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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown per local authority area of the affordable housing that is planned to be delivered in 2022; the details of each affordable housing scheme planned to be delivered in each local authority area in 2022; the details relating to the number of homes per scheme and the nature of the tenure in tabular form; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the emergency repair grant allocated to MICA homeowners; if that grant is controlled by his Department or by the local authority; the way the emergency repair grant can be accessed by homeowners who need the grant urgently particularly in view of recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of housing needs demand assessment in respect of cost rental accommodation per local authority area over the next five years in tabular form; the breakdown of the projected demand for cost rental accommodation over the next five years per local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will publish updated guidance to facilitate a transition period for the changes to the tenant purchase scheme pursuant to SI. No.776 of 2021 Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021; if his Department will facilitate flexibility in respect of tenants who had commenced the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a policy issue raised by a person (details supplied) relating to the unavailability of childcare in County Louth; his plans to ensure that sufficient childcare capacity is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 352. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the pilot scheme to turn rural pubs into remote working hubs; the funding provided to the scheme to date; the number of rural pubs converted into remote working hubs to date under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12175/22]

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that legislation to promote a flexible working environment is in the public interest, in order to achieve: — an appropriate combination of paid work with caring responsibilities, and the enjoyment of a better work-life balance; — the promotion of access to work, particularly for persons who face particular...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will pick up from where Deputy O'Reilly left off. There has been some anxiety with how the Covid recognition payment has been managed. My colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, first mooted the notion of a Covid recognition payment for all those who work in the health service in various roles. They worked very courageously, bravely and selflessly during the darkest days of the pandemic. They put...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Ó Broin's assessment of the approach that has been taken in the Bill is spot-on. I and the Labour Party support his amendments. We did not have the opportunity to table any amendments in this area ourselves but we may table some on Report Stage. I want to notify the committee of that. I am particularly interested in whether the Minister of State believes there should be a form...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made to the immigrant investor programme by Russian citizens in each of the years from 2019 to 2022; the number of Russian citizens who had their application successfully approved under the programme in the same period in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12381/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased that the Minister and Deputy Doherty placed on the record the primary reason we are debating these important issues, that is, as a consequence of the illegal war and occupation of Ukraine. Our primary responsibility must be for the people of Ukraine. They are the victims of Putin's war. We need at all times to have their concerns at the top of our agenda. We in this House...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to ongoing problems with the communal heating scheme at a location (details supplied); his views on the energy provider’s decision to charge commercial, not residential gas rates which has contributed to rapidly rising energy costs for residents; if he plans to raise this with...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am sharing time with Deputy Sherlock. I welcome this motion and the opportunity to speak on it. I am always conscious when speaking on these issues of the suffering of the people of Ukraine. That is the issue of paramount importance. That is the paramount issue we face today globally. We have a sense of proportion. None of the problems we debate here, important as they are, come close...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will speak to amendment No. 6 in due course, but I will first speak to amendment No. 5 briefly because it directly relates to the general issue that is informing this debate. As Deputies Cian O'Callaghan and Ó Broin articulated, it should be obvious to everyone - it is obvious to everyone except the Department and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: It would be helpful to read into the record the kinds of bodies that are excluded from becoming the registration body under this Bill. It is stated on page 11, In this section— “excluded body” means any of the following: ... a political party, or a body that promotes a political party or candidate; ... a body that promotes a political cause; ... [or] a chamber of...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(e) a trade union, whether of employers or of workers and whether registered or unregistered, within the meaning of the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1990;”.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will speak directly to amendment No. 18. One element of the amendment relates to the requirement as I see it and as, I think, do other Opposition spokespersons and parties as well, that representation from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions should be explicitly provided for in the legislation. That is not unusual. One would imagine, if the prevalent primary employer body that represents...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 18: In page 20, to delete lines 25 to 30 and substitute the following: “(a)1 person, being neither a registered person nor an employee of a registered person, who is nominated for such appointment by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (b) 4 persons who are nominated for such appointment by the Minister following consultation by him or her with the Minister for...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 22: In page 22, to delete lines 24 to 26 and substitute the following: “(8) (a) Two of the ordinary members appointed by the Minister under subsection (7) shall be registered construction professionals who are nominated for such appointment by the registration body. (b) One of the ordinary members appointed by the Minister under subsection (7) shall be...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 92. To ask the Taoiseach if the next Secretary General of his Department will be appointed through open public competition and under the Top-Level Appointments Committee process; and, if not, the reasons for the departure from that process. [14801/22]