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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]

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

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information in relation to the most up to date figures regarding waiting lists for methadone clinics; if he will provide figures in relation to the average number of months involved in waiting to access a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16109/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health when an orthopaedic outpatients appointment at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15819/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a cost-benefit analysis for the introduction of tax breaks or other forms of incentives to support local micro-breweries and distilleries; if he will consider such a move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15106/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on progress made in her Department in considering the issue of social welfare supports for the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14893/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on progress made in her Department in considering the issue of social welfare supports for the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14893/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when construction work will commence on the new Drogheda courthouse; when the courthouse will be open and fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14742/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreign Conflicts (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has raised the issue of the treatment of Palestinian children by the Israel military justice system in the West Bank at his recent meeting with the Israeli Justice Minister designate on his recent visit to that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14942/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Access (26 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the ante natal clinics in Dundalk and Navan are being discontinued; if he is concerned about the impact of these changes on disadvantaged women and those who do not have access to frequent public transport; if he is satisfied that the decision is in keeping with Health Service Executive service plan commitments to local access to safe and high quality...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: The new arrangements provided for in budget 2013 to address Government spending for medical card schemes could be viewed as an important marker for how we distribute scarce resources in a fairer and more equitable fashion. It is clear that a balance must be struck between protecting the most vulnerable members of society while also being mindful that those who can afford to carry more of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (20 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive remarks on the structure of the scheme. I understand the regulation under which the scheme operates and that there are certain restrictions. It is a good, necessary scheme which has worked very well in recent years. The Minister of State said that some discretionary assistance is made available on a case by case basis but that should be...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (20 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: I wish to question why current guidelines for the HSE treatment abroad scheme do not cover the costs of accommodation, baggage or travel agent fees for the travel companion of a patient who is unable to travel alone. I find it very perplexing that under current structures an individual who is unable to travel alone cannot receive financial support for the baggage, accommodation or travel...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Provision (20 Mar 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 will receive an assessment for behavioural issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13639/13]