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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;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the land on which a permanent building for a school (details supplied) will be built has been transferred from the current owner; when a planning application for the proposed permanent building will be submitted to Meath County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed amendment to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 to remove disincentives against the rental of vacant properties by participants in the fair deal scheme; the way that appropriate safeguards for vulnerable older persons will be incorporated into that amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3281/22]

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: I do not intend to take the 20 minutes available to me.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: This is it.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Sometimes you do not know when you take off where you will land. That is the case, I think, with most Members of this House, and that is meant with all due respect. Deputy Gould is absolutely right about the preventative maintenance budgets of our local authorities. If we do not address that issue, we store up more trouble, ensuring that maintenance, building control and so on become bigger...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: What are the Minister's priorities for 2022? Where does he want to see real progress? He has said that there will be milestones along the way and they have to be reported and monitored by the European Commission. What are the priority projects for 2022? How does the Minister see progress evolving this year? The timeframe for the delivery of these projects is tight. My understanding...