Results 221-240 of 6,412 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6764/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (7 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 322: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make provision for the payment of the household charge on an instalment basis at An Post local offices and other appropriate outlets in the interests of facilitating the widest possible number of home owners to pay the charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6478/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (7 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 309: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the safeguards in place to ensure that the criteria for inclusion in the list of category three and four unfinished housing estates are being applied consistently across all counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6292/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (7 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the appeals process available to residents, who feel that their estate has been wrongly overlooked for inclusion in the list of category three and four unfinished housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6293/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of home helps who received supplementary welfare allowance payments in 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7055/12]

Written Answers — Companies Registration: Companies Registration (14 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide information as to the number of estate management companies registered in the State for the purposes of managing the provision of services in certain residential developments; if he will provide details as to the number of such companies which have been declared insolvent in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: They have been sacked.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Sinn Féin is implementing their policies.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: I will share time with Deputy John Lyons. I welcome this pro-jobs Bill, which includes a host of smart measures that will make Ireland stand out against its competitors and give us an advantage over those with whom we go head to head in foreign investment terms. If this legislation and the Government's very welcome jobs plan announced earlier in the week are about reorienting the country and...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: This form of government has no place in a modern parliamentary democracy and an opening-up of the budgetary system would also allow for genuine engagement with the Opposition, and allow it and backbench Government Deputies to engage constructively at a much earlier stage of the process than has previously been the case. There are supporters of this concept at senior level in government, in...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: The contributions from Sinn Féin are always heavy on analysis, I will give Deputy Stanley that, but are deficient in real solutions. A new and open approach to the budgetary process will expose the fact, whether they accept it or not, that the Sinn Féin emperor has no clothes when it comes to the real budgetary process in this country. There is, as I stated earlier, much in this Bill of...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (15 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 202: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 to provide for an appeals facility regarding inclusion of housing estates on the list of category three and four estates in view of the level of dissatisfaction expressed by residents in some estates at their exclusion from the lists; and...

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Government's jobs action plan as a timely and necessary intervention. I wonder how the members of the previous Government can maintain a straight face when speaking about job creation given their failure to grasp the enormity of the unemployment problem at a time when the crisis was growing. They vowed on several occasions to tackle the scourge of unemployment but only on the...

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (16 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children from this State with exceptional needs and behavioural issues who are currently receiving residential support in Scotland; if she will detail the cost to the Exchequer of same; if she will provide details on the number of special care unit and child detention centre units available to children with...

Written Answers — Travel Costs: Travel Costs (16 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health the mileage rates paid to Health Service Executive employees using their own personal vehicles for work related transport; the rates paid to staff in each HSE region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8876/12]

Written Answers — Travel Costs: Travel Costs (16 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health the rate per mile paid to transport providers engaged by the Health Service Executive in all HSE regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8877/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details on funding and grant opportunities available from him for community based organisations working in the area of integration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9321/12]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Staff: Nursing Home Staff (23 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delay in payments outstanding from the Health Service Executive in respect of staff of a nursing home (details supplied) in County Waterford; when the matter will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10504/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeals process involving the SCOPE section of her Department and relating to the following companies and persons (details supplied) will conclude; and when the decision relating to that process will be made available to those who are directly involved. [10677/12]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (28 Feb 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the excessive telephone costs involved for not-for-profit community-based organisations operating helpline services to vulnerable persons on a cross-Border basis; if he and his Northern Ireland counterpart have any plans to address the expense of making calls on this basis;...