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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: That would be useful. A range of organisations, including Comfort Keepers, received just over €1 million from the HSE in 2007, and that expenditure has climbed to €3.267 million, which is a significant rise. Clearly that organisation is very active in terms of the HSE contracts. Can Ms McGuinness advise how commission is calculated and what amount of commission a private care...
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: What do we mean by responsibility in the context of this Bill? In particular, what is our own cultural attitude to responsibility? In my view, for too long our default approach to responsibility has been like someone sitting in a restaurant looking at the healthy option on the menu. We know it is the right thing to do, we know it is good for us but we quietly hope that someone else would...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of any direct financial support provided to the Irish Banking Federation from his Department in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44208/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Election of Chairman (16 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: I propose Deputy Michael McCarthy as Chairman of the joint committee.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: We are all agreed it is vital that citizens who require home help hours and home care packages get the hours and service they are entitled to expect in any decent society. Home help services and packages are a lifeline to some of the most vulnerable members of our community. This year, 10.7 million hours of home help support will be provided in communities from Louth to Limerick and Donegal...
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: Compare Sinn Féin's pronouncements tonight with its decision last week that will see at least half and perhaps all state-run residential care homes in Northern Ireland close in five years.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: That is hypocrisy and deception of the most shameful kind, particularly viewed in the context of this motion. Is the party tabling the motion tonight the same party that is closing 70 schools in Northern Ireland, only a matter of miles from my constituency where we are building a considerable number of schools and extending even more? By slashing spending in the North to the tune of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Nobody went AWOL.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Nobody has gone AWOL or at least from the perspective of this allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: There are many people under a great deal of pressure at present.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: I, too, welcome the representatives of the representative organisations and Mr. Howard and his colleagues for this important discussion. It never ceases to amaze me the low level of pay enjoyed by privates in particular, and often how long it takes somebody to reach the middle of the scale. It is important to look at the discussions that we are having this morning on allowances in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: After about two years of service, core pay only reaches €391.06, which is approximately equal to the national minimum wage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Approximately €5 million was paid out on Border duty allowance. I have some understanding of that allowance in the context of County Louth, where I was born and reared and which I represent as a Deputy. I am aware of the importance of that allowance to members of the Defence Forces in my own area. How long has the allowance been in place and is it the case that a member of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: The Border duty allowance for enlisted personnel is €96.23, which would amount to 15% to 20% of pay even for somebody in a middle grade. It represents a significant amount for a family. It is ironic that members of the Defence Forces are often required to accompany personnel of other emergency services who enjoy overtime and various other allowances. Mr. Howard shone a useful light...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Is that the experience of RACO and PDFORRA? I assume they meet regularly with colleague organisations internationally.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: In regard to reorganisation and the challenges it presents to members of the Defence Forces and the system in general, have the representative groups identified additional personal costs for its members which are not catered for in existing pay structures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: The Croke Park agreement restricts redeployment to a 45 km radius. That clearly does not apply to the Defence Forces given what we know about barracks closures and the obligation on personnel to move. It is right that the structure is based on strict discipline and order but it must impact on morale.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Fatigue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: As a Deputy who represents members of the Defence Forces, I am struck by Mr. Rooney’s reference to the reliance of personnel on family income supplement. The Oireachtas needs to reflect on that. If a decision was taken to remove the Border allowance or any other allowance that, in my opinion, forms part of core pay, does Mr. Rooney agree it would be a false economy because...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: I am asking for the view of PDFORRA because it deals with these matters on a daily basis.