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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,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the renewal of a driver licence will be expedited due to exceptional circumstances in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28267/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the potential negative impact on the movement of Irish freight within and outside the EU due to a disorderly Brexit; and his plans to address the matter. [28635/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Preparations (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capacity on direct routes to continental ports and the contingency capacity should additional support be needed due to a disorderly Brexit; his plans for sourcing additional capacity if required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28636/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Preparations (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views relating to the sole reliance on the privately run and owned shipping sector in the case of a disorderly Brexit; his views on whether the Government should intervene to create a semi-State shipping sector in view of the fact this is a vital link in the supply chain here that is not in public hands; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Preparations (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the creation of a semi-State shipping sector as opposed to the current private monopoly will help guarantee the delivery of goods and services and safeguard the economic viability of Ireland, which is dependent on the ability to trade effectively. [28638/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Correspondence (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of all correspondence between an association (details supplied) and his Department, including offices of all Ministers of State under the aegis of his Department, from 1 June 2017 to the 30 September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28313/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Defence Forces Remuneration (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of pay structures of the medium term project being led by his Department relating to the high level plan Strengthening Our Defence Forces; the status of the medium term project; the deadline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28641/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Youth Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has taken to date and the proposed timeframe for the development and completion of a national youth homelessness strategy, as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28664/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has taken to date and the proposed timeframe for the development and establishment of the electoral commission as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28665/20]