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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the provision of continuous glucose monitoring sensors for a person in Meath (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38484/24]

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party welcomes the Bill. Much of what it contains aligns with the comprehensive submission we made in reference to access to cash in the context of the banking review a couple of years ago. We are happy to support the Bill and its principles. There are elements that we are concerned about and that we will tease these out on Committee Stage, but the premise of the Bill is sound....

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: We want a happy Minister of State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Tánaiste. I disagree with him. The problem is a lack of ambition and a lack of vision. That has been the consistent pattern here from what I describe as a very conservative coalition. Ireland is a rich country, but the Government presides over on that continues to feel poor. I want to put one key question to the Tánaiste on the status of the residential zoned...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: It has not introduced an actual tax.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: They can have the land rezoned.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: Will it be resolved?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: In five day's time we will have the annual budget. True to form, most of the major announcements will be leaked over the weekend. The State is in an unprecedented situation. Billions are available to invest yet there is a poverty of ambition and no vision. We live in a rich country that feels so poor. It is a country of winners and losers. Ireland has a chronic infrastructural deficit....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the projected cost in 2025 of revenue foregone, if plans to impose a capital gains tax liability on the transfer of family-owned businesses worth in excess of €10 million were not to proceed in the manner in which it is currently planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38342/24]

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party is happy to support the Bill. I will not use my full 20 minutes. It took three Sinn Féin members to use 20 minutes. In any case, it is, as Deputy O'Reilly says, largely a technical Bill. That being said, there are elements of this legislation that are critically important in terms of the practical implications of running a business and the streamlining of how...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full cost to the Exchequer from 2026 to 2029 as a result of the changes he proposes to make to the standard fund threshold in respect of pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regeneration Projects (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has, to date, decided not to extend the living cities initiative to Drogheda and Dundalk; if he plans to do so in Budget 2025 and the forthcoming finance Bill; if he will provide an estimate of the annual cost of extending the initiative to these County Louth towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is concerned that there are insufficient places available in second-level schools in County Louth this year for children with additional needs; her plans to provide additional places in second-level schools in Louth for the 2025-2026 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Louth who have additional needs and who have no place in a second-level school in the county; her plans to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education classes attached to mainstream schools in County Louth; the names of the schools concerned; the number of students accommodated in such classes in each school; the number of children in County Louth in special classes in mainstream schools in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when work will commence on the Ardee bypass; the timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37285/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department received a feasibility study application from Louth County Council in connection with the proposed development of phase three of the port access northern cross route in north Drogheda (the phase of the road crossing the Dublin to Belfast railway line); the support that will be provided by his Department for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the decision to relocate beneficiaries of temporary protection from the Franciscan Friary and Dominican Friary, Drogheda, to Drumcar County Louth; the reason the Franciscan and Dominican friaries will no longer be used to house beneficiaries of temporary protection; if his Department has plans...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (24 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 473. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to review the threshold for the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37491/24]

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: As soon as the Apple judgment was announced, we in Labour called for statements and a debate in this House on this very important matter. The position is now final but it is disappointing we do not have enough time to debate this very important issue and the ramifications of it. In summary, the ECJ has found that a tax advantage provided to Apple by way of the 1991 and separate 2007 rulings...