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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1368.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a Christmas bonus social welfare payment on the same basis as in December 2023 this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32723/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1375.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the cost of repeating in 2024 each one-off cost-of-living grant provided in 2023 and announced in Budget 2024, in tabular form; and to provide, for each payment, the projected number of eligible applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32731/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1369.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 to provide a cost-of-disability payment of €20 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32724/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1370.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost in 2025 of increasing the disability allowance income disregard to €205; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32725/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1371.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost in 2025 of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000 or €2,500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1372.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost in 2025 of increasing the income disregard for carer’s allowance to €625 (single) and €1,250 (couple); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1373.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected surplus (or deficit) in the social insurance fund for 2024, and each year to 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1374.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of the auto-enrolment pension scheme in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Development Projects (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1587.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a further extension for the Drogheda implementation board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32941/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1657.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of the investigations his Department is conducting regarding recent revelations covered in an RTé programme (details supplied) regarding the operation of a company in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1732.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a policy matter raised by a person (details supplied) to extend the allowable time for parental leave in all circumstances from 12 to 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30877/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1760.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 11 June 2024, when the outcome of the internal review will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31294/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 2089.To ask the Minister for Health his views on a policy matter raised by a constituent regarding compensation for clinical nurse specialists (details supplied); his plans to seek the implementation of the relevant recommendation outlined in the report of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31544/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 2435.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 26 June 2024, the number of people for each CHO area who are currently on panels awaiting appointment as HSE-employed homecare workers, to 1 July 2024; the number of additional HSE-employed homecare workers that will be directly appointed this year across all CHOs, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 2436.To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to extend the homecare support services to weekends; if he will provide a full-year costing for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32972/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the work of both his Department and the IDA on the issue of the planned closure of a plant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30099/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Minister will be well aware of Becton Dickinson's plans to close its Drogheda operation, which has been there for 60 years. I place on record my gratitude to the Minister for having met some of the local TDs, including me, last week, for his continued engagement with IDA Ireland on this matter and for meeting the trade unions and shop stewards yesterday. He might outline what he plans...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: SIPTU will respond to the Minister’s request to provide it with a submission. I am grateful he agreed to meet the trade unions, especially the shop stewards, including Trevor McGinn, who is a very impressive shop steward representing the workers at that plant. He knows the operation inside out. The concerns workers have are that they have not been given the opportunity themselves...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: It was just over two years ago that BD announced a €62 million investment in the Drogheda plant. At least in terms of its corporate communications, its proposition is that it contemplates 110 redundancies up to March next year and the additional 67 out to the fourth quarter of 2026. That is a long way away, so the case can be cogently made that market conditions can change, which we...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (11 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on his work and that of the Labour Employer Economic Forum on the transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30098/24]