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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed in underpayments in terms of the pensions of public servants in respect of the NSSO pension issue review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed by the State to public service pensioners arising from the NSSO pension issue review; the sums of money and the numbers involved in the form of bands and at intervals of €5,000; when these monies will be able to be recouped by those affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32321/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report of AHB Strategic Forum has been finalised; if has considered its contents; if he will publish the report and its recommendations; if he will outline the proposed next steps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third-level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on waiting times for under-18s for Orthodontist services in Drogheda and Dundalk and if there are plans in place to reduce waiting times for these services in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 861. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the issues Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients are having getting timey access to a new drug for the condition (details supplied); if immediate steps will be taken to make this drug available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32396/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of concerns around VAT liabilities in an industry (details supplied); if his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have given any consideration to an approach taken to this matter by the national tax authority in another EU Member State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33270/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Our witnesses are very welcome. I am conscious that Dr. Nuseibah needs to leave the meeting at 5 p.m., so time is of the essence. I am happy to limit my questions on the basis that my colleagues wish to put questions to him before he leaves. I thank him for being here today. I also thank him for the intellectual and legal clarity he has brought to the debate. We did not need moral or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is a nonsense, in my view. The point about the primacy or otherwise of the preamble, paragraph 88, is important because little weight or consideration has been given to that. My own view is that there is an obligation on the Central Bank to do that but it has not. Rather, it selectively quoted its technical responsibilities, if I can put it like that, and its requirement, as it sees...

Transparency and Social Value in Public Procurement Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate my colleague Deputy Farrell for bringing this Bill forward. It is significant legislation. It very much aligns with the work that the Deputy has done since she entered this Chamber in 2020. She is very much focused on the question of public procurement and driving economic and social change through the development of responsible public procurement systems. It is quite...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of defence attachés accredited to Ireland, both resident and non-resident; when defence attachés were first accredited to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 18. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in light of the recognised importance of An Garda Síochána's police liaison officer network in embassies abroad, particularly in recent high-profile extradition operations, he is convinced that a similar network of military attachés in embassies of Ireland abroad would be beneficial for the State's security and defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the 2015 White Paper on Defence proposal to explore the creation of a military attaché network, a proposal which was recommended for urgent introduction by the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34688/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Diplomatic Representation (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason it has taken his Department ten years to explore the creation of the military attaché network, while other Departments and agencies have significantly increased their global presence in embassies of Ireland abroad in the same timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance for the list of those in the media and other stakeholders that receive the Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin in advance of publication; to confirm the rules governing the provision of such reports to media or other stakeholders in advance of publication; how the release of market sensitive information that may be contained in such reports is regulated; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (25 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in the context of teacher supply challenges, a date for the implementation of the Teaching Council's proposed creation of a timebound provision within the revised Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2016 (details supplied); if she is aware of the difficulties being caused to some by the continuing delay in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an issue (details supplied) where SNAs moving from part-time roles to permanent staff roles are left without pay for the summer period preceding their first full-time term; if she and her Department have plans to address this anomaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a specific capital support scheme in place to provide financial assistance to schools to maintain and adapt long standing school gymnasia and other sports facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Louth County Council has had to limit access to housing adaptation grants and related schemes; if there are plans to provide additional resources to Louth County Council and other local authorities to meet demand for such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (24 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a policy change will be considered to provide the Revenue Commissioners with the power to collect levies under the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 from individuals or businesses with properties on local authority derelict sites registers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33981/25]