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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of mechanical ventilation for schools in view of Covid-19, current ventilation guidelines regarding the opening of windows and the expected drop in temperatures during the winter months; if financial resources are available for schools wishing to install mechanical ventilation; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional places will be provided at a school (details supplied) in view of the demand for first year places for the 2021/2022 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36409/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the Louth Meath Education and Training Board to provide immediate comprehensive support to an organisation (details supplied) by making a suitable building temporarily available in order that the board can open a Gaelcholáiste in County Louth in time for children to register for September 2021; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence Services (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under Budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPSN will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under Budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37124/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under Budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37130/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under Budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37133/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the status of partners who wish to attend maternity care; if clarity will be provided on same; the status of water births under level 5 restrictions at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36407/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 863. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid to each general practitioner and practice in CHO 8 in 2018 and 2019 for the treatment of medical card patients under the GMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37110/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who in previous years received the flu jab are unable to obtain it in spite of Covid-19; his views on whether the decision to acquire only 20% more doses of the flu jab compared with 2019 was short-sighted given, for example, that the UK has sought to double the number of persons vaccinated in 2020;...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 913. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the nature of the funding relationship between an organisation (details supplied) and Pobal; if the funding relationship remains in place; if Pobal is satisfied that all the recommendations contained in the verification report carried out by the agency in 2017 into expenditure funded under the community services programme have been...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I agree with Deputy Doherty. The status of the pandemic unemployment payment and the legal basis for it should not have attracted taxation and we should not be using the Bill to address this problem that the Minister, as he sees it, has identified. I wholeheartedly support Deputy Doherty's contention in this regard.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I do not want to run the risk of repeating everything Deputies have mentioned previously. My concerns about the scheme are well documented. I referred to them in my response to the Minister's budget speech. The Labour Party has been long on the record as opposing this kind of initiative. It is an ineffective and ineffectual use of scant taxpayers' resources. As other Deputies pointed out,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I concur with Deputy Farrell. More significant work needs to be done to improve and enhance the pay and working conditions of Defence Forces members if we are to value the contribution they make to our security and society more broadly. I will be interested to hear what the Minister has to say in that regard. Turning to the amendment, there is significant potential to make working from...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: Was it not the case that we needed to dispose of amendment No. 129 before we went on to section 11?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I wish to indicate we will formally withdraw the amendment later.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Chairman. I wish to refer to Deputy Barry’s amendment. The CRSS is similar to the TWSS and EWSS, which is a very significant use and investment of State resources in the private sector. Yet again, we have failed to use this opportunity to drive better outcomes for working people. It is fairly routine across Europe when investments and state interventions of this nature...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: There are opportunities here that we ought to use to try to drive better social and economic outcomes in light of the level of investment the State is undertaking in the private sector at the moment. I refer to two amendments to which Deputy Doherty also made general reference earlier. Amendment No. 21 in my name has been ruled out of order. It relates to enabling businesses that do not...