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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of any engagement between his Department and other Government Departments on the question of short-time work supports in the context of the announcement by President Trump of new tariffs on EU goods on 2 April; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18270/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has decided to review supports for workers who are put on short-time work in the context of the impact on workers and businesses of the tariffs announced by the US President on 2 April; if he will consider introducing a scheme similar to the German Kurzarbeit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: Trump’s trade tantrum is having a real world impact, just one week after that bizarre event in the White House Rose Garden where an American President held up what looked like a bookmaker’s betting board as he gambled away the world economy in service of his own ego. It is quite bizarre that the country that has done the most to design the current global world economic order is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to ensure that school secretaries employed by boards of management receive equivalent pensions, leave entitlements and the equivalent benefits and conditions enjoyed by her Department or ETB-employed school secretaries/administrators; her views on whether this is an inequity and anomaly that is required to be addressed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance what avenues are open for borrowers with ongoing legal or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman cases against the IBRC and its predecessor institutions, after the planned winding-down on 1 June 2025, given IBRC’s special liquidation status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17322/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 362. To ask the Minister for Finance in cases where borrowers have new evidence to present to the regulator or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to support ongoing cases against IBRC and its predecessor institutions, whether there will be legal avenues open to continue to pursue such cases after the winding down on 1 June 2025, given IBRC’s special liquidation status; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 363. To ask the Minister for Finance if independent audits have been conducted into the IBRC’s mortgage loan book to determine the extent of any current cases with the Central Bank or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman alleging reckless lending or misconduct and where those cases have yet to be adjudicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 364. To ask the Minister for Finance how he will satisfy himself that the IBRC has fully complied with all of its legal and regulatory obligations before its planned closure on 1 June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; if she will ensure that the recommendation made by a Louth-based SNA to provide additional resources to a school in Drogheda, which has been declined, will be honoured (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17374/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the proposed revised ethics legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16243/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: Will the Minister provide with an update on the Government's plans, as contained in the programme for Government, for updated ethics legislation. He will be well aware that we have been waiting a number of years to see the enactment of legislation that was committed to in the 2020 programme for Government. In fact, it first took draft legislative form in Brendan Howlin's public sector...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I hope the Minister will agree that the standard for this legislation, for want of a better description, was set in the 2015 legislation developed by Brendan Howlin, my then colleague and one of the Minister's predecessors. It has been a considerable number of years since the commitment was made. We have had three Governments since the 2015 legislation was introduced. We have had the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: There was a commitment in the previous programme for Government. The Deputy spent time as Minister for public expenditure and reform in that-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Minister has clarified that. I am happy to accept that. I hope then he will bring some renewed vigour, if I can describe it as such, to this particular process. This is fundamental. Parliamentary democracy is a fragile flower. We have seen across the world how bad actors can exploit situations of corruption or perceived corruption. The consequences of that are happening across the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review CAT inheritance tax thresholds and arrangements for couples who have no children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact the imposition of tariffs by the United States will have on jobs, the economy and the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the impact of US tariffs on the public finances; the preparations he is making to secure the public finances in regard to the potential impact of tariffs on the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16459/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I am ill-prepared. I have an amendment to move but I assume it will be taken at a later point.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1: In paragraph (1), to delete "31 October 2025" and substitute "31 December 2025". I thank the Minister of State for introducing this measure. We in the Labour Party anticipated last October that we might be in this position at this point in time. The Minister of State was not in her current role then but she may recall that on budget night, when the financial...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is fair enough. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.