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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to ensure that school secretaries employed by boards of management receive equivalent pensions, leave entitlements and the equivalent benefits and conditions enjoyed by her Department or ETB-employed school secretaries/administrators; her views on whether this is an inequity and anomaly that is required to be addressed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of any engagement between his Department and other Government Departments on the question of short-time work supports in the context of the announcement by President Trump of new tariffs on EU goods on 2 April; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18270/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has decided to review supports for workers who are put on short-time work in the context of the impact on workers and businesses of the tariffs announced by the US President on 2 April; if he will consider introducing a scheme similar to the German Kurzarbeit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance what avenues are open for borrowers with ongoing legal or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman cases against the IBRC and its predecessor institutions, after the planned winding-down on 1 June 2025, given IBRC’s special liquidation status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17322/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 362. To ask the Minister for Finance in cases where borrowers have new evidence to present to the regulator or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to support ongoing cases against IBRC and its predecessor institutions, whether there will be legal avenues open to continue to pursue such cases after the winding down on 1 June 2025, given IBRC’s special liquidation status; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 363. To ask the Minister for Finance if independent audits have been conducted into the IBRC’s mortgage loan book to determine the extent of any current cases with the Central Bank or Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman alleging reckless lending or misconduct and where those cases have yet to be adjudicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 364. To ask the Minister for Finance how he will satisfy himself that the IBRC has fully complied with all of its legal and regulatory obligations before its planned closure on 1 June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; if she will ensure that the recommendation made by a Louth-based SNA to provide additional resources to a school in Drogheda, which has been declined, will be honoured (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17374/25]

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I will focus my comments on the recruitment and allocation of SNAs. I recently submitted a parliamentary question on behalf of a local school in my hometown of Drogheda. Despite a clear recommendation from the local special educational needs organiser, SENO, to increase its SNA allocation, new posts were denied. That is because of some invisible and arbitrary national cap, an effective...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: I hope the House will join me in wishing all working people across the country a happy May Day. However, delaying the living wage is no way to mark International Workers' Day. It has been 25 years since the minimum wage was introduced and ten years since the Low Pay Commission, which I established, made its first annual recommendation on an appropriate rate for the national minimum wage....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Speaking earlier on the radio, the Minister said he makes decisions based on evidence. There is no evidence anywhere in the world to suggest that modest incremental increases to rates of national minimum wages impact employment rates or competitiveness. The Minister talks a lot about competitiveness but by delaying the introduction of the living wage, he is owning up to the problems the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Minister also failed to understand and accept that there has always been churn in the retail and hospitality sectors. There were enormous net job gains in the retail and hospitality sectors in recent years, sectors which, quite rightly, were protected during the pandemic but which have continued to be protected with significant subsidies that have no conditions whatsoever attached to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing Agency plans to increase the thresholds in terms of the value of homes that can be considered for inclusion in the mortgage-to-rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disability Services (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that Ireland’s entire public transport fleet is accessible to people with disabilities and in particular, wheelchair users given that Ireland ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2018; the timeline for the completion of that process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 May 2025)

Gerald Nash: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to review or increase the income limits for social housing in the Louth and Meath local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21820/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 162. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide copies of all briefing materials he received for the labour employer economic forum meeting which took place on 4 April 2025. [18272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce legislation to provide for SMS scam filters equivalent to systems in operation to protect consumers in some analogous EU States, and that would enable and facilitate telecoms companies here to deploy the kind of scam filter solutions they are permitted to deploy in other EU states in which they...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 592. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to review the current loan to value rules for the various State supports for first-time buyers, to address cases similar to that of a single person (details supplied) brought to my attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/25]