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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship trainees that have had their qualification completion delayed due to Covid-19 pandemic; the supports planned by his Department to assist with catch up for their apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (20 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been made available to higher education institutions to complete mandated consent training for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26780/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the SUSI adjacent distance payment to 50km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26781/21]

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: Cuckoo funds have mutated and the shot that the Minister has administered will not succeed in stopping them in their tracks. The evidence so far suggests that they will be resistant to the new measures he announced last night. I called in recent times for a meaningful hike in stamp duty as one of a series of targeted measures to do what the entire House seems to say it wants to do, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (19 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been allocated for spending on grants and supports and structural funding for blue sky research in higher education institutions in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Strategic Infrastructure (18 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the long-standing proposal to develop the northern port access route north of Drogheda town; if he plans to initiate a specific funding programme for infrastructure of this nature that, if built, would enable road access to planned lands for the development of in excess of 4,000 homes in north...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25546/21]

Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021: First Stage (12 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for greater transparency in relation to charges that may be imposed in the administration of pension schemes, for that purpose to amend the Pensions Act 1990, and to provide for related matters. A pension is often the second most expensive item a person will purchase during his or her working life, after a home,...

Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021: First Stage (12 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. I heard the Taoiseach say this week that the issue of housing is the biggest issue facing young people and I agree with him. It is also the biggest issue facing our society more generally. Precarious housing and precarious work produce precarious lives. Precarious lives destroy communities and wreck social...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Tests (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of plans by his Department and or the agencies under his aegis to roll-out pilot programmes with businesses and in workplaces as a consequence of the report and suggestions by the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group and in respect of the use of rapid antigen testing in workplaces and in other environments; the way in which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 284 to 287 of 28 April 2021, the reason the number of convictions for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 was considerably lower in the period 2016 to 2020 than in the period 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 284 to 287 of 28 April 2021, if he is satisfied that the programme for prosecuting those offences constitutes an effective deterrent to tax evasion and fraud in view of the significantly reduced number of convictions for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act in the period from 2016 to 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Sign Language (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include Irish Sign Language as a school curriculum subject to ensure equality and inclusivity for the considerable proportion of Ireland's population who are deaf, hard of hearing or non-verbal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the LMETB does not have a single head office building as per a Government decision of 2013; if she is concerned that eight years after a decision was made to develop a headquarters building for the LMETB in Drogheda, the project has still not commenced; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that the Drogheda LMETB headquarters project has not formally commenced despite the allocation of funds made by her Department in 2014 under devolved projects for the fully designed project in view of the fact that planning permission was granted for the project in 2016 and in further view of the fact that that her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in February 2017 her Department gave the go ahead to LMETB to issue letters of intent to contractors clearing the way for the Drogheda LMETB headquarters project to commence; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that the devolved section of the building unit of her Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the effective obstacles placed in the way of the commencement of the Drogheda LMETB headquarters project by the ETB in respect of security concerns and subsequently in terms of the size and scale of the planned building since the ETB was instructed in 2017 by her Department to accept the lowest tender for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an instruction to retender the Drogheda LMETB headquarters project given by her Department in June 2018 has not been executed; the clear steps that will be taken by the devolved section of the building unit of her Department to compel compliance with its instruction of June 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24342/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sports Funding (11 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: 619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if investment into sporting clubs (details supplied) is eligible under the immigrant investment programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23645/21]