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Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I again want to raise with the Minister the need for a Covid-19 testing centre and vaccination centre in Drogheda. The Minister knows the incidence rates in Drogheda are again the highest in the State. One in 40 have tested positive and it is one in 20 if we take a 28-day perspective, yet there is still no testing centre in Drogheda - no permanent centre and no pop-up facility. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 707. To ask the Minister for Health if a site (details supplied) is in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 708. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 27 January, the status of plans by the HSE to provide a new base for the ambulance service in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57632/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 709. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to provide a facility in Drogheda, County Louth to ensure the swift roll-out of the Covid-19 booster shots to the population in Drogheda, south Louth and east Meath; when such a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 710. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a permanent Covid-19 testing centre in Drogheda, County Louth, given the high rate of infection in the community and the fact that the area frequently features in the list of areas affected by higher than average rates of infection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57634/21]

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am very pleased to speak on this very progressive Bill. I acknowledge the lead role played by our colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, in its genesis, in addition to the work Deputy Bacik has done on it to date. As we know, climate change is the single most important challenge of our time. It is existential and beyond urgent, though one wonders if that reality has dawned on many of those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application will be submitted to Meath County Council for the planned permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to formally include schools (details supplied) as DEIS band one schools in the context of the recent review by her Department of the DEIS scheme; the timeline for the implementation of the recommendations of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56333/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: With respect, that reply is the kind of “blah, blah, blah” that Greta Thunberg has accused others of. We must be more precise and how we describe this. I am interested in establishing exactly what kind of metrics the Minister’s Department is going to apply in respect of approving those projects that will be significant in allowing us to meet our carbon reduction and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide information on planned changes to the public spending code against which proposals from Departments and State agencies will be appraised in respect of the need to comply with the aims of the climate action plan and sectoral carbon budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54955/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: We cannot legally meet the binding targets of net zero unless we radically change how we do things. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is the parent Department for the national development plan, which he has stated will see us spending an additional €116 billion over the next ten years, during its lifetime, on major infrastructural projects. The legal, moral and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: When will that work conclude? This is critical. I am not sure the Minister and everybody in his Department, or indeed the Minister for Finance and his Department, understand the absolute centrality of their Departments in meeting our climate change ambitions. The Minister mentioned that the reference cost of carbon will have to change again if we are to align the national development plan...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much. The points and all of the issues made by Deputy Sherlock, as we know, predate the pandemic. I join with colleagues in commending the work of the ambulance service before the pandemic and the sterling work that they have done throughout the pandemic, particularly in the visits that they have made to the house-bound, together with the sensitive way...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide more access to remote working within the public sector; the status of negotiations with trade unions regarding the development of an agreed framework on remote working in the civil and public service into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish legislation to amend the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54953/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategies (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 122. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the well-being framework and dashboard; his plans to include the distribution of both pre-tax and post-tax income and wealth and Gini coefficient within the income and wealth dimension of the proposed well-being dashboard; and his plans to include measures for the security of employment, trade union density and collective bargaining coverage and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections that the Health and Safety Authority has carried out in hospitality-related businesses, such as, pubs, restaurants, cafés, hotels and nightclubs since 22 October 2021 in order to monitor and enforce compliance with the requirement for EU digital Covid certificates to be presented and checked, by...