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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Fatigue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: As a Deputy who represents members of the Defence Forces, I am struck by Mr. Rooney’s reference to the reliance of personnel on family income supplement. The Oireachtas needs to reflect on that. If a decision was taken to remove the Border allowance or any other allowance that, in my opinion, forms part of core pay, does Mr. Rooney agree it would be a false economy because...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: I am asking for the view of PDFORRA because it deals with these matters on a daily basis.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: We have discussed the reorganisation and changing role of the Defence Forces. Do the representative organisations believe there is a compelling case for consolidating the allowances that have built up over the years into a reformed pay structure? I ask them to identify pitfalls for their members in such an approach.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Nobody went AWOL.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: Nobody has gone AWOL or at least from the perspective of this allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: There are many people under a great deal of pressure at present.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances (18 Oct 2012) Gerald Nash: I, too, welcome the representatives of the representative organisations and Mr. Howard and his colleagues for this important discussion. It never ceases to amaze me the low level of pay enjoyed by privates in particular, and often how long it takes somebody to reach the middle of the scale. It is important to look at the discussions that we are having this morning on allowances in the...
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: We are all agreed it is vital that citizens who require home help hours and home care packages get the hours and service they are entitled to expect in any decent society. Home help services and packages are a lifeline to some of the most vulnerable members of our community. This year, 10.7 million hours of home help support will be provided in communities from Louth to Limerick and Donegal...
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: Compare Sinn Féin's pronouncements tonight with its decision last week that will see at least half and perhaps all state-run residential care homes in Northern Ireland close in five years.
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: That is hypocrisy and deception of the most shameful kind, particularly viewed in the context of this motion. Is the party tabling the motion tonight the same party that is closing 70 schools in Northern Ireland, only a matter of miles from my constituency where we are building a considerable number of schools and extending even more? By slashing spending in the North to the tune of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Election of Chairman (16 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: I propose Deputy Michael McCarthy as Chairman of the joint committee.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of any direct financial support provided to the Irish Banking Federation from his Department in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44208/12]
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: What do we mean by responsibility in the context of this Bill? In particular, what is our own cultural attitude to responsibility? In my view, for too long our default approach to responsibility has been like someone sitting in a restaurant looking at the healthy option on the menu. We know it is the right thing to do, we know it is good for us but we quietly hope that someone else would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin to the meeting. The two representatives have a long track record of commitment to public service and I look forward to working with them. I will confine my remarks, observations and questions to home care packages and the home help service. Do the representatives have figures available indicating the number of home help hours in the system...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: Does Ms McGuinness have an idea of the balance between public and private provision in the Dublin north-east region or the Dublin region in general?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: That is 70% in terms of private provision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: We have seen a huge growth in the provision of services by private care companies in recent years. The figures I have available, and Ms McGuinness can correct me if I am wrong, suggest that, for example, in 2007 expenditure from the HSE on private care contractors was approximately €2.5 million, and such expenditure has climbed to €19.14 million in 2011, the year for which...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: Where is the saving then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Gerald Nash: Can Ms McGuinness describe the type of contract enjoyed by a person directly engaged by the HSE to provide the home help service? What kind of contract would that person have?