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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: Booster vaccines for those aged over 60 will now be given with immediate effect. We welcome and support that initiative. Will the over-60s have to wait six months, given that there is a minimum interval of five months between shots? Will that not mean that many will not get their booster shot until early next year? The Taoiseach said that the national immunisation advisory committee,...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is difficult to keep track of the number of motions and Bills on housing generated by Deputy Ó Broin, by my colleagues in the Labour Party and other Opposition parties over the last two to three years. The Minister mentioned that in his earlier contribution. These are not abstract motions or Bills. They are drawn up and tabled here...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (21 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the proposed right to request legislation; if the legislation will be enacted by the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (21 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an updated analysis on the forecasted losses or gains to the Exchequer arising from Ireland’s decision to sign up to Pillars One and Two of the OECD global corporation tax reform initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51757/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Consultations (21 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department will publish the submissions made to the recent public consultation process on corporation tax reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51758/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to reform and extend the cycle to work scheme to include those on social welfare benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50485/21]

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Even two years ago, the notion that the Dáil would be proposing to extend any types of restrictions on the way we live our lives would have been unthinkable. The prospect of a global pandemic that has thus far taken the lives of more than 5,000 Irish citizens and millions of lives across the globe was the stuff of science fiction, thrillers and horror movies. It is through the lens of...

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister to the House. We are debating the Finance Bill at a very challenging and, indeed, dangerous time for our country and our citizens. Even since we debated budget 2022, a few short weeks ago, the situation regarding Covid-19 has worsened considerably. We are far from out of the woods yet and we must proceed with caution and care. The role that the institutions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an application for additional support for children with ASD in a school (details supplied) in County Louth; if she plans to change policy relating to this matter to ensure that children who have had early intervention classes at a mainstream school will retain their SNA support while being educated and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the results of a survey (details supplied) of 37 schools in the north-east Leinster area and the percentage found to have not been assigned a NEPS psychologist and that have been granted assessments through the scheme for the commissioning of psychological assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the results of a survey (details supplied) of 37 schools in the north-east Leinster area and the percentage found to have not yet managed to source a psychologist through the SCPA scheme to complete psychological assessments to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52355/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the results of a survey (details supplied) of 37 schools in the north-east Leinster area regarding the percentage of schools surveyed that have been assigned a NEPS psychologist in the 2021-2022 academic year and last academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52357/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the results of a survey (details supplied) of 37 schools in the north-east Leinster area regarding the collective total number of days since the start of the 2021-2022 academic year that schools were unable to get a substitute teacher to cover a mainstream class teacher; the collective total number of days they were unable to get...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (2 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide information on plans it has for a one hectare site in its ownership at Jamestown, Ratoath, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52998/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (3 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of registered undergraduate students at a college (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2021 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53606/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the immediate future of the Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme; the conditions and treatments the scheme covers; the number of patients from the Ireland who utilised the EU cross-border directive in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; the treatments they underwent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53469/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the decision to remove the grant of €2,500 for plug-in hybrid vehicles; if his attention has been drawn to the issues this has created for consumers who have pre-ordered such vehicles in the expectation that grant support would be provided; if consideration will be given to delaying the withdrawal of the grant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner practices in counties Louth and Meath that provided Covid-19 vaccinations to their patients under the initial vaccination programme roll-out; the number of general practitioner practices that have indicated to date that they will not provide the booster shot service to patients; if the HSE plans to utilise the mass...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. The so-called rainy day fund was established in 2018 and for reasons that are fairly obvious at this point in time, only one instalment of €500 million was paid into the fund. That was in 2019. The right thing to do was to use that €500 million to help fight the pandemic and to support jobs and business through the most...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a risk assessment regarding the winding down of the employment wage subsidy scheme and the potential impact on employment levels and the risk of corporate insolvencies; if his Department is considering a replacement scheme based on the principles of the successful German Kurzarbeit short-time work scheme; and if he will...