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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Perhaps Mr. Purcell has figures for the numbers of cases taken on by the Insolvency Service of Ireland.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: There is quite a significant figure of €2.7 million allocated under a non-pay heading for the establishment of the Insolvency Service of Ireland. Is Mr. Purcell in a position to inform the committee, for example, of the level of external consultancies taken on by the Department or the insolvency service when it was being set up? A sum of €2.7 million under a non-pay heading...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I will move on to the Magdalen fund which was established to facilitate the making of ex-gratiapayments to those who were in those institutions some time ago. How many applications have been made to date to the fund to access ex-gratiapayments? How many formal offers have been accepted and how many payments have issued to date to the women concerned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Can Mr. Purcell remind me what was set aside for this ex-gratiapayment scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Of which more than €8 million has been accessed at this stage.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: At one stage, there were discussions on setting up a dedicated unit and having a hotline for those who wished to find out information on how to access the scheme. Has this been instituted at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Mr. Purcell has mentioned ongoing issues in relation to health care. Can he be more explicit about what this involves and what the concerns are?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I welcome Mr. Purcell and his colleagues, and also the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, to the committee. As the witnesses will the aware, this committee has been examining the issue of penalty points and fixed-charge penalty notice cancellations for some time. I think it is fair to say from our own examination of the issue that confidence in the justice...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: What is the timeframe involved given, that there is an urgency in respect of this issue on foot of the reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and the Garda Síochána Inspectorate? There is a need to restore the confidence that has lost in the system recently due to the consistent breaches of policy uncovered by the Garda inspectorate, which is detailed in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Can you be specific? Which recommendations are already under way?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I am quite astonished at the scant information we received. We have been waiting nigh on two weeks for this information. It is not necessarily informed by the fact Rehab officials could not locate the information; it is more informed by them finding the best way to present it to minimise the damage done to the organisation. I wish to move onto the consultancy work Mr. Flannery did for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claimants receiving rent supplement payments in counties Louth and Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations Upgrade (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and the National Transport Authority will seek to have Dunleer train station reopened to serve communities in the mid-Louth area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12580/14]

Topical Issues: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (12 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his detailed response. I am aware that the numbers awaiting admission have reduced dramatically in the past 24 hours. It is due to the work of nursing staff, doctors and hospital management that these serious inroads are being made. Earlier today I contacted the INMO to arrange a meeting to discuss this problem, which concerns the wider community in Drogheda,...

Topical Issues: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (12 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: The situation in the accident and emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda requires the immediate attention of the HSE and the Department of Health. The Minister will know from our various conversations over the past three years that I am proud of my local hospital. I am proud of its staff and I know the staff quite rightly take great pride in the service they...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (6 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: The reason I raised this issue is because I have seen the direct impact on two families in Drogheda and Galway whom I know very well. The way in which the community in Drogheda has responded has, like other communities across the country, been phenomenal in terms of fund raising and the staff who provide the treatment regimen in Crumlin are a credit to the health service. However, I raise...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (6 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for being in the Chamber to respond to this issue. Alice Turner, Drogheda; Clodagh Daly, County Laois; Robin Smith, Dublin; Merryn Lacy, Bray; and Donal Parsons, Sligo, are infants affected by neuroblastoma. The first time most Irish people heard about this dreadful illness was when Lily-Mae Morrison, the "tiny dancer" from Galway, and her family captured...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: Chancer.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (6 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the proposed revised legislative framework in respect of registered employment agreements and in response to the May 2013 Supreme Court judgment McGowan and others versusThe Labour Court, Ireland and the Attorney General; if he intends to publish legislation soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Ukrainian Ambassador (5 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: I welcome H.E. Mr. Sergii Reva and his colleague to our meeting. I commend the restrained and measured response shown by the Ukrainian State in the face of extraordinary aggression from the Russian Federation. It is clear to me that the Russian Federation and President Putin feel threatened by the demands made by the Ukrainian people in terms of constitutional reform, liberal democracy and...