme referred to earlier or the kinds of schemes which Mazars and others might have in mind that would appropriately address the problem. This is not appropriately addressing the problem; it is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 5: In page 15, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "Tax credits, etc.: report on cost of indexation 10.The Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform shall include in their Summer Economic Statement in each year a report setting out the estimated cost to the Exchequer of adjusting— (a) tax rate bands and tax credits...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 13: In page 24, lines 3 and 4, to delete all words from and including “the” where it firstly occurs in line 3 down to and including line 4 and substitute the following: “the Revenue Commissioners shall— (a) maintain and publish on their website a current list of the names and addresses of charities having CHY numbers, and (b) in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am happy to withdraw the amendment and might table it again on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 14: In page 25, lines 6 to 8, to delete all words from and including “the” where it firstly occurs in line 6 down to and including line 8 and substitute the following: “the Revenue Commissioners shall maintain and publish on their website a current list of the names, counties and games and sports exemption numbers of the bodies of persons that are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party opposes this section and the initiative involved on the basis of the basic rule of thumb that a landlord should not pay less tax on his or her passive income or investment than a PAYE worker on his or her income. I do not believe the policy is sustainable, as has been said before, including by me. Assistant professor of economics Barra Roantree, who works in Trinity...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am sorry for being late for this element of the debate. I am conscious that I did not hear all the contributions but I imagine they were framed around the experience over countless years of debating, here and elsewhere, this particular proposition. In discussions about how we tax wealth, I am always intrigued, not by the division between left and right but by the divisions within the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: I know we are up against the clock. We will not conclude discussion of these amendments this evening. The Committee on Budgetary Oversight has spent an enormous amount of time discussing and debating these really important issues. It goes back to the basic principle of no cash without conditions, something we are very bad at implementing and enforcing in this country. I absolutely agree...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Estimates Publication (26 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will publish the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47188/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Estimates Publication (26 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: My apologies to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and to the House for my late arrival, and to the Ministers and my colleagues. This was unavoidable. When will the Minister published the Revised Estimates with specific reference to the health Estimate and what will the Minister's planned Supplementary Estimate for health be for this year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Estimates Publication (26 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: I think we can assume the Supplementary Estimate will be very significant indeed based on the information that is in the public domain at present. I think everybody in this House, or at least a very significant number of Deputies in this House, and indeed experts would be of the view that the Minister must re-examine the planned expenditure in health for next year. That is very clear....