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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Jan 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 874: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has conserved a series of works either on board or mural executed by a person (details supplied) and the measures it has taken to ensure their ongoing conservation and public display. [41139/11]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (15 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance if he directly requested the board and management of the EBS to withhold payment of the annual staff Christmas bonus; if he will set out the reasons behind this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40410/11]

Written Answers — Social Inclusion: Social Inclusion (15 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish and present the Annual Social Inclusion Report for 2009 and 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40413/11]

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: Let us hear what the Minister is saying.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: We all agree that stability in the euro area is vital to Irish economic and social interests. The insidious instability we have witnessed in the past two to three years, compounded by gross inaction and a slow creep from one crisis to the next, is politically very destabilising and socially damaging. There has been an excessive focus on the primacy of the markets, to the detriment of any...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: We have some experienced negotiators in this House with some successes to their name. They know that one does not show one's hand in advance of negotiations. There is an insinuation that a treaty has been agreed before the summit has taken place but that could not be further from the truth. I have every confidence in the Irish Government and smaller states to work in partnership to achieve...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: What did the Deputy's party do to the country's past?

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Gerald Nash: It has done that. The Deputy should check the statement.

Health Service Allowances (30 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: The Minister of State is aware that public servants have been bashed in this House in recent years. When a major public sector entity like the HSE picks the pockets of its own staff, in effect, it is clear that a new low has been reached. If the HSE has its way, those providing home help services, public health nurses, social workers and others who assist the most vulnerable sectors of the...

Health Service Allowances (30 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: This case illustrates the dysfunctional nature of the HSE. We have heard commitments from the Minister regarding transformational reforms of the organisation. Dare I say it, we must be careful with what we replace it. It is worrying that the Accounting Officers and the executive's board were not aware of this treatment of its own staff in HSE West when dealing with a budgetary shortfall....

Written Answers — Special Economic Zones: Special Economic Zones (29 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his UK and Northern Ireland counterparts have given consideration to the establishment of a special economic zone comprising the Dundalk and Newry areas; if he will provide his views on such an initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37200/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the oral hearing on an appeal will be held in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36990/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on the appeal against a claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36991/11]

Written Answers — Helpline Numbers: Helpline Numbers (29 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made to date in implementing the European Commission's designated 116 123 number for persons in distress; if plans for its implementation are on track to enable the number to become operational by early 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37618/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (24 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the implementation of further measures announced in budget 2010 with respect to the treatment of non-residents for tax purposes; the revenue that has been raised from these measures to date; the amount of revenue he expects these measures to yield; the number of non-residents for tax purposes that these measures have...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount in redundancy rebates due to be paid out in 2011 in respect of enterprises which have closed down Irish operations and relocated to other countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36880/11]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amounts of money paid out under the redundancy rebate programme in respect of the social insurance fund to two companies (details supplied) which have closed down their Irish operations and have relocated elsewhere; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36881/11]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (23 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details on the amount spent by him on the public service decentralisation programme since the announcement of the plans in December 2003; if he will provide details in respect of the locations to which his Department and relevant agencies have relocated either in part or in full; the number of positions...

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Gerald Nash: Local authorities are starved of funding. The funding they do receive is so dependent on the commercial rates system and development levies that the funding model is completely unsustainable. The "significant contribution", as the motion puts it, made by business owners to the operation of local authorities is so significant because that is how the previous Administration determined it...