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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (23 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the development of the new IDA site in Drogheda; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (23 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment as he prepares to address a cross-Border business conference in Dundalk next month, the new supports he will put in place to help businesses in the Dublin to Belfast economic corridor to cope with the continuing challenges of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (23 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is concerned at the cost to students of undertaking degrees in medicine in order to qualify as a doctor; if his attention has been drawn to the impact the removal from the market of a scheme (details supplied) for medicine students has had on access to courses; if his Department is considering any scheme of financial supports for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abuse in Hospitals (23 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department and a third-party’s engagement with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the organisation’s reported efforts to withdraw monies lodged with his Department and the HSE in the 1990s; if he will provide an up-to-date figure on the amount of money currently held by his Department and the...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I agree and in that spirit I will limit my remarks to my amendment on the 9% VAT rate on the hospitality sector, which is being extended yet again. This VAT relief was introduced initially for good reason in 2011, when unemployment in this country was in danger of heading towards 20%. It was a very important measure introduced in 2011 to try to encourage a sector that we believed could...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: Many of us warned from the get-go that there were design difficulties with the TBESS. We did not believe that all of the businesses would end up drawing money down from it. Unfortunately and sadly, that has proven to be the case. I take no pleasure in saying that. Ultimately, the objectives of the scheme were to ensure businesses could continue to operate at an unprecedentedly difficult...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in favour of the legislation that is being presented by People Before Profit-Solidarity. I extend my gratitude to that party for taking the time to develop legislation in a meaningful way in an effort to address this long-running challenge. The Opposition's concern about the cliff edge we will experience at the end of March - and that is what it...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

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Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: The infrastructure is being funded by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, which is funded by the taxpayer. That is an important point to note. The development, although late, is, of course, welcome. The point I am making about the northern port access route is that it will lead to the development of 5,000 additional homes on the north side of Drogheda. Those homes are desperately...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: The witnesses are welcome to the replay. I apologise that I did not tog out the last time, but I communicated by apologies to Dr. O'Donnell and Mr. Gibbons, individually. We are here now. This is a useful exercise and engagement. The first point I will make about the Commission on Taxation and Welfare report is that Government has had two significant tests since the publication of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I apologise for interrupting. Today's CSO data in the survey on income and living conditions, SILC, were interesting. They show exactly that: deprivation levels are rising. Government may argue those data are from before the introduction of the measures it brought in towards the latter end of last year and do not reflect them. That may very well be the case but, nonetheless, they are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: The simplest and most straightforward thing to do - we should all have a collective understanding of this - if we are to address questions around income adequacy and are determined to address issues around deprivation, is through increases in the core rates of social welfare, which match or beat inflation. The Government decided not to do that and took a different approach. I am attracted...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 243. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to review the income thresholds for the medical card scheme in view of the increased cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9238/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Strategy Group (21 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to review the 41% exit tax charged on exchange-traded funds, as reported in the media; if he will ask the Tax Strategy Group to undertake such an assessment ahead of budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8390/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (21 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recommendations from the independent review of the distribution and utilisation of lottery funding carried out by an organisation (details supplied) and published in December 2022 that he intends to act on; if he will provide a timeline for implementation of those recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: We should all be more concerned about people who are on the breadline and people who require this money. I understand the position the Minister has on double payments. A large organisation like the HSE, with the best will in the world, can often make overpayments to staff. Those payments are recouped quite quickly and we have all dealt with cases like that in the past. My concern would be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: We are seeking an update on the roll-out of the pandemic recognition payment to front-line workers who are not directly employed by the HSE. Hardly a day goes by when I do not receive an email or phone call from an agency nurse or a contract security guard who may have worked throughout the pandemic in an acute hospital setting but has yet to receive the payment. I seek a status update on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: We have been told time and again that payments were imminent. This is beyond frustrating. For a contract security guard working in a hospital, for example, it could amount to almost two weeks' wages. We are only too well aware of the cost-of-living pressures being experienced, especially by those on low pay. This has been a frustrating process from start to finish. It has been about two...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Social Democrats for this timely motion. As my party colleague and party leader, Deputy Bacik, said, the Labour Party brought a motion to the floor of this House in January 2022, more than 12 months ago, demanding action on what was then a cost-of-living challenge, which very quickly became a cost-of-living crisis. The Minister of State will recall that motion was tabled a month...