Results 4,081-4,100 of 6,454 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if any virtual asset service provider has been successfully registered with the Central Bank to date; if the Central Bank has published guidelines on the assessment timelines for completed applications and the average length of the processing time to date of each pending registration; if his attention has been drawn to the delay by Ireland in implementing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review section 110 provisions given that Russian companies outside of the banking sector accounted for over 60% of the €35.5 billion in assets held in Irish special purpose vehicles used for funding purposes at the end of 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14309/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 390. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm, given the temporary closure of the Embassy of Ireland to Ukraine, that all locally employed staff and contractors, and the relevant members of their families, were offered passage to Ireland and international protection here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14301/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the objective evidential basis for the reason that certain schools (details supplied) were not elevated to DEIS band 1 status from DEIS band 2 in the context of the recent decisions she has made in this policy area; if she will provide all of the objective criteria including information on the metrics, precise data sets and scoring matrix her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the development of a school (details supplied); when she expects that the new building will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14586/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the objective evidential basis for the reason that certain schools (details supplied) were not elevated to DEIS band 1 status from DEIS band 2 in the context of the recent decisions she has made in this policy area; if she will provide all of the objective criteria including information on the metrics, precise data sets and scoring matrix her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the development of the new primary school (details supplied); when she expects the new building to be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14591/22]

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party will support this Bill, which is by and large technical. I do not intend to use all my time and many of the issues I would be ventilating if I were to do so have been adequately covered by the Minister of State and Opposition Members. The Bretton Woods agreement was a groundbreaking accord forged from the ashes of the Second World War. It created the IMF and the World...

Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2022: Motion (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: On behalf of the Labour Party, I will be happy to continue to support these particular exemptions, the reasons for which are very clear. I agree with Deputy Ó Broin that elements of the exemptions in terms of planning regulations and law may need to take on a degree of permanence. I know there is an ongoing discussion within the Department, and across society and the country more...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on a fifth freedom permit application from an airline (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15818/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a policy issue raised by a person (details supplied) regarding health expenses associated with additional diet expenses for coeliacs; if he is satisfied that retailers adequately mark such gluten-free food products appropriately on consumer receipts in order to facilitate a tax relief claim on dietary expenses; if not, if he or the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to an ongoing appeals process (details supplied); her views on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the waiting times in each local authority for the processing of a housing application by a member of the public in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of registrations, inspections and permissions of short-term lettings that have taken place in each local authority in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the number of inspectors allocated to carry out inspections of short-term lettings in each local authority; if those inspectors are employed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place with regard to a student contracting Covid-19 before or during State examinations; when she expects to publish guidance on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide detailed breakdown of the total cost of external professional legal advice provided to the office of a person (details supplied) at Dundalk Institute of Technology since 1 January 2019; the purpose, subject matter and cost of each form of advice sought; if the office procured any advice from any legal firm in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (29 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 815. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not accepted the recommendation made by an organisation (details supplied) on rules to regulate the operation of pharmacies in respect of the temporary absence of pharmacists and as this relates to the functions and role of pharmaceutical assistants; the next steps he plans to take to resolve this issue; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (31 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a policy matter concerning the provision of free bicycle parking spaces at Iarnród Éireann stations (details supplied); his further views on whether private, for-payment bicycle lockers may take preference over free bicycle racks at some stations; if he is in agreement that all stations that currently have...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I very much welcome the Bill. As the Minister knows, it has been a very long time coming. Many of us in the Chamber are around politics a long number of years. I would be interested to see how many times the electoral commission has been mentioned in the Official Report. I remember in 2008 and also in 2012 my colleague and a fellow Cork man, former Deputy Ciarán Lynch, developed two...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the provision of a first home market based on the shared equity scheme as set out in Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18004/22]