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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of women and men, respectively, enrolled and participating on each of the 57 apprenticeship programmes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices aged 16 to 17, 18 to 21, 22 to 24, 25 to 29 and over 30 years of age in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28662/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the introduction of a national access to apprenticeship programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28663/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided to local and regional drugs task forces, in particular to deal with the impact of Covid-19, in budget 2021 and in line with the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister. He is in an elevated position today, though I know he would never dream of talking down to anybody. The Parliamentary Budget Office figures we have looked at and the Parliamentary Budget Office commentary that arrived on our desks over the last couple of days suggest that a further €7 billion in public spending will be made this year additional to what was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: The Minister spoke about vulnerabilities and the expectations for the kinds of services that we ought to provide in this country. A degree of consensus is building about some of the lessons that have been learned about where there are gaps in public services as a result of the pandemic and how we have responded to it, as well as about the need to improve our public services, particularly our...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (30 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if the IDA is working to identify a client company to occupy a plant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27682/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I assure the Minister that I am not throwing cheap, political potshots at the Minister and his Government colleagues on the appointment of a raft of special advisers for junior Ministers. I do not believe it is in my nature to do so and the Minister may know this. The Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: Will the Minister clarify for the record that he does not have any plans to sanction the approval of or appoint any additional advisers? I believe that 64 is more than enough. During the 2011-16 Government the country was in the mire and battling for its very survival and it had 30-plus advisers. For a country with 15 Cabinet Ministers, a Chief Whip, a super junior Minister and probably...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: As a Minister of State, not as a super junior Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the appointment of ten special advisers for Ministers of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26735/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: Ahead of the announcement of the July stimulus, the Government decided to appoint teams of special advisers to the offices of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I described it at the time as the Government parties' very own job creation initiative, or a July stimulus for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. In the week that the pandemic...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: There is widespread relief this afternoon at the figures contained in the Department's outlook published today. In April, it was predicted that GDP would crash by 10.5%, whereas the figures published today suggest instead that it will shrink by 2.5% only, a significant figure but one we can accommodate. Worryingly, unemployment will be 2% higher than forecast at the peak of the first wave...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his views on the pre-budget statement from an organisation (details supplied); his views on the need for a multi-year stimulus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26797/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent Central Bank report on household wealth; his views on the growth in the net wealth of the top 20% of households from €560,000 to €853,000; and if he will consider adjusting taxation measures to increase revenue from the top 10% quintile of households to help fund the Covid-19 recovery. [26798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he plans to avail of the favourable debt dynamics as cited in the recent Central Bank Governor’s pre-Budget letter; his views on the need to retain a long-term perspective regarding the social return from high-quality public investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for involvement of social partners to ensure the effective oversight and implementation of taxpayer funded support to businesses via the employment wage subsidy scheme; if he has examined the operation of such schemes in Germany and other EU countries; if not, if a commitment will be given to doing so in the context of the promise of a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the Central Bank Governor's pre-budget letter; his views on whether the need for prudent use of public funds must be ensured to the largest extent possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26739/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his discussion with Ministers in advance of budget 2021 and the National Economic Plan; his views on whether Departments should seek to ensure public expenditure induces progressive structural changes that achieve long-term savings for the Exchequer such as the diagnostic hubs and community clinical hubs proposed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific oversight measures and metrics he is considering to ensure an economic, social and environmental return from pandemic related stimulus spending; if he has held discussion with Ministers regarding the importance of ensuring that spending generates a high social return for the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on...