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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: That is essentially what the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, said to me last week. It seems to me that the only thing standing in the way of including Drogheda in the living city scheme is politics. We meet the criteria for the scheme, which the Minister of State set out. We manifest levels of vacancy and dereliction and higher than average levels of unemployment and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I love my home town of Drogheda. Our small city is really in my DNA and defines me. We have had and still have our problems. Every place does. We always overcome them. We often do so in spite of and not because of Government support. Increasingly, we have had to rely on ourselves to address the problems this Government patently ignores. To give an example, to tackle the social and...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: Labour fully supports the motion for several reasons. With the increases in fuel duty brought in on 1 April and those planned in August and October, the Government is wilfully piling straws on a straining camel's back as working people in this country continue to struggle with the cost of living. The wording of the motion gets it right: "the Government chose to increase the price of petrol...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to clarify a policy matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18940/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ports Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the leadership of the Drogheda Port Company (details supplied) further to correspondence he received on 12 April 2024; his position on the points raised in that correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the High Court judgment issued on 19 April in a case (details supplied); if he will now make the necessary arrangements to approve an increase in the pension payments to CIÉ pensioners who are members of the ‘1951 scheme’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance the background to and current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 24 April 2024 that it was sending Ireland a letter of formal notice (INFR(2024)2037) for the incorrect transposition of Directive (EU) 2018/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 278. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of and the current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 20 September 2022 that it was sending Ireland a formal notice (INFR(2022)0369) in respect of Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19498/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 279. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of and current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 26 January 2023 that it was sending Ireland a reasoned opinion (INFR(2018)2235) for the non-conformity of Irish legislation with Directive 2014/67/EU on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to update and modernise wind turbine setback guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 654. To ask the Minister for Health the membership of the reference group of stakeholders that will help inform the work of the Commission on Care for Older People; how persons and interested service providers and representative bodies will feed into the work of the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18895/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 666. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE's CHO8 intends to provide any financial support to an organisation (details supplied) to deliver important supports in the community in the administrative area for those who have experienced heart events or stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a serious issue at a school in Omeath, County Louth (details supplied) that has seen its allocation of special education teaching hours cut for the second year running, putting enormous strain on the school’s staff and putting the provision of the SET teaching support needed at the school, greatly at risk; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 7. To ask the Taoiseach for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; and if the Department used/uses an agency to place advertising. [18400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; if the Department used/uses an agency to place advertising; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; if the Department used/uses an agency to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 18. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; if the Department used/uses an agency to place advertising; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; if the Department used/uses an agency to place advertising;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance for figures on the total spend for all forms of advertising in the years 2022 and 2023 in his Department; if figures can be provided on each Department’s spend on local media advertising (print and broadcast respectively, and broken down on that basis) for those years; if the Department used/uses an agency to place advertising; and if he will make a...