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Written Answers — Homlessness Strategy: Homlessness Strategy (3 Jul 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by him to fund homelessness statutory and voluntary services for County Meath in 2010; if he will provide a breakdown of funds allocated to all statutory and voluntary services in County Meath providing services for persons who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: He answered it.

National Cultural Institutions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to debate Ireland's cultural infrastructure and the importance of our cultural institutions. As someone who has been immersed in cultural life both professionally and as a citizen, I value the key role that cultural institutions play in helping us to present various manifestations and expressions of our identity and our Irishness. They are often the first reference...

Written Answers — Health Service Executive Funding: Health Service Executive Funding (26 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 547: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to the Dignity4Patients organisation to allow its unique service to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30496/12]

Patient Redress Scheme (26 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise the issue of compensation for women excluded from the redress scheme of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. All Members, including the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, have acknowledged the appalling wrongs done to the women who suffered altogether unnecessary hysterectomies at the hands of Michael Neary. The redress...

Patient Redress Scheme (26 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the Minister of State's response and welcome the commitment in the programme for Government regarding the women who were outside the original scheme. The removal of ovaries and the crude withdrawal of the ability to reproduce is difficult for any woman to accept but it is particularly difficult in cases where such procedures are not clinically necessary. These are challenging...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: In the past two months the Sinn Féin Party has performed more stunts than Evel Knievel. From doctoring quotes from respected academics to last-minute publicity hungry court actions to this Bill tonight, it appears there is a common thread. We are using valuable Dáil time on a Bill that does not deserve to be called legislation. To call this piece of paper legislation gives this House a...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: The Sinn Féin Party does not come to this debate with clean hands either. Few believe its rhetoric on the household charge in this State when it demands on average the equivalent of €1,500 per household in the North. Is this not evidence of a partitionist mentality? Deputy Stanley should front up. His MLAs and councillors in the North are happy to suck over £1,000 out of three-bed...

Written Answers — Ports Sector: Ports Sector (19 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 717: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any chief executive officer of a semi-State port company has been awarded a permanent contract by the relevant board of that company; if any such contracts were awarded; if he will clarify if this was in accordance with departmental guidelines in relation to the awarding of such contracts; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (14 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the monthly yield of VAT from each tax district and tax region for each month from January 2010 to May 2012 inclusive. [28845/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (14 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the likely yield from additional capital acquisitions tax, if the following changes were made, drop the Category A threshold to €200,000, to reduce the level of business and agricultural relief to 75%, and to cap the level of business and agricultural relief at €2,500,000. [28846/12]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (14 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the likely cost of the following changes to VAT rates, reducing the VAT rate on services currently charged at 9% to 5%; reducing the VAT rate on certain business services currently charged at 23% to 15%, that is accounting and legal services and reducing the standard VAT rate from 23% to 20%. [28847/12]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (14 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe in which the assessment of the implications of the International Labour Organisation's Convention 189 will be completed by his Department; and when this information will be reported to the Houses of the Oireachtas. [28836/12]

Written Answers — Job Initiatives: Job Initiatives (14 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a detailed progress report on the implementation of the pathways to work initiative; if she will also provide an update on the issue of appointment to the initiative's advisory board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28740/12]

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: I propose to share time with Deputy Dara Murphy. No one did more to destroy confidence in politics and planning in this country than the Fianna Fáil Party. This motion has nothing to do with restoring confidence and trust in planning and politics. As Fianna Fáil seeks to leave its tarnished past behind, it sees the shortest route back to respectability as attempting to tarnish the entire...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 608: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has developed contingency plans to deal with the extra demand anticipated at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, County Louth, in view of the continuing plans to downgrade services at Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry as a direct result of cutbacks introduced by the Northern...

Written Answers — International Conventions: International Conventions (6 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 281: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he intends, in view of the requirement under the International Labour Organisation's constitution to submit adopted conventions to national parliaments within one year of their adoption by the organisation, to submit convention 189 on the rights of domestic workers to Dáil Éireann before 16 June; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (6 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored site visits to locations in Drogheda, County Louth, including the IDA Business Park, Drogheda, County Meath in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26640/12]

Written Answers — National Spatial Strategy: National Spatial Strategy (6 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 581: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to initiate a detailed review of the national spatial strategy taking account of changing demographics and socio-economic trends since the adoption of the strategy in 2002; his views on the timeframe for any such review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26717/12]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (22 May 2012)

Gerald Nash: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if in view of the fact that Uruguay has ratified the ILO convention 189, if he will consider ensuring that Ireland ratifies said convention in relation to domestic workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25409/12]