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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (15 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the new temporary business energy support scheme; the number of applications that have been accepted to date; the average request in cash terms; the number of applications per county; the number of applications broken down by sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63012/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a policy issue raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to the ongoing teacher retention crisis; her plans, if any, for an appropriate online portal on which teachers seeking voluntary redeployment could enter their details to seek a direct swap with a matching teacher seeking the reverse relocation as proposed in a...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: In my experience, Part 8 has generally worked very well. Certainly, in my experience as a local authority member for 12 years and as someone who is still very much engaged with my old council team in County Louth and east Meath, I cannot recall any particular problems in terms of Part 8, or any element of it representing a logjam for the council providing itself with permission, for want of...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(5) Each amendment to the Act of 2000 effected by this Act shall continue in operation for 18 months from the coming into operation of the amendment concerned, and shall thereupon stand repealed.”. It will be useful to read the amendment again to the House. It states, "Each amendment...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response to my questions. What I do not hear from him, though, is any argument that would claim, from his point of view, that there is anything radically wrong with the principle of nominating bodies being involved in the process of appointing members of the board, as they have been in the past. I have not heard that from the Minister at all. It seems to me...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I support the thrust of this amendment and what it wants to achieve. I did not have the benefit of being involved in the pre-legislative scrutiny at the committee but my colleague, Senator Moynihan, did. I am familiar with the panel system which has been in place to nominate potential appointees from the nominating bodies. These are organisations, like the Royal Institute of the Architects...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Plus.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: In the limited time we have available, I have to be straight with the Minister. We cannot and will not support the Bill, which should come as no surprise to the Minister. Our colleague, the Labour Party's housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, made the party's position on this Bill very clear. She did so both in the Seanad and in correspondence with the Minister. We are opposed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a policy issue raised by an Irish citizen living abroad relating to archaic list of professions allowed to witness Irish passports (details supplied); if he shares the view that both the list of professionals is archaic and particularly burdensome for Irish citizens living abroad and such professionals in foreign...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I share in the earlier remarks from Deputy Mairéad Farrell in wishing the Minister well over the next period of time without pre-empting anything. We all know that it is intended that he will move across the corridor next weekend. I wish him well and I am sure he will miss these occasions once a year when he is moving the Appropriation Bill, as the country watches in. I am equally...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Housing is the foundation on which a decent and functioning society is built. Precarious housing leads to precarious lives. For this and the previous Fianna Fáil supported Government's abject failure on housing, the citizens of Ireland and our society and economy will pay a severe price. I do not want to be flippant or in any way dismissive given the seriousness of the crisis we now...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the concrete actions taken by officials at his Department, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to intensify their engagement with tech employers following recent high-profile layoffs within the sector; if he will provide an update on the meetings that his officials or stated agencies have had with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will publish the planned White Paper on industrial policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to review any provisions of the Protection of Employment Acts 1977 to 2014 in respect of the requirement for employers to notify the Minister of proposed collective redundancies and the obligation on employers to engage in an information and consultation process with employees' representatives; if he will consider...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the next steps that he plans to take on foot of the Labour Employer Economic Forum High Level Group on Collective Bargaining Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (8 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position that Ireland took at the 1 December 2022 meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on COM/2022/71, the proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending EU Directive No. 2019/1937; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61441/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not including third-level students who are repeating first year in the scheme whereby student fees were reduced by €1,000 as part of the Government's cost-of-living support package; if he will provide a costing for the 2022-2023 academic year; if students in this category were to be included in the measure; if he plans...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: What Deputy Doherty is saying is interesting. It is a live possibility that something like that could happen. In theory, the section allows for that and it could therefore happen in practice. If there is the potential for these kinds of situations to arise where there is suspicion of contraventions, where full hearings do not take place, and these issues are then resolved, how might this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Even in an anonymised format?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 33: In page 54, to delete lines 17 to 24 and substitute the following: “(6) On an application under subsection (5), the High Court shall confirm the decision unless it is satisfied— (a) that, by reason of a serious error or omission, whether in the record of the decision or in the conduct of the proceedings, it would in all the circumstances...