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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the construction of a project (details supplied) in County Louth; when the land will be transferred to allow the development to progress; the proposed start date for construction; the date on which the project will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24085/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (10 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the funding reduction to the Deeside school completion programme in 2014; if he is concerned at the impact of this reduction on the service; if this decision will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24653/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Information and Communications Technology Issues (5 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form amounts invoiced, allocated or assigned by her Department to other public bodies and agencies for Information Communication and Technology services for each year from 2010 to 2013 inclusive, along with amounts of any relevant cost drivers for these charges, such as numbers of users or storage capacity used or...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Projects (27 May 2014)

Gerald Nash: 558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he has decided that the LCDP measure must go to tender whereas the RDP measure will not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22920/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Gerald Nash: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the exact nature of the services the Health Service Executive intends to provide at the Bettystown Primary Care Centre, which is expected to be opened in quarter 4 of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22363/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (13 May 2014)

Gerald Nash: 651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, on a county basis and in tabular form, the number of discretionary medical cards provided to persons in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; if he will provide information on the percentage reductions year in year on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21519/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Administration (7 May 2014)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the opportunity to raise the issue of what I consider to be a glaring flaw in our student grant system, namely, the omission of illness benefit from the list of qualifying payments for the special rate student grant. As the Minister for Education and Skills is aware, this issue came to my attention through the case of Robert Kells who is currently enrolled in second year in IT...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Administration (7 May 2014)

Gerald Nash: I am aware of the all of the information provided by the Minister of State on the floor of the House this afternoon. While it addresses some issues and puts on record the situation as it applies in respect of illness benefit and its consideration in terms of the qualification criteria for the special rate grant, it is completely unsatisfactory. I am always reluctant to mention individual...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Legislation (30 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance when the relevant legislation will be enacted to allow betting shops to open on Easter Sunday; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19364/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (30 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 634. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will consider reviewing the upper service limit of 21 years in respect of privates and corporals in the Defence Forces; if he will have regard to PDFORRA's view that a new upper service limit of 50 years of age for such ranks should be introduced instead of the 21 year limit subject to fitness and medical standards; his views on the contention that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the additional space and facilities which will be made available in terms of paediatric ED services in the extension to the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18821/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (30 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently engage the Special Delivery Unit to develop a solution to the ongoing and unsustainable situation regarding patients being treated on trolleys at the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18830/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (30 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the activities of the Special Delivery Unit since 1 January 2014 in the case of all of the major emergency departments in acute hospitals across the State; if he will outline the specific objectives set down for the SDU in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18831/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned about the fact staff who work in residential care settings are consistently required to work in excess of the legal maximum 48 hours per week; if his attention has been drawn to the fact this breaches national legislation and the EU working time directive; the steps his Department and the Health Service Executive are taking to address...

Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: I wish to focus on the matter of HIQA response times which are fundamental to this motion. Response time targets were set in 2010 for HIQA. Incredibly, those targets were laid down by a Government that, extraordinarily, did not seem to have the first clue about the capacity of the ambulance service to deliver on those very targets. In other words, the then Government, including Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: That is fine. I will leave it at that for the moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: For the figures.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: Is Mr. Hogan also in a position to let us know what he received from the organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: For how long did he receive €10,000 per year?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Gerald Nash: Did that start in 2003 and end in 2008?