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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that she has to increase spaces on buses available for school transport in County Louth arising from the additional funding allocated in Budget 2023; if she will provide a firm date as to when the additional provision will come on stream; the number of additional places that will be made available in County Louth; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport appeal case will be determined for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56889/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 59: In page 91, to delete lines 5 to 7, inclusive, and substitute the following: “44. (1) Section 46 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)(caa), by the substitution of “28 February 2023” for “31 October 2022”. (2) The Minister shall, before 14 February 2023, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response and there is some logic to what he is saying. The suggestion is that many measures, and the position more generally, will be examined in the spring because it is inevitable that this will have to be the case. When the once-off measures wear off at the end of this year and we strip them away, we will see that budget 2023 proper will not have the kind of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will withdraw my amendment but I may reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 12, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 118 of Principal Act (benefit-in-kind: relief for bicycles) 8. 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...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I may reintroduce both amendments on Report Stage to have them interrogated further. On amendment No. 7, I am not fixated on using the cycle to work scheme to provide supports and incentives for families to obtain bikes. The principle of the issue should be examined further. As a society, we want to introduce young people to bikes. Those of us who adopt a love of cycling when we are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is somewhat disappointing. We are all familiar with the health relief system and it is something that has worked over the years but we have seen the evolution of the health system and the growth of allied health professionals. If this could be viewed in the context of prevention and wellness more generally, it would be a good investment for the State to include psychotherapists and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on benefit-in-kind: cycle to school 8. 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...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 8: In page 14, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 469 of Principal Act (relief for health expenses) 10.Section 469 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1), in the definition of “practitioner”, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “(aa) registered in a register...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Voluntary Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Dáil Éireann passing a motion on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 in support of pay increases for community and voluntary sector workers, the action he or his Department has taken to deliver on the commitments listed in the motion; if he intends to provide for a standing forum and mechanism for collective bargaining on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of projects under way by the OPW to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings it manages and owns; the budget for such works in 2022; the projected budget for 2023; the square meters of building space that will be retrofitted this year; the role the OPW has in delivering on climate mitigation and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in publishing the report on the review of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, which was scheduled for early in quarter 3 of 2022, according to the roadmap; if he has received the review report and recommendations yet; when he intends to publish it; if he will be bringing forward changes to the law; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on when the review of ethics legislation will be published; if he will confirm that ten submissions were received by the closure date of the public consultation in mid-January 2022; if those submissions have now all been considered; if he has considered the findings of the review yet; when he intends to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the land, properties or buildings the OPW or his Department have made available in 2022 for housing or accommodation for Ukrainian refugees or those seeking international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider developing, with the ETBs and other statutory education bodies, networks of remote study hubs in regional towns in which there is no third level institution footprint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 551. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will provide services to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56402/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That would be appreciated. It is something we intend to raise in the context of the Finance Bill and probably more appropriately, the social welfare Bill. Our own analysis, which has been confirmed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, shows that in terms of the national minimum wage, a worst-case scenario could see many full-time workers on the minimum wage lose more than 30% of the 80 cent...