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Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will focus on Part 7 of the Bill, which contains provisions on the retirement age of our uniformed services. The Bill will potentially set a concerning precedent, where the retirement age of our uniformed servicemen and women is left to the whim of the relevant Minister of the day without any explicit obligation to consult the workers it impacts or their representative bodies....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to amend the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 and the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 to give effect to commitments made to provide for an increase in the mandatory retirement age to 62 years for uniformed public servants; if the Government plans to apply...

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to have a debate, if we can describe it as such, in this Chamber on a highly significant report from the Commission on Taxation and Welfare. Quite frankly, if the Committee on Budgetary Oversight had not decided to examine the recommendations of the report, which was published in September 2022, I do not believe we would be having a debate in this Chamber at all....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Dereliction is a disease. It is insidious. It destroys communities. Nothing saps the confidence of a town like dilapidated, derelict, dangerous buildings. Vacancy unchecked is the gateway to dereliction. There are nearly 2,000 derelict sites in Ireland, and they are just the ones that have been recorded and have made it onto the derelict sites register. There is an acute situation in my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Derelict sites are the low-hanging fruit in terms of addressing the housing crisis that we have. I know the Tánaiste visited Drogheda briefly during the local and European election campaigns, but he did not walk down a street in Drogheda called Narrow West Street. Had he done so, he would have seen a case study of dereliction and things that can go wrong. He talks about resourcing...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 168. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the difficulty in accessing funding under Action 23 of the National Sports Policy 2018 to 2027 (details supplied); the actions that have been taken by her Department to give practical effect to Action 23 of the 2018 to 2027 National Sports Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27678/24]

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Deputy Michael McGrath on his appointment. I thank him for his service in this House over many years and for his kindness to me when shadowing him as I was the Labour Party opposition spokesperson over the last few years. I congratulate the Deputy but I must also warn him, as the Leader of Sinn Féin did, that this House and the Irish people will not stand by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications in the assistive technology scheme (details supplied); her plans to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the pre-budget submission from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the urgent need to develop a dementia specific counselling service to support family carers and people living with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/24]

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. We in the Labour Party support it wholeheartedly. After a sustained period of record rises, electricity prices are starting to fall but remain at around double what we might term "normal levels". Citizens are really suffering. They are struggling. I have lost count of the number of occasions during the last two years where people have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: In 2021, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, set up a review of the Derelict Sites Act. In my view, the Act is being brought into disrepute on a daily basis. It is a charter for rogue property owners to evade their social responsibilities. Three years on, we are still waiting for the Minister, Deputy O’Brien’s, review to be published. While we wait for that report, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is considering the development of a regional filming strategy, that covers both infrastructure and funding, over a ten-year period to enable the screen industry to be embedded in regions across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the membership of the derelict sites working group; when the report of the group will be published; if he will outline the key changes to the Derelict Sites Act 1990 that the group is recommending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-consultant hospital doctor posts which are currently unfilled at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; the total number of NCHDs at the hospital for the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant clinicians in post at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, broken down by specialism, between the years 2020 and 2024 inclusive; if he will confirm the number of consultant posts at the hospital which are currently unfilled, broken down by specialism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 470. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the rollout of spinal muscular atrophy in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; when he expects the first baby to be tested in Ireland for this potentially devastating disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27121/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 471. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations that his Department and the HSE are making to ensure that every baby in Ireland is tested for spinal muscular atrophy in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme as per his announcement in November 2023; when he expects the testing to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 472. To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €700,000 funding he secured in Budget 2024 to expand the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme will be spent; if he can give assurances that the funding is sufficient to ensure spinal muscular atrophy is included in the heel prick test in 2024 as per his commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27123/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will confirm the number of people on panels in each CHO area concerning home care positions with the HSE; the number of directly employed homecare workers who were appointed by the HSE in each CHO area for 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners to 1 June 2024 for the mortgage interest tax relief scheme on a county-by-county basis; if he will provide details of the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, by county; the cost of the scheme up to 1 June 2024; the average mortgage account balance for successful applicants; the...