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Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy is an empty vessel.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy abused his position.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Take a left and become a right winger.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: There is a motion before the House.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: We expect the Chair to act independently.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the annual rate of inflation in Ireland has risen for fourteen months in a row reaching 5.5 per cent in December, the highest in over twenty years; — the rise in inflation is being driven by increased costs for electricity, home-heating oil and gas, higher rents, housing costs and mortgage payments, and rising prices for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to carry out a full review on the levy imposed on private occupational pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3661/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of Way (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has plans to or will consider amending the legislation in relation to right of way matters and trespassing laws similar to the scenario raised by a person (details supplied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3772/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and its operations; if so, the status of those plans; if his attention has been drawn to the Geo Directory Residential Buildings Report for Q4 of 2021 which has identified approximately 90,000 vacant residential properties and 20,000 derelict residential properties across the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: As I hope the Minister of State would agree, the Derelict Sites Act 1990 is in very bad need of reform. The provisions of the Act are very worthy in theory but experience has shown that it is rarely used to good effect by local authorities. Derelict properties and, separately, housing that is vacant for some time needs to be the focus with regard to turning around properties in town and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State. I have some comments. Can he say when the review will be complete? This is really urgent. There is a mismatch between the register and the directory. There is no doubt about that. Nobody can say that the Derelict Sites Act is working. We know from looking around us in our own home areas that dereliction is creating significant social and economic scars in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: There is much talk of carrots but very little talk of sticks. We have waited far too long for a vacant sites tax and some form of "use it or lose it" levy that would be applied to derelict sites. I said earlier that the dereliction we see all around us shames us. It has significant societal, social and economic impacts. The derelict sites that are available to us present a great...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: It has been a necessity.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure that the position of derelict sites officer is full-time in each local authority; the number of derelict sites officers employed in each local authority; if they are employed in a part-time or full-time capacity in tabular form; the guidance and or circulars issued by his Department to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that the position of vacant sites officer is full-time in each local authority; the number of vacant sites officers employed in each local authority; if they are employed in a part-time or full-time capacity in tabular form; the guidance and or circulars issued by his Department to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the examination by all Departments of their existing portfolio of properties; if properties have been placed on the market to date; the number of those properties that have been deemed suitable for conversion to residential accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the introduction of the new local authority-led programme for compulsory purchase orders of vacant properties for resale on the open market; the funding he is providing for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the junior certificate in view of the disruption caused to the academic year by Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2937/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of ventilation enhancements in schools; the amount of funding allocated for ventilation enhancements to date under the Enhanced Minor Works for Primary Schools and the Exceptional Minor Works Grant Funding for Post-Primary Schools, respectively; the number of schools that have received funding for ventilation enhancements to date;...