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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on any work his Department has undertaken to advance the recommendations contained in the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's report on capital taxes; if he agrees that the balance between income and capital taxes needs to change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43053/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the low number of individuals who pay the domicile levy; if he has any plans to reform the levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43054/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Archaeological Sites (5 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his view on a matter raised in relation to Newgrange and related matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 320. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if an employer (details supplied) was approved for the pandemic recognition payment; if so, whether payment has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43193/23]

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: We can set our watches and mark our calendars to predict this issue. It arises every July and August in my constituency. It is predictable but also solvable if the will is there to modernise, update and reform a system that owes more to the 1970s and 1980s that it does to a modern republic. Largely thanks to the work of one of the Minister's predecessors and our former colleague,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: There is no process.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance when he hopes to commence the provisions in the 2022 Finance Act in relation to the key employee engagement programme; the nature of any conversations he is having with the European Commission on this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42246/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2024 (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing the pension fund threshold from €2 million to €2.4 million; if he is considering any adjustments to the threshold for Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Bank plans to introduce a regulatory regime to govern the independent operators of ATMs, as recommended by the Retail Banking Review; if his Department has raised this issue with the Central Bank in 2023; if he is concerned at reports that the operators may consider introducing charges on transactions prior to any new regulatory framework;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has succeeded in recruiting a psychiatrist with responsibility for treating and supporting children with autism or intellectual disabilities in the Louth and Meath area at any point in 2023; if so, if the person in question is still in post; if not, when the specialist in question stood down, and for what reasons; how many children the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence mailed to his office (details supplied) on a policy matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42715/23]

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: We may not use the entirety of our ten minutes but let us see where the journey takes us. I note the Minister of State's remarks in respect of the Government having greater ambition than is laid out in this legislation. I would take issue with that. There is no doubt that developments in respect of the directive have, in some respects, overtaken the ambition of our own legislation. If the...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to speak on the Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021 in the names of my colleagues Deputies Ó Ríordáin and Sherlock. I am sharing time with Deputy Sherlock. This is Ireland’s first legislation on regulating corporate activity in respect of labour exploitation and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am glad that at the latter end of his contribution the Minister, Deputy McGrath, mentioned corporate profitability and how that is in fact contributing to the high-inflation environment we are experiencing at the moment and, to be fair, the actions the Government has taken to the cap on market revenues in terms of energy companies. The Minister says he is happy to discuss this. I am...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Will that go to reduce standing charges on bills, for example? Is that the idea?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Okay, to reduce tariffs.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: Okay, that is interesting. I will go back to a point made by both Ministers in response to remarks made earlier by Deputy Boyd Barrett. There is no doubt that the simulating welfare, income tax, childcare and health policies, SWITCH, model analysis produced alongside budget 2023 stated clearly that the budget, on an overall basis, was progressive. That was a certain interpretation of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: They were welcomed, yes.