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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 242.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to sign and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas the draft Security Employment Regulation Order which has been submitted to him by the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 639.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made on an FOI request (details supplied); if he is aware that the delays in receiving the initial response from his Department and also the additional information requested based on an agreed amendment to the original terms of the request represent breaches of the Act in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 640.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date on which his Department first received an offer from the owners/operators of a hospitality business (details supplied) for possible use of the premises as either accommodation for international protection applicants and/or beneficiaries of temporary protection; if he will provide details in terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 745.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons hospitality/retail staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda who are employed by a company (details supplied) have been excluded from coverage of the pandemic special recognition payment; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24979/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: When will the health service recruitment ban be lifted? It is affecting real people, especially the over-75s. It is June, yet, yesterday morning 33 people were on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. That number, unfortunately, has repeated itself today. There are 43 in Cork today and 34 in Galway, which is unprecedented for June. This is because these hospitals are not...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on the motion and we will not oppose it. Any day we debate a sincerely tabled motion in this Chamber to protect and support enterprise is a good one. I recall only too well debates on jobs and business in this Chamber, which were held in very different circumstances when I first entered this House 13 years ago. The fiscal crash meant we had an unemployment rate of...

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will pick up from where Deputy Ó Murchú left off. I am sure the Minister of State and the Chair will indulge me in referring to the proposal, or at least the contemplation, of another round of redundancies at PayPal Ireland. Those prospective redundancies will impact on staff who were originally located at the PayPal facility in our home county of Louth, in Dundalk town, and it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the difficulty being experienced by young adults with disabilities and additional needs in accessing transport to adult education facilities once they transfer from the special schools they attended as children (details supplied); what plans his Department have to address this anomaly; and if...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The committee is in public session. I have received apologies from Deputy Steven Matthews. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome our guests. This engagement is with representatives from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the acting chairperson of the council, Professor Michael McMahon, and Dr. Adele Bergin and Mr. Niall Conroy. Twice a year, we have an opportunity, as part of the EU semester, to meet the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council to consider issues raised in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Professor McMahon. Before I go to the first contributor, I notice Deputy Healy-Rae has his hand up.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am afraid not. We have an established rota and Deputy Healy-Rae is some way down the list-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----and we have a full attendance. I will go to Sinn Féin representative Deputy Doherty first.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Yes, and I will draw it to a close then.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Okay. I thank Professor McMahon and Mr. Conroy. We do not have a representative from Fine Gael online from what I can establish so the next speaker on our rota is Deputy Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Moynihan. The next contributor is Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Boyd Barrett is well over time but that does not take away from the merit of the points he is making, on which I absolutely agree. Could Professor McMahon respond within a minute?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Does Professor McMahon mean to say he never worked on a building site when he was in college?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The professor was the fire door industry’s loss.