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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: 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...

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...