Results 501-520 of 6,412 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff the expenditure on agency staff amounts to within the Health Service Executive and public health service broken down by separate grades and function in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52011/12]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: I wish to return to the point Deputy Donohoe made in respect of servicing the national debt. What percentage of taxation is used to service that debt? Is it correct that 20% of the overall tax take is being used in this regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: Mr. Corrigan has left his crystal ball at home and so have I because that is the responsible thing to do in current circumstances. Is he of the view that we are on target to reach, by 2015, the national debt limit set by the EU ?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: I wish to deal now with some issues relating to the State Claims Agency and the establishment of the legal costs unit. I have been arguing for some time that such an approach should be taken. Am I correct in stating that this unit will deal with third-party costs from the Mahon and Moriarty tribunals and, potentially, those from the Smithwick tribunal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: The legal costs unit has not yet been set up on a statutory basis. Is it the case that it is intended to establish it on such a basis?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: There have been massive third-party legal costs relating to tribunal investigations into graft and corruption in public life. In that context, there has been a legitimate public outcry regarding the level of payments made to barristers who - in my opinion, this is a reflection on the tribunals - were carrying out their investigations at a very leisurely pace. They clocked up massive legal...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: When will the unit be up and running and when will it have the resources required to allow it to address the issues to which I refer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: I presume that a team of forensic accountants and other professionals is going to be engaged to examine the bills of costs submitted by barristers engaged in tribunal work. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: Will Mr. Breen explain the difference between the system that is going to apply in the context of the legal costs unit and that which has obtained in recent years? When a bill of costs is submitted to the State Claims Agency at present, who is responsible for examining it? What types of saving are being targeted? What will make it different? What is the great innovation with the unit and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: Could Mr. Breen cover both, please?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (27 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make provision under the new lottery licensing regime to provide funding for organisations currently in receipt of resources from the Department of Justice and Equality under the charitable lotteries scheme which will be gradually wound down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52611/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (27 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Defence his future plans for the Slaugh Hall facility in Drogheda, County Louth, in view of his decision to restructure the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52610/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (27 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the retention and continued development of a facility (details supplied) in County Louth. [52177/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (27 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of certain facilities (details supplied) in County Louth [52178/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make arrangements to deduct the household charge and forthcoming property tax directly from the salaries of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53642/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the institutions participating in the mortgage arrears resolution process and the dates from which they accessed the scheme. [53682/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative number of applications received under the mortgage arrears resolution process to the last day in October 2012 or the date at which the most recent statistics per participant institution are available. [53683/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative number of applications approved under the mortgage arrears resolution process, the application is admitted under the MARP, and processed by the arrears support unit to the last day in October 2012 or the most recent quarterly reporting date, per participant institution and their placement under the following headings of restructuring, interest...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative number of applications refused or declined by the arrears support unit to the last day in October 2012 or the most recent quarterly reporting date, per participant institution; the rationale for refusal under the following headings of refusal/decline, unsustainable, sufficient income, sufficient ancillary assets and any other headings applied in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (29 Nov 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative number of applications which were refused or declined by the arrears support unit to the last day in October 2012 or the most recent quarterly reporting date, per participant institution where appeals have subsequently been lodged to the institutions internal appeals board. [53686/12]