Results 41-60 of 6,478 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 180. To ask the Minister for Health to request advice from the HSE on a matter (details supplied); if alternative pain management injection administration approaches and related issues will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38016/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: And then you delayed my Bill by 12 months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is exactly what the Government has been doing for the past three years. This is why it is in this difficulty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: Tax cuts to target child poverty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can address a case where a child with a disability (details supplied) is experiencing difficulty accessing school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37409/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (8 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has instructed the successful bidders for NAERSA’s investment management services, in the context of contract negotiations, not to invest in companies and funds supporting companies included in the Database of Business Enterprises Pursuant to UN Human Rights Council Resolutions 31/36 and 53/25; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when physical work will start on the new permanent building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36864/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (3 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when LMETB will start the physical work to develop the new LMETH head office building in Drogheda, as per a decision taken by Government twelve years ago; if approval of a report referred to in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 622 of 23 July 2024, has been sanctioned; the date on when this occurred; if the project has been approved to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (3 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent since 2013 on work connected to the planned new LMETB head office building in Drogheda for each accounting year from 2013 to date in 2025 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36866/25]

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: I will cut to the chase. North Drogheda objectively needs a train station. It should already be in place. I was on Louth County Council more than 20 years ago when we masterplanned the provision of 5,000 new homes. Half of those homes have been or are in the process of being built. These plans included a site for a train station, but then came the crash. Up to half of those homes, as I...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: The failures of care exposed by the media in recent weeks are not just a failure of one private nursing home operator. This is a failure by our State, a failure of public policy, a failure of regulation, and an abject failure to uphold the dignity of those who have no option but to put their care into others' hands. It would be naive of us to think that we have seen is anything other than...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Minister of State is very welcome, as are his officials. I plan to discuss only the REVs under the various headings. My first question relates to the administration budget. This is section IV on operational services, supplies and sundry equipment. I note that, last year, the outturn was €1.335 million. That means this year's Estimate represents a decrease of 34%, which is a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: This is on page 1 of the REVs. It is section IV on the administration side. There is programme expenditure and then the overall administration side. The heading relates to operational services, supplies and sundry equipment. On the current side, last year, it was €1.335 million. It is estimated to be down to €876,000 this year, which is a reduction of 34%. That is a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: Similarly, under that heading - this is section VII, policy reviews, consultancy services and research - there was an allocation of €264,000 last year. It is down to €150,000 this year. That is a 43% decrease. Is that an aberration? Is it normal to spend €264,000 or thereabouts or is €150,000 more normal? What explains that difference year on year?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: Does that relate to the cost of the Deloitte initiative?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: I see. Moving on further down the Vote, under estate management, subhead B5, the purchase of sites and buildings was €3.78 million last year. That is up. The Estimate this year is €13.323 million. What explains the difference there? That is quite a jump in one year.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: I understand that the Minister of State will not be in a position, because of commercial sensitivity, to identify the buildings, but, in general terms, what would the purpose of these buildings be?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Gerald Nash: I understand that.