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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if land reportedly donated by an organisation (details supplied) to a school has been formally transferred to the school; if planning permission has been sought for a playground for the school on that land; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13377/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 263. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to the Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 22 February 2024, to address the issue outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13393/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the full total spend by his Department to accommodate International Protection Applicants for 2023 alone (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13394/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions No. 1043 of 2 November 2021 and 1672 of 26 July 2022, when the HSE plans to develop a primary care centre at the site referred to in Ratoath, County Meath; if the plans are included in the HSE's current capital program; the overall cost and timeline for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 293. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide its conclusions and its determination of a complaint (details supplied); if he will outline all of the actions taken at the facility since the complaint was made to address the shortfalls and risks detailed in the complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13397/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the work of his Department on the provisions of the National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Apprentices) Bill 2023 and based on the Government’s decision on a timed amendment to second stage of the Bill in the debate on the Bill in Seanad Éireann on 3 May 2023; if he will set out the next stage in the process of...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I think it is parliamentary.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: He has been called worse.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: As always, I seem to find myself following my constituency colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú-----

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----whose contributions are always enlightening, as I think you will agree, a Cheann Comhairle, and I know the Minister of State will agree. As a former Minister of State with responsibility for business and employment from 2014 to 2016, I took a huge interest in the development of Microfinance Ireland and the various schemes it operated. I recall making some significant changes back in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the witnesses from the Central Bank, Dr. Robert Kelly and Dr. Martin O'Brien. The Committee on Budgetary Oversight is undertaking ex ante scrutiny of the SPU in order to understand the current fiscal context, to engage with stakeholders on these issues and to allow for greater parliamentary engagement and transparency to the budgetary process. Today, as I said, the committee is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: Thank you, Dr. Kelly. I now open the floor to members. The first contributor is Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am sure the witnesses will remind Deputy Conway-Walsh that the Central Bank is not directly responsible for consumer protection and that side of the house-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----but I have no doubt that they will respond as efficaciously as they can.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am going to make some observations now, if I may. I am required, unfortunately, to be in the Chamber in a few minutes to participate in a Second Stage debate on a Bill. Dr. Kelly notes that HICP inflation has been revised down relative to previous forecasts and the forecast for 2024 is 2%. However, I note the Central Bank's own review suggests that service prices inflation is sticky,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I understand that a memorandum on the revised EU fiscal rules was brought to Cabinet today. What kind of impact will these rules have on our own ability in terms of expenditure on public service and infrastructure? Certainly, monitoring the work of the European Parliament earlier on this year and the work our own social democrats group did, it seems that some of the lessons from the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: Certainly in an Irish content, it is not.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: The view of the Central Bank prior to budget 2024 and the post-budget assessment was that the measures announced in the budget, reflected in the Finance Bill and in the expenditure programme, were at least mildly inflationary. Would Dr. Kelly still stick to that position?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: Dr. Kelly makes the point in his presentation, and I think he was being optimistic, that most of the remaining non-core expenditure items will be wound down by 2025. Obviously, there are political decisions that will have to be taken but is the advice of the witnesses as economists that what at least is described as non-core expenditure would be wound down by 2025? They are the political...