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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of efforts to streamline the delivery of large-scale capital projects; the steps he is taking to ensure cost-effective and timely delivery of future projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the issues raised in correspondence by final year bachelor of education students at a university (details supplied) regarding the upcoming adapted school placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an issue (details supplied); if she has plans to address the issue of a system of pension entitlements for persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1218/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the policy issues raised by a person (details supplied) with regard to the criteria for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62953/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1396. To ask the Minister for Health the level of specialist services available for patients presenting to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for ocular emergencies at weekends; if patients with eye-related emergencies who present to the hospital at late hours or at weekends are seen and treated immediately by a specialist ophthalmologist or a member of the ophthalmology team; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 1655. To ask the Minister for Health the reason haematopoietic stem cell transplantation treatment is not available to patients in Ireland with multiple sclerosis; if there are plans to change this approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1226/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: It has been a necessity.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and its operations; if so, the status of those plans; if his attention has been drawn to the Geo Directory Residential Buildings Report for Q4 of 2021 which has identified approximately 90,000 vacant residential properties and 20,000 derelict residential properties across the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: As I hope the Minister of State would agree, the Derelict Sites Act 1990 is in very bad need of reform. The provisions of the Act are very worthy in theory but experience has shown that it is rarely used to good effect by local authorities. Derelict properties and, separately, housing that is vacant for some time needs to be the focus with regard to turning around properties in town and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State. I have some comments. Can he say when the review will be complete? This is really urgent. There is a mismatch between the register and the directory. There is no doubt about that. Nobody can say that the Derelict Sites Act is working. We know from looking around us in our own home areas that dereliction is creating significant social and economic scars in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: There is much talk of carrots but very little talk of sticks. We have waited far too long for a vacant sites tax and some form of "use it or lose it" levy that would be applied to derelict sites. I said earlier that the dereliction we see all around us shames us. It has significant societal, social and economic impacts. The derelict sites that are available to us present a great...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the annual rate of inflation in Ireland has risen for fourteen months in a row reaching 5.5 per cent in December, the highest in over twenty years; — the rise in inflation is being driven by increased costs for electricity, home-heating oil and gas, higher rents, housing costs and mortgage payments, and rising prices for...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Get off the hobby horse.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Pay the money you owe back to the State.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Are you enjoying the dividends?

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Healy-Rae is like a stopped clock.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is unparliamentary.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Pay back the money you owe to the State.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy is an empty vessel.