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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: The last question seamlessly moves on to my own line of questioning and I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh for the prompt. How difficult has it been since the budget was formulated and presented to the Dáil? How difficult has it been for the council to get the information it needs to make an informed assessment of the impact of budget 2024? How difficult has it been to access that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: Why?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: To get a sense of the question I am trying to ask and perhaps not articulating properly, I will better define where I am coming from. Were the main sticking points with the Department of Finance on its definitions around core and non-core? Professor McMahon might give me a characterisation of how that engagement went. I imagine there would be resistance. The Department is not blind to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: To move on to a couple of real-world impacts, because when we talk about how we generate and make decisions about the distribution of resources, it is about the real-world impact, Professor McMahon said, and has not put a tooth in it, that this is a procyclical budget. I do not mean to put words in his mouth but my interpretation of what he said was this budget could potentially add fuel to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: It would be fair to say that those who depend on the State for their income and those on low and modest incomes will be most adversely affected by inflation remaining higher for longer. As an economist, would Professor McMahon say budget 2024 was fiscally illiterate?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: I recall a number of months ago in national economic dialogue at meetings with civil society groups, and I will paraphrase here but I think it is accurate, the Taoiseach actually contradicted the Minister, Deputy Donohoe and the Minister, Deputy McGrath, when he said we can do tax cuts, we can increase capital expenditure, we can increase current expenditure all at the same time, provided...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister. While this Bill is something of a housekeeping exercise, it is nonetheless important that we are having some class of parliamentary debate on it. The Minister will recall it was not that long ago when we did not have debates of this nature on the annual Appropriation Bill. It simply went through on the nod, sadly, a little like our Supplementary Estimates this year....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Plants (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Government was first made aware of reported leaks from the Magnox swarf storage silo, MSSS, at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria (details supplied); if the Government was formally notified of the issue by the UK authorities; the actions the Government has taken in order to make the company and the UK...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 290. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of SME insolvencies recorded to 1 December 2023; the numbers for 2021 and 2022 respectively; the number of SMEs that utilised the SCARP process to 1 December 2023 and separately for 2022; the proportion of businesses that used the SCARP process and that restructured and emerged successfully from that process; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 291. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to request from the CRO information on the number of SMEs, broken down by sole traders; limited companies; partnerships; and other relevant structures, that formally ceased trading in 2021, 2022 and 2023; if that information will be provided by defined economic sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54887/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 881. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a request has been made by Louth County Council for capital funding to develop the former Dominican Order church on Dominic Street, Drogheda, County Louth, into a local authority library facility; if she will confirm the status of any request that has been made; when a decision will be taken; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and location of all the schools that applied for funding under the summer works scheme in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; if she will provide a list of all the schools that successfully secured funding in those years under the scheme; the value of the summer works scheme grant for each respective project, in tabular form; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Alcohol Labelling (6 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can give a report on the recent WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade meeting of November 2023 and matters regarding Ireland's law requiring health warnings on alcohol products on, or before, May 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to ensure the integration of spinal muscular atrophy screening in the heel prick test before the end of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53924/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: A full minute over time. It is nonsense.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 101. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department spent in 2021, 2022 and up to 27 November 2023 on advertisements with a website (details supplied). [53063/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 102. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department spent in 2021, 2022 and up to 27 November 2023 on advertisements with two websites (details supplied) respectively, in tabular form. [53064/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department spent in 2021, 2022 and up to 27 November 2023 on advertisements with a website (details supplied). [53065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Summer Works Programme is currently open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why there has been no new Summer Works Scheme since 2019; the number of Summer Works Schemes applications received in 2019 and since 2019 which are awaiting approval, broken down on a county-by-county basis, and under the primary and post-primary headings; if she will provide an update on the number of projects, broken down on a...