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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Yes, that was back in 2015.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the 9% reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills to 31 December 2023; if he will provide costings for extension of the measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and look forward to engaging with him in his position as Minister for Finance. I also extend my congratulations to the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, on her appointment and look forward to working with her. I want to establish with the Minister the cost to the Exchequer of extending the reduced 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I believe that because of the arguably short-term thinking of the Government, once the €4 billion in once-off measures melted away in January, families started to feel the pinch. We know that the families who are most exposed to energy poverty are those on low incomes, lone parents, older people living alone and people who are living in rural areas. The final electricity credit will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: We have a cost-of-living crisis and inflation is high. One of the perverse things is that when inflation is high and goods and services are more expensive, the Exchequer is laughing all the way to the bank with increased VAT returns. It is important to reflect on that and to pass back as much as possible of that increase, or bonanza, to those who need it most by way of an extension of...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: There is a donation of service and there is a commercial value to be placed on that. That is a matter that will be determined in time by the Standards in Public Office Commission. I hope it does its work expeditiously. I maintain it is a fiction that this donation of a service that has a commercial value, which is a donation, was given to Fine Gael Dublin Central, because that would...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Of course, the commercial value is not the value that Mr. Stone or the Minister would ascribe to the service the Minister describes and what he wants it to be but, rather, what it would cost him on the open market to obtain that particular service. We would prefer if we were here today talking about housing and health, for example, the issues that affect everybody's everyday lives and go to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of those with company cars over the financial impact of changes to the benefit-in-kind regime which came into force this month; if he is considering measures to assist such workers to mitigate the additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of a report (details supplied) detailing that Ireland’s richest 1% control a quarter of the country’s wealth, he will review the Government’s approach to taxes on wealth as suggested in the Labour Party’s alternative budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned about the impact on households of the increased costs of servicing mortgages on homes as a result of rising interest rates; if he is considering any policy interventions to assist mortgage-holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if young refugee students from Ukraine who are due to sit State examinations in 2023 and 2024 and will soon be making CAO applications and seeking SUSI support students will be treated as EU or Ukrainian citizens in the calculation of their college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2914/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish third level institutions will be able to admit refugee students from Ukraine who are resident in Ireland, engaged in distance learning with a Ukrainian institution and with credit for modules already completed in a comparable course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2915/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total additional cost to the Exchequer in 2022 of the inflation co-operation framework in respect of the delivery of projects under public works projects; if the framework will be reviewed in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2206/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I raise the operation of the inflation co-operation framework, an important innovation introduced by Government last year to assist contractors carrying out NDP projects and, more generally, capital projects with rising inflation in terms of energy and materials. Will the Minister of State give an update on the additional cost of that and if the framework will be reviewed in 2023?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Does the Minister of State have a figure for the additional cost across government given the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has been renamed the Department for the delivery of the NDP, as well as having special responsibility in that regard? What is the additional cost, outside of what was agreed? The responsibility lies 70:30 in favour of the State. It is important to put on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I find it extraordinary that neither the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Office of Government Procurement is collating those figures centrally. It would be an important public policy measure that the Department would collate all the figures from the relevant agencies and spending Departments, at least to inform a review of the operation of the framework in 2023. This is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Freedom of Information (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: In the open review and the general review after that there were a total of about 2,400 responses received. That is an indication of the public interest in freedom of information, FOI, legislation and greater moves towards transparency. The Minister will accept that the FOI system needs to be modernised. Would he agree as well that the default position of Government Departments and agencies...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Freedom of Information (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Minister is right that the deliberative process is important but far too often we see peculiar responses coming from Government Departments where they are hiding behind the deliberative process and where there is no reason in this wide world why they should not be more open. It depends on the particular request made but there is far too liberal use of the black marker and there are some...