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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details on all of the engagement IDA has had with a company (details supplied) in 2022 in advance of its recent decision to propose 307 redundancies at its operations in Dundalk and west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review his stated strategy to unwind the State’s shareholding in commercial banks (details supplied) in light of a recent European Central Bank paper which cites that a mixed composition consisting of foreign and domestic-owned banks that are controlled by the state and private owners is advisable; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with his stated policy decision to unwind the State’s shareholding in commercial banks (details supplied) in light of a recent European Central Bank paper; if he agrees with the analysis that a fully-privatised banking sector may worsen the impact of crisis periods; if he agrees that Ireland is particularly vulnerable given the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider pausing the sale of the State’s shareholding in a bank (details supplied), in light of a recent European Central Bank paper which states that a mixed composition consisting of foreign and domestic-owned banks that are controlled by the state and private owners is advisable, in order to conduct a full review of the risks of a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that retired civil servants with qualifying pensions have not yet received the 1% pay increase that was granted in October 2021 which current civil servants have already received; when he expects that all persons eligible for this pension increase will have their increase applied; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that has taken place between a development company and his Department and or IPAS on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a community employment scheme (details supplied) that has been instructed by her Department to discontinue a long-established programme of environmental works in three estates in Ardee, County Louth; if she will provide documentary evidence from her Departmental officials outlining the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement that has taken place between a development company and his Department and or IPAS on an issue (details supplied); if agencies such as the HSE and the Department of Education have been consulted to ensure that local supports and service provision will be put in place to support such an initiative;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 726. To ask the Minister for Health when stakeholders will receive a letter confirming funding for the Sláintecare: Towards Self-Care in Headache project so that the participating hospitals can retain and recruit vital staff, as per his Department’s announced roll-out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will extend the Brexit temporary fleet tie-up scheme 2022 to include the month of December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27745/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 20: In page 20, lines 21 and 22, to delete “are civil servants within the meaning of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956” and substitute “are civil servants (within the meaning of the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005) in the Civil Service of the State”. This technical amendment seeks to ensure we properly classify the civil...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am happy to withdraw the amendment on that basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 35: In page 39, lines 15 and 16, to delete all words from and including “(1)” in line 15 down to and including line 16 and substitute the following: “(1) The Registrar shall maintain the Register of Political Parties and shall cause it to be published on the Commission’s website. (2) The Registrar shall in addition cause to be published on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am disappointed by the response of the Minister of State. If the registrar of political parties is required to have all this information and, from what the Minister of State is telling me, the relevant documents and so on can be made available for inspection and scrutiny, then surely, in the interests of transparency, it would not be a significant ask of the new commission to cater for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: We have a significant amount of business to get through this evening and in the coming days, so I will not press the amendment but I reserve the right to re-enter it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: Far be it from me to put words in Deputy O'Callaghan's mouth. This is a well-presented amendment seeking merely to establish a review of this policy question. Similar amendments were ruled out of order for different reasons but I am glad we can have a discussion about this, brief as it might be. It seems eminently sensible that this might be the first job, in terms of the research...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: This is about ensuring there is proportionality. We know that the PRSTV, multi-seat constituency system is among the most proportionate systems in terms of the outcomes and value, if I can describe it as such, for people's votes. Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin have reaffirmed their commitment to multi-seat constituencies and how that can produce a more proportionate and fairer...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: Certainly not; quite the contrary. My amendments are self-explanatory. If the Minister of State would commit to entertaining them, it would be a good day for democracy, for smaller parties and for the system generally. When my party was larger, it was consistent in respect of the number of seats that should be returned from each constituency. The issue of county boundaries and so forth...