Results 121-140 of 6,401 for speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 364. To ask the Minister for Finance how he will satisfy himself that the IBRC has fully complied with all of its legal and regulatory obligations before its planned closure on 1 June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; if she will ensure that the recommendation made by a Louth-based SNA to provide additional resources to a school in Drogheda, which has been declined, will be honoured (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17374/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the proposed revised ethics legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16243/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: Will the Minister provide with an update on the Government's plans, as contained in the programme for Government, for updated ethics legislation. He will be well aware that we have been waiting a number of years to see the enactment of legislation that was committed to in the 2020 programme for Government. In fact, it first took draft legislative form in Brendan Howlin's public sector...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I hope the Minister will agree that the standard for this legislation, for want of a better description, was set in the 2015 legislation developed by Brendan Howlin, my then colleague and one of the Minister's predecessors. It has been a considerable number of years since the commitment was made. We have had three Governments since the 2015 legislation was introduced. We have had the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: There was a commitment in the previous programme for Government. The Deputy spent time as Minister for public expenditure and reform in that-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ethics in Public Office (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Minister has clarified that. I am happy to accept that. I hope then he will bring some renewed vigour, if I can describe it as such, to this particular process. This is fundamental. Parliamentary democracy is a fragile flower. We have seen across the world how bad actors can exploit situations of corruption or perceived corruption. The consequences of that are happening across the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review CAT inheritance tax thresholds and arrangements for couples who have no children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact the imposition of tariffs by the United States will have on jobs, the economy and the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the impact of US tariffs on the public finances; the preparations he is making to secure the public finances in regard to the potential impact of tariffs on the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16459/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I am ill-prepared. I have an amendment to move but I assume it will be taken at a later point.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1: In paragraph (1), to delete "31 October 2025" and substitute "31 December 2025". I thank the Minister of State for introducing this measure. We in the Labour Party anticipated last October that we might be in this position at this point in time. The Minister of State was not in her current role then but she may recall that on budget night, when the financial...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is fair enough. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: I was not expecting to be called so quickly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: What I said earlier.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Gerald Nash: Yes. Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Mar 2025)

Gerald Nash: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate a case (details supplied) where the practice of determining teaching staff numbers based on the enrolment figures from the year before is resulting in this school facing huge class sizes in the autumn of this year, putting undue pressure on staff and pupils alike; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Mar 2025)

Gerald Nash: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts the case made by the principal of a school (details supplied); when will her Department will make a determination on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14781/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Abuse (27 Mar 2025)

Gerald Nash: 376. To ask the Minister for Health when she plans to meet with representatives of a victims group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14740/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Office of the Attorney General (27 Mar 2025)

Gerald Nash: 394. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has received legal advice requested by her predecessor in September 2024 from the Attorney General in relation to the publication of the 'Drogheda Review' undertaken by Judge TC Smyth in 2009; the date on which the formal advice was received by her Department from the Attorney General; if she will outline her next steps on this issue; and...