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

Gerald Nash: The final figure was €127 million, which is the statutory limit of what the authority could conceivably borrow.

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

Gerald Nash: Who was the Minister at that time?

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

Gerald Nash: Ms Moylan and the Minister did not engage directly on 24 October.

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

Gerald Nash: I ask Ms Moylan to correct me if I am mistaken but I believe she expressed regret in her statement that she had not been in direct discussions with the Minister on that particular occasion. Hindsight is 20-20 vision. Does Ms Moylan still regret that she did not have that discussion with the Minister, even though, as far as she is concerned, she was complying with the general approach taken...

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

Gerald Nash: In circumstances like this, is there not a conflict between the fiduciary responsibilities of a company director, and the company director's responsibility to the shareholders and to the board, and the role of a public servant, particularly a public servant who has direct line of responsibility for the areas that are being considered by that company?

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

Gerald Nash: Agreed.

Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Provision (1 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for his reply; we are on the same page on this. Those who represent staff in the ambulance control centres, particularly SIPTU, are very concerned about patient safety. They have raised concerns about the move to this interim facility in recent days. The Minister of State remarked that based on current known variables, the moves to the Tallaght and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I welcome Mr. Cotter and thank him for his presentation. I apologise for arriving late but I read his statement. It is fair to say that Ireland and the USA, from a business, social and cultural perspective, as well as a range of other perspectives, have a remarkably positive relationship, and long may it last. I was encouraged last week by some of the comments made by David Marcus of...

Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Provision (1 May 2013)

Gerald Nash: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise the proposed interim move of the Navan, Cork and Kerry ambulance control centres into one unit to be housed at the facility at Townsend Street in Dublin. The plans to create two new state-of-the-art control centres in Tallaght and Ballyshannon to manage all national emergency calls is very laudable and it is in accordance with international best...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used for the selection of persons employed to correct written leaving certificate exam papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20322/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (24 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available through the Health Service Executive to the Orthodontic unit of Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, to allow them to treat grade four orthodontic cases and below; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19180/13]

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: Fianna Fáil's sheer brass neck never ceases to amaze me. As outlined by the Minister, Fianna Fáil and its leader do not come to this issue with a clean pair of hands. The party that had no compunction in unilaterally slashing the pay of public sector workers is now attempting to pose as the new best friend of the public service. Its hope that the Irish people and public sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate Mr. O'Herlihy again on his impending, I hope, appointment as chairman of the Irish Film Board. He is eminently qualified for the role and I wish him every success. Like Senator Mac Conghail, I am declaring my interest in that I am a director of a film company. I am not entirely sure and cannot recall the level of funding we might have received in the past from the IFB but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (18 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the Health Service Executive plans to expand the Emergency Department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18087/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Foreign Affairs Councils: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (17 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister. I know that he welcomed the opportunity to visit Turkey last week and to enhance trade and cultural relations with Turkey. He has acknowledged the important role that Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq are playing in the Syrian crisis and in accommodating refugees from Syria. I thank those countries too. I recently visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, which...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: Although it is ten or 11 years ago, I remember as if it was yesterday sitting in the then meeting rooms of the Drogheda area women's network at Rope Walk in Drogheda, listening to up to a dozen women telling me and the then Sinn Féin Deputy, Arthur Morgan, of their horrendous experience of symphysiotomy. Until that meeting I had never heard of that barbaric procedure and I was...

Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Ríordáin.

Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: In the 1930s and 1940s Ireland was a country replete with contradictions. An achingly conservative and insular theocracy, it was a State in its infancy working to assert itself in the early years of independence. In the shadow of a former colonial ruler, there was an almost pervasive and deep-seated resentment of, and antipathy towards, Britain which was held by a substantial proportion of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that AIB is actively rehiring former staff who left the organisation under the terms of early retirement and severance schemes despite the fact that these schemes prevented former staff who left from returning to the bank for a period of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16630/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the number of methadone dispensing level two general practitioners across the country, broken down by Health Service Executive region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16108/13]