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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: I understand there would be a higher number of terminations outside the district. The Commissioner dealt with the issue of allegations in the public domain in respect of family members and relations of members of the Garda Síochána. Some seven identifiable family members had terminations and there was no direct link made between a family member intervening on the PULSE system and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Is it made with corroborating evidence, which is required?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: This is third-party evidence.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Commissioner and his colleagues for their contributions thus far. I want to focus for a moment on the confidential reporting mechanism that is available to members of the force. When was that mechanism first introduced?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Is the Commissioner in a position at this stage to confirm to the committee how many members of the force would have accessed that mechanism to date? This is a discussion we have had previously at the committee in a small number of cases that the process has been exercised.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Some 90% of passport applications are made through the Passport Express system. I note that one of the footnotes on programme B, on page 6, in terms of key output targets, identifies that 83% of Passport Express applications to receive passports within ten days are successful. There is a gap in that regard. I assume that the idea is that the expenditure on new technology this year will...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised)
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their presentations and for engaging with us this afternoon and I thank their officials. The living cities initiative is welcome and appears to have worked quite well in Limerick and Waterford during its pilot phase. The initiative will now be extended to other urban centres, but will the Minister elaborate on the criteria the Department has...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised)
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: That is right. She was from Faughart.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (21 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 584. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the refurbishment works at St. Joseph's, Ardee, County Louth; when same will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2295/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (15 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that school canteens providing meals on school premises are adequately regulated; his Department's current responsibilities in terms of the regulation of the school canteens system/service; if he is considering any new regulations in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55239/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency client/potential client visits that were made by the IDA to Drogheda, County Louth in the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if the IDA will engage in developing a regional manufacturing base or advance units in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1259/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 319. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency client/potential client visits that were made by the IDA to County Louth in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1260/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to increase the number of intermediate care beds at a facility (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55450/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (15 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: 804. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service is satisfied that it has sufficient resources to operate the ambulance service in the Drogheda area to the accepted international standard in terms of emergency response times; if the service is satisfied that the resources available in Drogheda are analogous to those available in similar scale population centres; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Did Mr. Tierney make a submission in respect of the treatment, or otherwise, of Irish Water in respect of freedom of information legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: As a supplementary question on performance-related bonuses, is there a performance-related bonus system that applies to all staff or staff above a certain grade or function?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Can Mr. Tierney remind the meeting how many staff will be employed directly by Irish Water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Will a staff member's entitlement to qualify for a bonus be examined by any independent organisation or individual asked to audit it? Will the decision be made internally by Irish Water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Gerald Nash: I will seamlessly move on from Senator Ó Murchú's point and he nailed it in pointing out that a very full and frank communication of all these issues previously would have obviated the need for a hearing such as this. I hope Mr. Tierney and his colleagues would admit that public confidence in Irish Water is crucial to its legitimacy, particularly when we are attempting to seek...