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

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Conroy and Professor McMahon for responding to Deputy Doherty. I also have some questions and observations, while we are on the issue of under-provision in the health budget, which is well known. It has been ventilated here, on the floor of the Dáil and elsewhere that the Minister for Health in the Estimates process last year requested approximately €2 billion from...

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

Gerald Nash: In order to be helpful, the witnesses might also do the following before moving on. It is now evident that we are close to the point at which the HSE recruitment moratorium is about to be lifted. That will probably add to it. I do not know if that has been factored into the anticipated deficit for the rest of this year. Public calls were made by the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach...

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

Gerald Nash: Exactly.

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

Gerald Nash: I will go back to the charge of fiscal gimmickry and the misclassification of non-core spending. The figure of €4 billion for the classification non-core spending is absolutely a case of fiscal gimmickry. We sometimes lose sight of the significance of the scale of what we are talking about here. I am old enough to remember a point in time, eight, nine or ten years ago, when...

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

Gerald Nash: I thank the witnesses for their contribution this evening. It is always excellent to have them here with us. It enlightens the committee and helps us significantly in the work we have to do.

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

Gerald Nash: Yes you can, Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners to 1 June 2024 for the mortgage interest tax relief scheme on a county-by-county basis; if he will provide details of the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, by county; the cost of the scheme up to 1 June 2024; the average mortgage account balance for successful applicants; the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rationale for excluding businesses which pay their rates through their rental/lease agreement with a commercial landlord, to that landlord, from the scope of the increased cost of business grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26541/24]

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

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. I also thank Professor McMahon, Mr. Niall Conroy and their colleagues for being here this evening and for their contribution. It is appreciated.

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

Gerald Nash: I thank the professor. We will move on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: In 2021, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, set up a review of the Derelict Sites Act. In my view, the Act is being brought into disrepute on a daily basis. It is a charter for rogue property owners to evade their social responsibilities. Three years on, we are still waiting for the Minister, Deputy O’Brien’s, review to be published. While we wait for that report, the...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. We in the Labour Party support it wholeheartedly. After a sustained period of record rises, electricity prices are starting to fall but remain at around double what we might term "normal levels". Citizens are really suffering. They are struggling. I have lost count of the number of occasions during the last two years where people have...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Deputy Michael McGrath on his appointment. I thank him for his service in this House over many years and for his kindness to me when shadowing him as I was the Labour Party opposition spokesperson over the last few years. I congratulate the Deputy but I must also warn him, as the Leader of Sinn Féin did, that this House and the Irish people will not stand by the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is considering the development of a regional filming strategy, that covers both infrastructure and funding, over a ten-year period to enable the screen industry to be embedded in regions across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the membership of the derelict sites working group; when the report of the group will be published; if he will outline the key changes to the Derelict Sites Act 1990 that the group is recommending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-consultant hospital doctor posts which are currently unfilled at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; the total number of NCHDs at the hospital for the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant clinicians in post at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, broken down by specialism, between the years 2020 and 2024 inclusive; if he will confirm the number of consultant posts at the hospital which are currently unfilled, broken down by specialism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 470. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the rollout of spinal muscular atrophy in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; when he expects the first baby to be tested in Ireland for this potentially devastating disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27121/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 471. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations that his Department and the HSE are making to ensure that every baby in Ireland is tested for spinal muscular atrophy in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme as per his announcement in November 2023; when he expects the testing to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 472. To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €700,000 funding he secured in Budget 2024 to expand the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme will be spent; if he can give assurances that the funding is sufficient to ensure spinal muscular atrophy is included in the heel prick test in 2024 as per his commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27123/24]