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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: The Committee on Budgetary Oversight published a report this month entitled An Overview of Comparative Parliamentary Engagement in the Budgetary Cycle. The report notes that despite some improvements that have been made since the previous financial crisis "parliamentary involvement in the budgetary cycle may still be suboptimal", which is code for terrible and it really is terrible. I want...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: Of course, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight is now in place, as is the Parliamentary Budget Office. They are two very important innovations in terms of robust oversight of expenditure and budget planning in terms of the parliamentary process. Those innovations were introduced in response to the previous financial crisis and deficits identified by international organisations in terms of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I hope the Minister will agree that, constitutionally, the Dáil has a very important function in terms of the allocation of resources. It behoves the Executive to provide a more balanced approach to budget planning and to ensure not just that resources are made available to the Dáil in our consideration of budgets and financial matters, but that the political will is there to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the recent proposals for an EU directive (details supplied) which includes the call for an action plan to promote collective bargaining; his plans to update the national public procurement policy framework to help promote collective bargaining given that countries with high collective bargaining coverage tend to display a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will implement a right to disconnect policy across the public services given the increased incidence of remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce new reforms to ensure enhanced monitoring, transparency and effectiveness of public spending in view of the overspend on a series of flagship projects, including the national broadband plan, with a 500% cost overrun, the national children's hospital, with a 94% overrun, and Dublin Port tunnel, with a 160%...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 142. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the proposed national economic plan; and when it will be published. [36729/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 143. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [37137/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Action Plan (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 145. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board that have taken place to date in 2020; and the number scheduled for the remainder of 2020. [36072/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 157. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under Budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37127/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Domestic Violence Services (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37128/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37129/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the arrangements under the relationship framework in respect of the relationship between him and a bank (details supplied) in view of Covid-19 and the upcoming national economic plan; his views on whether the State-owned bank could offer business and personal loans at ECB interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value in cash terms of the support availed of by a company (details supplied) under the temporary wage subsidy scheme; his views on whether this was an effective use of public funding in view of a recent report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36731/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the policy of banks requesting mortgage applicants to confirm whether their employer is seeking State Covid assistance through the employment wage subsidy scheme; his views on whether banks may use the publication of the list of firms availing of the scheme to deny entire cohorts of workers the opportunity to obtain mortgages; his plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or the regulator have plans to develop a public information campaign to highlight the potential savings available through mortgage switching as outlined in a recent Central Bank report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36733/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 286. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has received a copy of the terms of reference for the strategic review being undertaken by a bank (details supplied); and if so, if he will publish the terms of reference without delay. [37112/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to broaden the save-as-you-earn scheme out to financial institutions that take deposits but which may not be a bank. [37115/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budgets (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland’s position on the indicative roadmap on the introduction of new EU own resources over the 2021 to 2027 period agreed by the EU on 10 November 2020 which includes a plastics-based contribution as of 2021, an emissions trading system-based own resource from 2023, possibly linked with a carbon border adjustment mechanism, a digital...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37134/20]