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Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Do these people understand why?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Deputy Martin was owned by the banks.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (26 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 224. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to establish a protected title of creative arts therapists in the Health Service Executive; if he intends to bring the profession under the aegis of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 in the interests of the profession and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30960/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30118/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (25 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a final review following an appeal being upheld in respect of payment of a higher education grant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (25 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of the decision not to award a higher education grant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth on the basis that they were not attending a full time course when the college had provided confirmation that the course is in fact full time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30274/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I seek a proposal for a nomination to the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: As we have a quorum of six members including one Teachta Dála and one Seanadóir, we will commence the meeting. I wish to advise members they must turn off their mobile telephones when attending committee meetings. Active mobile telephones interfere with the sound system and RTE has informed us that it will not broadcast any part of the meeting where interference from mobile...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I recall from reading media reports at the time between August and September 2009, around the period SIPTU got the report, that certain information was put into the public domain. Did Mr. O'Flynn find he was at a disadvantage in terms of explaining SIPTU's position or his understanding of the position in the absence of that information? An interpretation I might put on it is that he was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I have a couple of points which I will make quickly. I welcome Mr. O’Flynn. I support the comments made by Deputy Harris that we have often had situations in this committee where organisations and individuals who are under no obligation to be present as they are not members of public agencies, decline to attend even though it would greatly assist the work of the committee and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Did the fund administrator not notify Mr. O’Flynn, as general secretary of the union, that he was involved in an investigation or audit into the administration of this particular fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Is the first time Mr. O’Flynn became aware of it when he was contacted by Dr. Geraldine Smith who was heading up the HSE audit investigation team and the contact was made in September 2009?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I have been closely monitoring this issue for some time and I am very interested in some of the reportage around it; whether that is in light of the examination of this committee or between committee meetings. Is Mr. O’Flynn happy with the co-operation he received from the HSE when he went to it seeking information in an attempt to get to the bottom of the issue? Mr. O’Flynn...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: What was the time lapse from the point of the first contact with the HSE and when Mr. O’Flynn got a copy of the HSE internal audit report?

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: While there may be a sincere motive behind this motion, I have noticed over the last two evenings that much of the debate is laced with charges of political heresy against the Labour Party. When held up to scrutiny, those charges made and the charges inferred in this motion do not stand up to the slightest of scrutiny. Few of those Members opposite who moved this motion and who come into...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposad commencement date for a school building project (details supplied) in County Louth; the timeframe for completion of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (18 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 328. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the site of the old fishmeal factory at Crook Road, Mornington, County Meath, is secured; if he will outlime his Department's plans to make this site safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28908/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I am fully with Deputy Nolan's remarks. I found part of this process useful and the other section is as clear as mud and has created more issues, I am afraid to say. It is very damaging that any inference would go out - and that impression was being tried to be created - that Deputies who happen to members of Government parties are somehow being got at by Ministers. We all know and accept...