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

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

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

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

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 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...

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]

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...

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 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]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 604. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make any changes to the personal tax system applied to the State pension where a PAYE worker has continued in paid employment after reaching the qualification age for the pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 724. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering any changes to the way in which the Power-Up grant was administered and awarded based on issues he is aware of that arose during the registration period, in particular, in relation to businesses that were ineligible for that grant due to incorrect classification of their business type while registering for the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 726. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide this Deputy with copies of all material, records and correspondence from 1 January to the 15 April between his office (details supplied) and all relevant officials of his Department and the Low Pay Commission officials, commission members and the Chair relating to the work of the Commission on the introduction of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Louth and Meath ETB headquarters development for Drogheda; the reasons for the delay in a project that was agreed 12 years ago by Government; when contractors will be on site; when the project will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Regulations (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will advise on any work being undertaken in his Department on enabling regulations under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018 to allow for the development of a shared fraud database in Ireland; if his Department is engaging with the Department of Finance, the Central Bank and any other relevant Departments and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 1749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many ACRES applications are awaiting processing, approval and payment as of 18 April 2025; if he will provide the data on a county basis, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20640/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Departments (29 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 2404. To ask the Minister for Health if referrals to hospital emergency departments from out-of-hours services like NEDOC are not liable for a charge at accident and emergency; and if so, if she will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) is being pursued by a debt collection agency for payment of this charge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20722/25]

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]