Results 241-260 of 6,635 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance for the list of those in the media and other stakeholders that receive the Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin in advance of publication; to confirm the rules governing the provision of such reports to media or other stakeholders in advance of publication; how the release of market sensitive information that may be contained in such reports is regulated; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in the context of teacher supply challenges, a date for the implementation of the Teaching Council's proposed creation of a timebound provision within the revised Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2016 (details supplied); if she is aware of the difficulties being caused to some by the continuing delay in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an issue (details supplied) where SNAs moving from part-time roles to permanent staff roles are left without pay for the summer period preceding their first full-time term; if she and her Department have plans to address this anomaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a specific capital support scheme in place to provide financial assistance to schools to maintain and adapt long standing school gymnasia and other sports facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Louth County Council has had to limit access to housing adaptation grants and related schemes; if there are plans to provide additional resources to Louth County Council and other local authorities to meet demand for such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a policy change will be considered to provide the Revenue Commissioners with the power to collect levies under the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 from individuals or businesses with properties on local authority derelict sites registers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of concerns around VAT liabilities in an industry (details supplied); if his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have given any consideration to an approach taken to this matter by the national tax authority in another EU Member State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33270/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Our witnesses are very welcome. I am conscious that Dr. Nuseibah needs to leave the meeting at 5 p.m., so time is of the essence. I am happy to limit my questions on the basis that my colleagues wish to put questions to him before he leaves. I thank him for being here today. I also thank him for the intellectual and legal clarity he has brought to the debate. We did not need moral or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is a nonsense, in my view. The point about the primacy or otherwise of the preamble, paragraph 88, is important because little weight or consideration has been given to that. My own view is that there is an obligation on the Central Bank to do that but it has not. Rather, it selectively quoted its technical responsibilities, if I can put it like that, and its requirement, as it sees...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party will amend the Bill on Committee Stage. I can assure the House that we will not amend it on the basis that we want to see what is a modest charge on properties abolished. It is extraordinary that every time we debate the principle of the property tax in this House there are parties who purport to be on the left in Irish politics which say they oppose it. They oppose it for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Captured by civil servants-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed in underpayments in terms of the pensions of public servants in respect of the NSSO pension issue review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed by the State to public service pensioners arising from the NSSO pension issue review; the sums of money and the numbers involved in the form of bands and at intervals of €5,000; when these monies will be able to be recouped by those affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32321/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report of AHB Strategic Forum has been finalised; if has considered its contents; if he will publish the report and its recommendations; if he will outline the proposed next steps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third-level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on waiting times for under-18s for Orthodontist services in Drogheda and Dundalk and if there are plans in place to reduce waiting times for these services in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 861. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the issues Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients are having getting timey access to a new drug for the condition (details supplied); if immediate steps will be taken to make this drug available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32396/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: I will be sharing time with my colleague Deputy Lawlor. We are in an incredible situation in this country and in the Middle East at present. For the first time, two weeks ago, in response to a Labour Party motion and a Sinn Féin Bill two weeks ago on Israeli bonds, a significant statement was made by senior Government representatives in this House. Finally, a senior Government figure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: In the interests of the expeditious processing of the meeting and our business, I am happy to comply with that. The currently approved prospectus will expire in September. Deputy Brennan raised some questions about the process. While I would have liked to explore them in some more detail, I will limit my questions and observations. Typically, it seems it takes a number of weeks for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Okay. To the best of the Governor's recollection, how long did it take the Central Bank to process the application for the first prospectus from Israel?