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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...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total State funding allocated to the new Bettystown library development in County Meath to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4904/24]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 70: In page 55, to delete lines 29 to 39, to delete page 56, and in page 57, to delete lines 1 to 13 and substitute the following: "Change of employer 38. (1) This section applies to a foreign national to whom a general employment permit has been granted and who wishes to change employment during the period for which the employment permit is in force. (2)If the...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 95: In page 72, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: "(9) In regulations under this section, the Minister may— (a)in relation to different classes of applications and having regard to the amount and complexity of the work involved in considering the applications, provide for— (i)different fees, (ii)exemptions from the payment of fees...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 103: In page 85, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "Atypical Working Scheme for Nurses 58.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a foreign national— (a) has been offered a contract of employment to work as a nurse in the State, and (b) has been given leave to enter the State pursuant to the scheme established by the...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 9: In page 18, to delete lines 19 to 37.

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: In respect of the staff who are currently on €27,000, will they not experience the uplift to €30,000 when the threshold changes?

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: There is no automatic uplift.

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: I support the position articulated by Deputy Barry. I have come across these situations. The first question the Minister of State needs to answer is what the position is, formally, in that regard. We have been reading reports about it but nothing formal has emerged from the Department at this point. There was a recent adjustment regarding the permits, up from €27,000 to...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: In the first instance, I support the remarks made by Deputy Louise O'Reilly. My own concerns and those of the Labour Party are well known and well established and have been articulated on several occasions since the publication of this Bill. While I do not myself have the benefit of being formally a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment I did make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: A fictional budget.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to review her Department's position on allowances for teaching through the medium of Irish; if she intends to reinstate the allowance; if such allowances form a part of her Department’s strategy for increasing the use of the Irish language; and if a response will issue to the concerns of teachers (details supplied). [3769/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (30 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are supports available through her Department to assist second-level schools who are not designated in DEIS categories to develop services and facilities to provide hot meals in their schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3938/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: 449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for his views on correspondence from an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4247/24]