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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: I am assuming a proposer and seconder is required at least.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Chair for her guidance.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an assessment of needs will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1007. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no permanent psychiatry expertise or consultants available on a 24-7 basis to address emergency psychiatry admissions of patients under 18 years at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and to treat patients under 18 years in crisis who are referred by their GP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1008. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an appointment with CAMHS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23248/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Minister also failed to understand and accept that there has always been churn in the retail and hospitality sectors. There were enormous net job gains in the retail and hospitality sectors in recent years, sectors which, quite rightly, were protected during the pandemic but which have continued to be protected with significant subsidies that have no conditions whatsoever attached to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: I hope the House will join me in wishing all working people across the country a happy May Day. However, delaying the living wage is no way to mark International Workers' Day. It has been 25 years since the minimum wage was introduced and ten years since the Low Pay Commission, which I established, made its first annual recommendation on an appropriate rate for the national minimum wage....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Speaking earlier on the radio, the Minister said he makes decisions based on evidence. There is no evidence anywhere in the world to suggest that modest incremental increases to rates of national minimum wages impact employment rates or competitiveness. The Minister talks a lot about competitiveness but by delaying the introduction of the living wage, he is owning up to the problems the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disability Services (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that Ireland’s entire public transport fleet is accessible to people with disabilities and in particular, wheelchair users given that Ireland ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2018; the timeline for the completion of that process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to review or increase the income limits for social housing in the Louth and Meath local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21820/25]

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I will focus my comments on the recruitment and allocation of SNAs. I recently submitted a parliamentary question on behalf of a local school in my hometown of Drogheda. Despite a clear recommendation from the local special educational needs organiser, SENO, to increase its SNA allocation, new posts were denied. That is because of some invisible and arbitrary national cap, an effective...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing Agency plans to increase the thresholds in terms of the value of homes that can be considered for inclusion in the mortgage-to-rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21703/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 162. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide copies of all briefing materials he received for the labour employer economic forum meeting which took place on 4 April 2025. [18272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce legislation to provide for SMS scam filters equivalent to systems in operation to protect consumers in some analogous EU States, and that would enable and facilitate telecoms companies here to deploy the kind of scam filter solutions they are permitted to deploy in other EU states in which they...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 592. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to review the current loan to value rules for the various State supports for first-time buyers, to address cases similar to that of a single person (details supplied) brought to my attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 604. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make any changes to the personal tax system applied to the State pension where a PAYE worker has continued in paid employment after reaching the qualification age for the pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 724. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering any changes to the way in which the Power-Up grant was administered and awarded based on issues he is aware of that arose during the registration period, in particular, in relation to businesses that were ineligible for that grant due to incorrect classification of their business type while registering for the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 726. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide this Deputy with copies of all material, records and correspondence from 1 January to the 15 April between his office (details supplied) and all relevant officials of his Department and the Low Pay Commission officials, commission members and the Chair relating to the work of the Commission on the introduction of...