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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ports Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the leadership of the Drogheda Port Company (details supplied) further to correspondence he received on 12 April 2024; his position on the points raised in that correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the High Court judgment issued on 19 April in a case (details supplied); if he will now make the necessary arrangements to approve an increase in the pension payments to CIÉ pensioners who are members of the ‘1951 scheme’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance the background to and current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 24 April 2024 that it was sending Ireland a letter of formal notice (INFR(2024)2037) for the incorrect transposition of Directive (EU) 2018/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 278. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of and the current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 20 September 2022 that it was sending Ireland a formal notice (INFR(2022)0369) in respect of Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19498/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 279. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of and current situation with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 26 January 2023 that it was sending Ireland a reasoned opinion (INFR(2018)2235) for the non-conformity of Irish legislation with Directive 2014/67/EU on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to update and modernise wind turbine setback guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 654. To ask the Minister for Health the membership of the reference group of stakeholders that will help inform the work of the Commission on Care for Older People; how persons and interested service providers and representative bodies will feed into the work of the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18895/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 666. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE's CHO8 intends to provide any financial support to an organisation (details supplied) to deliver important supports in the community in the administrative area for those who have experienced heart events or stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18943/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out how he plans to limit the deployment of so-called "non-core" expenditure as he develops plans for budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20050/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: The use of non-core expenditure has become a feature of budgets in recent years, and the continued use of this device is concerning not only to me and Members of the House but, as the Minister knows, also to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC. Will he explain how he intends to limit the use of this device ahead of budget 2025?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister. Nobody is arguing that we did not have a necessity for additional spending in recent years. The issue is the means by which the Government has presented the spending. The Minister will recall the phrase used by IFAC after budget 2024, when it described the way in which expenditure was presented to the House as a form of "fiscal gimmickry". This was a very serious...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (2 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: Nobody is arguing that we did not require additional supports for those who are less well-off and those on modest incomes in terms of battling through the cost-of-living crisis. It is how we have presented it in the House. In recent years the budget has been presented in a very opaque way. Many budgetary items described in recent years as "once-off" have, in fact, persisted. This is the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Minister should be given the opportunity to respond on those amendments rather than repeating what he may say, although I do not want to anticipate what he will say.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(3) The Agency may, in consultation with a Minister of the Government having functions in relation to a sector of the economy, develop proposals for investment in that sector in order to support economic activity and employment.”. This relates to the investment strategy that the NTMA...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response. I would argue that the way in which I drafted my amendment, amendment No. 2, is broad enough not to necessarily tie any future Government’s hands on what it specifically ought to do in terms of functions with regard to a sector of the economy and the development of proposals for investment in a sector in order to support economic activity and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: The fund absolutely has to have, as the Minister said earlier, a commercial focus and there must be a commercial return. I limited my remarks earlier when I proposed the amendment to the requirement to invest in our indigenous SME base because it is not as productive as the SME base of the countries we like to compare ourselves to. It is not as competitive or innovative and with the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: This is important.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Doherty is right, to a point. Most of us would probably anticipate a scenario where it will be an annual routine for the Government to require itself to bring a resolution to the floor of the Dáil. There are some guardrails, if I can describe them as such, here in the legislation, which cites the figures of 0.8% and 0.4%. There is also a function here for the Irish Fiscal...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, line 2, to delete “31 July 2040” and substitute “31 July 2033”. My amendment No. 5 seeks the deletion of "31 July 2040" in section 10(1). My amendment No. 6 seeks the deletion of "before 2041" in section 11(1). Finally, my amendment No. 7 seeks the deletion of “in 2040 or in any year thereafter”. The dates...