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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: Well done. To be fair, the Minister does not write the headlines.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I have a couple of further questions. It was reported in an interview the Minister did with the political editor of The Irish Times at the weekend that an additional €3 billion in capital expenditure will be made available next year. That will involve the proceeds of the sale of part of the State's shares in AIB. Has a formal Government decision been made on the use of that money...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: No formal decision has been made in a memo to the Government at this time at this point on the use of that €3 billion of AIB shares.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also have a question for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. Additional resources have been made available to health for the remainder of this year. This is strictly speaking not a matter for him, but for the Minister for Health. When does he expect the Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health to be brought forward and presented to the Dáil?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: We have been reading reports this afternoon that the finance Bill will be published on 10 October. Is that the case?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: Has that already been publicly announced?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Ministers and appreciate their engagement this evening. I wish them well over the next couple of weeks. That concludes our public session. I thank the Ministers and their officials for attending; it is appreciated. I ask the remaining members to remain behind. We are due to have a brief private meeting when we exit public session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: I now invite the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: It has been deferred already.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----ought to be exempted from this. How many active farmers are we talking about?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide data on the number of holiday homes that received the Government electricity credit in the past year; the number of holiday-home meter points that were deemed ineligible under the measures introduced to exclude low-usage customers; the estimated potential cost of extending the credit to holiday homes in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the s.481 regional uplift; and if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions. [36411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider establishing a programme to provide safe passage via a humanitarian entry visa to Ireland for Palestinians in Gaza, similar to other prior international programmes (details supplied); her views on whether such a programme would provide Gazans with a safe and legal passage to Ireland through neighbouring...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications made by organisations to become section 39 bodies in 2023 and to date in 2024, including the names of the bodies; if any new section 39 arrangements have been entered into by the HSE in 2023 and to date in 2024; the names of the bodies in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the role of an organisation (details supplied) regarding the allocation of funding for higher education institutions and research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adherence to the charter of an organisation (details supplied) is a condition of funding for higher education institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36414/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if higher education institutions that fail to conform to the charter of an organisation (details supplied) to the same degree as other institutions receive less funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36415/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the alignment of research proposals with the charter of an organisation (details supplied) is a criterion considered in the decision to award funding for research; if research proposals which align more with the organisations charter experience an advantage in competitive applications for funding; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Enterprise Sector (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 866. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on the creation of a national body for social enterprise, similar to the multi-annual funding model for an organisation (details supplied); the steps she intends to take to implement this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (9 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: 241.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to cover DAA employed fire service personnel in terms of the increased retirement age from 60 to 62 for local authority firefighters under the Local Government (Superannuation) (Consolidation) (Amendment) Scheme 2024 legislated for by the Oireachtas in July; if not, will he provide the reasons; and if he will make a...