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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: A bit like the help-to-buy for the property developers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is getting worse.

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on the Finance Bill. It gives effect to many of the announcements made in the budget two short weeks ago. If we needed any convincing that budget 2025 was all about the pending election, budget 2026, a bare budget for working people, and the associated Finance Bill prove the point beyond any doubt. This time last year, billions in once-off payments were thrown around...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 233. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the investment of over €230 million in two new maritime surveillance aircraft for the Air Corps delivered in 2024, the targets that have been set by his Department and military command for a minimum level of surveillance flying hours per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57166/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence since the retirement of the King Air 200, multi-engine flight training in the Air Corps has been outsourced to civilian flight schools, if he intends continuing with this policy; if not, if there will be efforts to bring multi-engine conversion and airline pilot standards multi crew coordination courses back in-house; if this will feature as...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 235. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the approval of the master plan for the infrastructural development of Casement Aerodrome, when these plans will be published; if they will be resourced as part of voted budget or funds set aside under the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the Air Corps has previously employed the armed PC9 as an air interceptor for high profile security events such as the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and given recent personnel issues in the Air Cops, if the Air Corps presently has trained pilots to employ the PC9 in this armed role; if it will feature as a part of security arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the recent investment of over €350 million in aircraft for the Air Corps (details supplied), if he is satisfied that sufficient hangar space exists in Casement Aerodrome to protect these aircrafts from the corrosive moist Irish climate; if not, when additional hangar space will come online; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a local school building project (details supplied); the reason for the ongoing delays in realising this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56983/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I understand the constraints under which Mr. Makhlouf is operating. He put on the record that the issuer, meaning the State of Israel, decided that from 1 September 2025 it would cease making offers to the public under its prospectus in Ireland. Moving on from Deputy Brennan's question, precisely when did the Central Bank receive the confirmation from the State of Israel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: I find that extraordinary. When the information was forwarded to the witness by the Israeli authorities is a basic matter of fact. I am not trying to be deliberately difficult here. Generally speaking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: -----when it comes to establishing dates and matters of fact that are not commercially sensitive, I cannot understand why that information is not forthcoming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: It would be helpful if we could establish that, given Mr. Makhlouf said earlier or at least indicated in response to Deputy Brennan, that he would like to think that the work of the committee and so on contributed to a decision made by the Israeli state not to, for want of a better description, re-engage the Central Bank of Ireland in terms of the approval of a new prospectus. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Gerald Nash: It is part of the process and it does not necessarily relate to the detail in terms of any commercial or market sensitivity. It is a straightforward question. On what date did the issuer contact the Central Bank to confirm it would no longer be making offers to the public under the prospectus in Ireland?