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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including a medical product (details supplied) on the list of reimbursable items; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23733/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (21 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: 618. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including Addison's disease to the list under the terms of the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23743/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: There is much concern for Our Lady's Hospital.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this technical Bill. Housing, and public housing in particular, has been of concern to me for some time and was one of the core reasons for my entry into public life 14 years ago. Having a place to call home involves much more than bricks and mortar. It involves building communities. We spend so much money each year bailing out private...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Indeed, and some of the most responsible citizens.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: By building local authority houses we also give people the aspiration to own their own homes, which is important. If we are to build a series of local authority housing developments we need to be sure to ring-fence the proceeds of those sales to ensure we continue to reinvest in replenishing and replacing the local authority housing stock that we are removing. I accept and appreciate the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Who are those individuals?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Would Ms Moylan say the staff of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, and perhaps other board members, were somewhat in awe of some of the individuals such as Sean FitzPatrick, Lar Bradshaw and others because of their expertise - quote, unquote - in the area. Has Ms Moylan ever experienced that feeling with regard to those individuals or has she identified that feeling in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Reference was made earlier to the 2010 code of practice for public servants on various boards, which is a governance structure, but is it correct to say that does not apply to commercial semi-State organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: It is still the case that the protocol has not been updated to include commercial semi-State companies.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: That is very important. We appreciate the witnesses' evidence today and the circumstances around that. It would be valuable if others would make themselves available to allow us complete that circle. The witnesses should not be disadvantaged by virtue of their public office, which requires them to appear here when others who are not required to attend can decide not to appear. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Did Ms Moylan ever feel conflicted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: In regard to the tender bid and again I refer Ms Moylan to the minutes of the incorporeal meeting of 24 October, point 8.1 of which states: "However recognising the expertise and experience of Bernard McNamara and if he had some additional information which convinced him that the bid should increased, then the Board agreed that Mr. McNamara could be allowed to increase the bid as he saw fit...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: In the context of Ms Moylan's role in the Department as a member of its senior management team, she would have been aware of concerns about the property market and of the knowledge the Department would have had that the market was overheating. There are indications in the documentation we have to suggest that advice was offered to the board that the market was overheating. One would not...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I refer to the references to the declarations of interest in the minutes of the meeting, which have been comprehensively covered by Deputy Donohoe. The position on that appears bizarre and incredulous. It is akin to Lannigan's Ball where Sean FitzPatrick and Lar Bradshaw stepped in and then stepped out, and Declan McCourt stepped out again. We identified that and discussed it at a previous...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: That is not the way we see it and how the public would see it. How does Ms Moylan feel about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: We know now that they were not the entrepreneurial geniuses they led us to understand at the time but in any event, as Ms Moylan correctly pointed out, these are people who were considered to be experts in the area and their record spoke for itself. They were people with considerable experience and expertise and at that time had a long and considerably successful record in property...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I welcome Ms Moylan, Ms Tallon and their colleagues. I must admit I am on the same page as Ms Tallon with regard to completing this circle. I thank Ms Moylan for being as frank as she possibly can be, under the circumstances. We will not be able to complete the picture in the absence of evidence from other individuals named. At our previous effort to examine these issues, I had requested...