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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school building will be provided at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28465/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: As a socialist, I support the concept of a tax on property. I always have.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Rates should never have been abolished as they were in 1977 when Fianna Fail bought an election and drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Little did we know that 30 years later it would finally accomplish the trick. Had we had a property tax in place then, we might have tempered the insane property bubble which dragged our economy into ruins. We were the only country in Europe...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: There has always been one in Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin happily collects £1,000 sterling on ordinary three-bedroom semis just across the Border from my constituency.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: Of course, Sinn Féin will tell us that a whole range of services are received in return, with exceptions. Free bin collection - I do not think so. In the North there is no automatic entitlement to free school uniforms, buses, or school meals as Sinn Féin would have us believe. While there are grants and exemptions which can be applied for by social welfare recipients, the rates...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: It is amazing. Why is that? Perhaps, it is because in the North, as the Minister pointed out, Sinn Féin is in power. It has to govern and cannot get away with the kind of populist spoofing its members engage in down here. This fact is at the very heart of the monumental con-job the legislation before us represents. Leaving aside the ludicrous conflicts between Sinn Féin's...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: I will try to use some lines which the Minister may have used. The legislation before us tonight is an absolute con-job of the highest order. If Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors up and down the country really believed that this tax should be abolished, then they would have steadfastly refused to pay it. I applaud those Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors who accept that taxes...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: In my opinion, Sinn Féin can have their brand of mock patriotism if all it involves is using every tired trick in their play book to tear asunder the hard-won stability in the public finances on which families up and down this country depend. It is amusing to find a common policy platform shared by Sinn Féin and the populist king of Bunga Bunga, Silvio Berlusconi. Both want to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Education and Training Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the criteria used in establishing the suitability of candidates for inclusion on momentum programme courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tax Clearance Certificates (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 641. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is considering taking measures to prohibit those who do not qualify for tax clearance certificates from the Revenue Commissioners from taking their seats as elected members of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 854. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Health Service Executive will appoint an inspector for developmental aspects of childcare facilities for the Louth area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27364/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 855. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare facilities private and public in County Louth inspected in each of the last four years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the Health Service Executive; if she will provide the names of the facilities which have been inspected; if she will provide the information in tabular format; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 856. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare facilities private and public in County Meath inspected in each of the past four years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the Health Service Executive; if she will provide the names of the facilities which have been inspected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27368/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 1010. To ask the Minister for Health when patients transferred from the recently closed leg ulcer clinic in Slane, County Meath, will be given appointment dates for the clinic at its new location in Duleek; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27613/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Gerald Nash: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health the National Ambulance Service's plans for the roll out of intermediate care vehicles in Drogheda; the process for the engagement of personnel to operate the service; if recruitment arrangements are currently open regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27928/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I wish to share time with Deputies Arthur Spring, Ann Phelan and Seán Kenny.

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I am glad of the opportunity publicly to welcome this Bill. It contains many measures which are long overdue and which were, unfortunately, overlooked or ignored for many years by previous Administrations. One area of the Bill deals specifically with jobseeker's payments to retained firefighters. This is a subject of particular interest to me. It has been raised with me on many occasions...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: They got a bargain.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: That is nonsense.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Have all the Office of Public Works, OPW, staff who were due to move to Trim now moved?