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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: We in Labour are opposed to this provision too for a range of different reasons. On budget night, indeed, accepting that this would go ahead, we did seek to introduce amendments to the resolutions that evening to at least establish a condition and connect the condition to these measures to provide for affordability, at least as a driver or a condition if these measures were to go ahead....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: They are all grouped. It would be useful to have the Minister respond on the point Deputy Farrell made before I make an intervention.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: My amendment is amendment No. 44. In many ways, it is in honour of our colleague-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is. In many ways, it is in honour of our colleague, Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, who we referenced offline earlier on. It is great to see him back. For many years, I have been introducing amendments connected to some of the issues raised consistently by Deputy Boyd Barrett. My amendment is in respect of the section 481 film relief that has been broadened and deepened in recent years to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 52: In page 65, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Amendment of Film Regulations 2019 44. The Film Regulations 2019 (S.I No. 119 of 2019) made by the Revenue Commisioners under section 481 of the Principal Act are amended by the insertion of the following after Regulation 3(4): (5) In this Regulation quality employment means...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: The point I wanted to make has mostly been covered by Deputy Doherty. I will make a couple of related points on this amendment and will then speak more generally on the section. The Minister indicated that he may want to nuance a potential amendment on Report Stage and that he would be engaging with stakeholders ahead of that. Which stakeholders will he be engaging with to finesse the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I wish to elaborate a little on what Deputy O'Callaghan said. I am certainly confused as to how this applies to mixed-use developments where there may be various types of residences on the site that are directly connected with the apartments. Deputy O’Callaghan described duplexes with other kinds of arrangements attached to that building. Very commonly, in all of our constituencies,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: No.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: This is just plain stupid. It makes no economic sense whatsoever. We are paying the price now for a stupid promise made by the Tánaiste on the campaign trail this time last year. There is no economic case whatsoever for this. Working people around the country are going to pay the price for it. I am not even persuaded that the Minister for Finance is on board with this. Clearly,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: What happens with these kinds of interventions is that sectors become dependent on them and do not innovate or reform. I am actually surprised that a party that describes itself as pro-business would propose an initiative like this. I was astounded to hear about it this last year from the Tánaiste and that he persisted with it. It needs interrogation. I will be very interested in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 69: In page 92, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “Amendment of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to Principal Act (Medical and other services) 74. Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended, in Part 1, in paragraph 2, by the insertion of the following sub-paragraph after sub-paragraph (3): ‘(3A) Professional services supplied by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister. I intend to pursue it myself as it is not clear to me why that is the case and why the register has not opened yet under the aegis of CORU. It is something we all want to see happen. Far be it from me to put words in the Minister's mouth and anticipate what might happen in future finance Bills but clearly the door may very well be open in the future, once these...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 72 is very similar to Deputy Currie's amendment No. 70. It seeks a report on the potential benefits of reducing the current VAT rate on short-term bike hire. The benefits of which would be obvious, so I do not intend to labour the point.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is a useful way to prompt an important discussion about the position of the craft sector in our economy. Unfortunately, we do not always look at economic value in the craft sector. The Design and Crafts Council Ireland is an important organisation but, to the best of my recollection, it is not on a statutory basis. It has a relationship with Enterprise Ireland and the local enterprise...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 72: In page 92, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Report of VAT on Short-Term Bike Hire 75. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before Dáil Éireann on the potential benefits of reducing the current VAT rate on short-term bike hire.”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: Would the Government take any responsibility for what the Minister described as the unnecessary processes that have developed over time? We hear a lot of analysis of this and finally the Government appears to be cottoning on to the fact we have a real problem with delivery. We have been saying it in opposition for years - I try to be constructive and put forward alternative proposals for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reforms he plans to introduce to improve the delivery of infrastructure and capital development outlined in the revised national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60445/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: We have been reading a lot of significant information in the media in recent days and weeks about plans the Minister appears to have to improve the delivery of infrastructure and capital development in the context of the revised national development plan, NDP. Will he elaborate precisely on what those plans are and how he plans to implement them?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: This is all well and good and we have been reading a lot about this since the revised national development plan was published. We will see updates on specific projects shortly. Will there be timelines for those projects? Looking beyond the abstract, what will it mean for people? For example, will the package of proposals that the Minister wants implemented shorten the timeframe for the...

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Gerald Nash: My colleague and Labour MEP for Dublin, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, has led the charge - as has rightly been said - on this issue in Ireland for a number of years now and he is continuing to lead the way in Europe. The most obvious example to follow in a European context is that of Portugal. One thing is crystal clear from the Portuguese example, that is, moving to a...