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

Gerald Nash: ...such expenses are exempt if incurred again within four years, where they were incurred in order to replace a bicycle or bicycle safety equipment that was stolen.”.”. Amendment No. 6 relates to the cycle to work tax scheme. The Minister will be aware that an employee can only use that scheme once every four years. I have come across cases where bikes have been stolen,...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of introducing a cycle to school scheme based on the cycle to work scheme in which a parent can claim back the cost of one bicycle per child through their salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to reform and extend the cycle to work scheme to include those on social welfare benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 329. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the cycle to work scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the cost of the scheme in each of the years; the number of persons who accessed the maximum amount of tax relief in each of those years; the average tax relief in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39878/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycling Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 360. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of introducing a cycle to school scheme based on the cycle to work scheme by which a parent can claim back the cost of one bicycle per child through their salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39918/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the cycle to work scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the cost of the scheme in each of the years; the number of persons who accessed the maximum amount of tax relief in each of those years; the average tax relief in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the increase in the amount of tax relief available under the cycle to work scheme to €1,500 for pedelecs and ebikes and €1,250 for all other bicycles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22936/20]

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: .... What we really needed was investment in public and affordable housing to be fast-tracked, which would also have created badly needed jobs in construction. I will briefly touch upon the bizarre increase in the cycle-to-work scheme, a sop to ABC1 greens. There is no economic rationale whatsoever for the increased limits proposed in the Bill, especially at this time. As a brief from the...