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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Capital Expenditure Programme (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to create a special infrastructure development fund or equivalent vehicle with funds identified from forecasted surpluses based on windfall corporation tax receipts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ethics in Public Office (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has formally taken back responsibility for the ethics reform agenda; if he will provide an update on his legislative priorities in respect of the ethics and standards in public office agenda for the remainder of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of new whole-time equivalents in the Civil Service and public service up to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Family Reunification (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 271. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that healthcare assistants who have been recruited by the HSE from abroad, are facing terrible difficulties reuniting with family members in Ireland because their income does not meet the income threshold for family reunification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31056/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Family Reunification (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 272. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will move to increase the minimum wage of non-EEA healthcare assistants to €30,000 to help them reach the threshold for family reunification; if the Government will move to grant a Stamp 1G Visa for non-EEA healthcare assistant, HCA, spouses and-or allow dependents a work permit; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite promotion of suitably qualified non-EEA healthcare assistants as nurses with an employer letter, without the need for a language proficiency exam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making on expanding the national heel-prick test, given that 28 June is International Neonatal Screening Day; how many diseases babies born today in Ireland are currently being tested for; when he will decide on including spinal muscular atrophy in newborn screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31309/23]

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for his response to Deputy Ó Laoghaire’s very well considered Bill. The Minister of State acknowledged that this is an issue that the Deputy has been working on for some time and in good faith. As the Deputy indicated at the start of his contribution, there is a similar situation in my constituency. It is a matter that was raised with me a short...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: I am happy to contribute to this debate on behalf of the Labour Party. I welcome the Minister's commitments in regard to support for apprentices in Tara Mines. We hope there will not be the kind of lay-offs initially unilaterally announced by the company. We also hope progress can be made on all of those jobs and a solution will be found to the problems facing Tara Mines, with the support...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons the Government plans to transpose the credit servicers directive by statutory instrument, and not primary legislation; if the Government is making efforts to have the trading of mortgages explicitly excluded from the terms of the directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Support Services (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance his views, based on the experience of the EWSS, on the need to embed a modernised short-time work scheme modelled on the successful German Kurzarbeit scheme, especially in light of the threat of 650 layoffs at the Tara Mines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30398/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering providing any assistance to mortgage holders impacted by the series of interest rate increases from the ECB over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30399/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 20 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in May 2015 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the AHB housing unit approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in January 2016 has finished construction; if so, its completion date; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if not, the reasons for the project not proceeding; the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ten AHB housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in January 2016 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if not, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the seven AHB housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in January 2016 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if not, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 24 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in January 2016 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 12 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) in January 2016 have finished construction; if so, their completion date; the final number of units delivered; the total cost of the project; if the development was officially opened by a Minister; if so, when that happened; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce a ministerial Order that will recognise the new generation apprenticeships that are, and will, progress from the construction skills certification scheme model to the more advanced apprenticeship model, in light of the possible solution identified in the answer provided to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 25 May 2023 now...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Waterways Issues (21 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update in relation to proposals to remove the Hebble Sand from the River Boyne; for an update on Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 19 April 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30065/23]