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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (20 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the necessary legislation will be drafted to remove international student insurance from the remit of health insurance providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31287/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which the home of a person (details supplied) will be connected to high-speed broadband under the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30775/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Contracts (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if a bank (details supplied) has been awarded State contracts in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30814/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance outcome of his recent meeting with a bank (details supplied), in particular the outcome of his conversation with the bank regarding the recent statement by its parent company that it was reviewing the position of the bank in the market here; if he has seen the terms of reference for the review; and if he has further meetings planned. [30815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Codes of Conduct (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank plans to update the code of practice governing bank branch closures (details supplied) that would ensure that, at a minimum, an impact assessment is carried out that would include among other things extending the notice period of branch closures to six months and inserting a 12 month notice of closure for a branch that is the last...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Codes of Conduct (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if the recent actions of a bank (details supplied) in closing four branches are in compliance with provision 3.12 of the 2012 consumer protection code; his views that the consumer protection code should be updated to protect staff and consumers that rely on branch banking including consumers in areas with poor broadband connectivity. [30817/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legal ownership of open green areas in estates that have been taken over by a respective local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30820/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which a decision will be made on an application made by workers of a company (details supplied) for casual docket jobseekers while they were in receipt of temporary wage subsidy scheme support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30819/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if banks will be added to the list of workplaces in which the wearing of face masks is mandatory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30818/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a response will issue to a query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (14 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of an increase of €2.50 per week or €20 to the household benefits package to allay the cost of broadband for persons over 70 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30428/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: We have known deadly disease on our island before. In the 1800s, the Great Hunger saw millions emigrate or die of famine, diphtheria, cholera, fever and smallpox. In the last century, TB or consumption destroyed thousands of lives. It may be folk memory now, but its legacy lingers on. It took the vision of a socialist, Deputy Noël Browne, to deliver the infrastructure and the drive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which documentation will be issued relating to confirmation of service requested by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30228/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent turf cutting and removal of same in the Carlingford Mountain special area of conservation, just south of Clermont Carn on Black Mountain (details supplied); the action he proposes to take to identify those involved; the measures he will put in place to prevent a recurrence of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will commit to fast-tracking the building of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); the stage at which the development is at; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that applications for places in first year for the 2020/2021 school year vastly exceeded the places that were made available; and if...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister and I wish him well in his deliberations over the next few days. The question may have been asked already while I was on the way down from my office but we are all interested to hear the Minister's views on the planned expansion to the national development plan and the additional resources he hopes to make available to deliver on some commitments. Will the Minister...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: What were the lessons learned from the children's hospital cost overrun scenario? How can the Minister apply those lessons to the NDP review?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is on record and has spoken to this committee as well about the need for a €10 billion fiscal stimulus to be available to the economy over the next five years. Does the Minister agree with that suggestion and does he agree that that is the quantum of money required to meet the demands over the next four to five years and peaks and troughs we may...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: I am sorry for interrupting but this is directly related to the question. Some people may confuse the idea of stimulus fund with national economic recovery fund. Are they interchangeable terms? Is it the same thing?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: We know and the Minister knows that business thrives on certainty and these are extremely uncertain times. One way we could give businesses some certainty that they could keep their doors open and assist them with their labour costs is to extend the form of the wage subsidy scheme beyond the expiry date of next March. Would the Minister agree with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe,...