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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have a general question. I would not put the Minister of State in a situation where he might be asked to answer a question about a specific case as that would be unfair and unwise. I have dealt with cases in recent months where the Garda Síochána has sent the book of evidence to the DPP, the DPP goes through the process and decides not to prosecute, and individuals who are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: Undoubtedly, a constitutionally and legally robust accountability regime is something that has been absent for many years. There is consensus across the Oireachtas regarding the necessity of this legislation. It is a good thing and everybody recognises the accountability regime needs to be strong and robust for all the reasons we know. Our society and economy have paid the price due to the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: The impact of the changes the Minister for Health will make to Navan emergency department, ED, or Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda from next Monday will mean that "patients may die". These are not my words. These are only some of the words of 17 hospital consultants of my own local hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes, in Drogheda, expressed in what was an alarming letter to the Minister...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: This is an outrageous situation and simply cannot go ahead. I am disappointed the Minister, Deputy Donnelly is not here and that is no disrespect to the Minister of State. This is an issue that has been on his desk for many months. The reality is that he simply does not have a plan for Drogheda. The Minister of State has seen, heard about and read about the letter from the 16 hospital...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I do not believe that a plan is in place. I have been seeking a meeting with senior representatives for months about the impending changes that the Minister for Health is considering. I have been stonewalled consistently. I do not believe that a plan in place. The Minister of State referred to several important issues that need to be fully addressed before any transition might occur....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----but that is laughable. It is not true. The consultants counter that, and they do not agree with the Minister of State in the context of that assessment. They are the people we need to listen to.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not including third-level students who are repeating first year in the scheme whereby student fees were reduced by €1,000 as part of the Government's cost-of-living support package; if he will provide a costing for the 2022-2023 academic year; if students in this category were to be included in the measure; if he plans...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a policy issue raised by constituents regarding the new corporate sustainability due diligence directive (details supplied); if he will provide an update on his plans, if any, to seek a strengthening of this directive to ensure it applies to a wider range of companies and their overseas values chains; if issues...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the Primary Medical Certificate Board; the number of applications that are waiting to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60718/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO8 area; if so, if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60163/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams in CHO 8, which impacts those living with neurological conditions within the Louth and east Meath constituency (details supplied); his plans, if any, for a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants who have left posts at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda to date in 2022; the number and nature/discipline of the posts that are currently unfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60846/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (8 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position that Ireland took at the 1 December 2022 meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on COM/2022/71, the proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending EU Directive No. 2019/1937; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61441/22]

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Housing is the foundation on which a decent and functioning society is built. Precarious housing leads to precarious lives. For this and the previous Fianna Fáil supported Government's abject failure on housing, the citizens of Ireland and our society and economy will pay a severe price. I do not want to be flippant or in any way dismissive given the seriousness of the crisis we now...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I share in the earlier remarks from Deputy Mairéad Farrell in wishing the Minister well over the next period of time without pre-empting anything. We all know that it is intended that he will move across the corridor next weekend. I wish him well and I am sure he will miss these occasions once a year when he is moving the Appropriation Bill, as the country watches in. I am equally...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: In the limited time we have available, I have to be straight with the Minister. We cannot and will not support the Bill, which should come as no surprise to the Minister. Our colleague, the Labour Party's housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, made the party's position on this Bill very clear. She did so both in the Seanad and in correspondence with the Minister. We are opposed to the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I support the thrust of this amendment and what it wants to achieve. I did not have the benefit of being involved in the pre-legislative scrutiny at the committee but my colleague, Senator Moynihan, did. I am familiar with the panel system which has been in place to nominate potential appointees from the nominating bodies. These are organisations, like the Royal Institute of the Architects...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Plus.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response to my questions. What I do not hear from him, though, is any argument that would claim, from his point of view, that there is anything radically wrong with the principle of nominating bodies being involved in the process of appointing members of the board, as they have been in the past. I have not heard that from the Minister at all. It seems to me...