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- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Referendum Campaigns (18 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his position on the planned referendum on the United Patent Court ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17053/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates or patients with addresses in County Louth who are currently on the waiting list for their first formal and direct appointment at the fertility treatment facility for IVF at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; the average waiting times for a first appointment at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17109/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the HSE will consider establishing a fertility treatment facility to facilitate patients from the north east who are seeking to avail of publicly funded IVF treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17110/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates or patients who have applied for treatment to date under the new publicly funded fertility treatment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17111/24]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: This evening's engagement is with representatives from the Nevin Economic Research Institute and Social Justice Ireland. They are very welcome. The committee has agreed to revisit the indexation of the welfare and taxation system against the background of the recommendations contained in its report on the topic, which was published in July 2022. I welcome: Dr. Tom McDonnell, co-director,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McDonnell for his contribution. I now invite Mr. John McGeady to make an opening statement on behalf of Social Justice Ireland.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. McGeady. I now open the meeting to the floor. Our first contributor this evening is Deputy Moynihan.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Moynihan. I call Deputy Donnelly.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I will ask Deputy Patricia Ryan to make a contribution. If there are no other members seeking to come in, I will make a contribution after her.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank the Deputy very much. Mr. McGeady wanted to respond to Deputy Ryan's points.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. McGeady. I am glad he made the remarks he did because it speaks to some observations I was going to make with regard to the question of adequacy of core weekly payments and our system more generally. We have to start looking at our social protection system through the lens of adequacy rather than simply a non-evidence-based way of generating what the rates might be every year....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses agree that the decision to introduce a number of once-off payments, as they were described, to complement the inadequate core payments over the past couple of years to assist households through a very difficult period, was, in itself, an admission that core welfare rates are utterly inadequate? My next question is based on that observation. Where do the witnesses think the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: Considering the erosion of the value of the pension in recent years, it really speaks volumes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: That is exactly why we need to have an informed discourse every day about the nature of poverty and how it manifests itself. Regardless of the composition of whatever Government happens to come into office after an election, that is consistently there. The word "informed” is key in the context of actually addressing those myths that are very damaging and then become truths and...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I would have to agree.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: They do not tell the whole story. Deputy Donnelly and Deputy Ryan are next.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: I will leave the final word to Ms Rogers.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: They are rarely reviewed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gerald Nash: We also have an extensive report here, and we had engagement from others-----