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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is a reasonable assessment, as I understand it, of the Minister's interpretation of the engagement on this in the Seanad. It was, as he correctly pointed out, an attempt by Senators Wall and Moynihan to ensure that lessons that have been drawn from the SHD process could be applied to this process. It is deeply frustrating, in all our communities and constituencies, when we see...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased we are having this debate. It is more than timely. To the best of my recollection, although I have not checked the transcripts of the debate on the previous Bill, we did not have this conversation three years ago. That is unfortunate. It is a conversation we should have had in this Chamber, but it appears we did not. The fact we are doing so now is illustrative of the degree...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the updated national mitigation plan and the national adaptation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58684/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements that can be made to provide a temporary permission to leave and return to this country to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were on each children's disability services' caseload in June 2021 by county; the number of children's cases which were reviewed and discharged from each children's disability services to date in 2021 by county; the number of families consulted either in person or through online video call as stakeholders and advocates for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the services now available to children with disabilities who are not on the caseload of the new children's disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58784/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physical therapy and behavioural support, respectively; the number of professionals employed directly by the HSE for each service in each CNT in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58785/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: Like my colleague the Labour Party housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, I want to give this Bill a cautious but qualified welcome. Any initiative designed to expedite the development of much-needed homes across the country, especially in urban areas where demand is high, is welcome. We would all agree on that. The theory was that the SHD legislation passed by the previous Oireachtas was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his officials last met formally with members of an association (details supplied); the actions agreed at the meeting; if he will provide an update on plans by his Department to agree a framework within which a potential revised dental treatment services scheme may be agreed with dental service providers; his views on whether an independent...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I again want to raise with the Minister the need for a Covid-19 testing centre and vaccination centre in Drogheda. The Minister knows the incidence rates in Drogheda are again the highest in the State. One in 40 have tested positive and it is one in 20 if we take a 28-day perspective, yet there is still no testing centre in Drogheda - no permanent centre and no pop-up facility. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 707. To ask the Minister for Health if a site (details supplied) is in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 708. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 27 January, the status of plans by the HSE to provide a new base for the ambulance service in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57632/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 709. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to provide a facility in Drogheda, County Louth to ensure the swift roll-out of the Covid-19 booster shots to the population in Drogheda, south Louth and east Meath; when such a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (23 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 710. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a permanent Covid-19 testing centre in Drogheda, County Louth, given the high rate of infection in the community and the fact that the area frequently features in the list of areas affected by higher than average rates of infection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57634/21]

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: I am very pleased to speak on this very progressive Bill. I acknowledge the lead role played by our colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, in its genesis, in addition to the work Deputy Bacik has done on it to date. As we know, climate change is the single most important challenge of our time. It is existential and beyond urgent, though one wonders if that reality has dawned on many of those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application will be submitted to Meath County Council for the planned permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to formally include schools (details supplied) as DEIS band one schools in the context of the recent review by her Department of the DEIS scheme; the timeline for the implementation of the recommendations of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56333/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: With respect, that reply is the kind of “blah, blah, blah” that Greta Thunberg has accused others of. We must be more precise and how we describe this. I am interested in establishing exactly what kind of metrics the Minister’s Department is going to apply in respect of approving those projects that will be significant in allowing us to meet our carbon reduction and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide information on planned changes to the public spending code against which proposals from Departments and State agencies will be appraised in respect of the need to comply with the aims of the climate action plan and sectoral carbon budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54955/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (16 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: We cannot legally meet the binding targets of net zero unless we radically change how we do things. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is the parent Department for the national development plan, which he has stated will see us spending an additional €116 billion over the next ten years, during its lifetime, on major infrastructural projects. The legal, moral and...