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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Ashmore and Mr. Black for their contributions. It is the start of a process in terms of our interrogation of the question of sovereign wealth funds and where we go from here. We appreciate their contribution. I have no doubt we will be hearing from them again at some point soon. I thank them for taking the opportunity to be with us this evening. It is appreciated. I will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if any financial support or HSE schemes are available to Irish citizens for a specific treatment which is available in the UK (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that separated couples who have divided responsibility for childcare across a given week are currently caught in a situation where neither party is deemed to be entitled to the working family payment, despite the children being entirely dependent on both parties; if she has plans to address this unfair...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the light of the changing shape of the Irish family, her Department has plans to review the eligibility criteria for family-based social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24988/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (18 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual return on investments made by the Irish Strategic Investment Fund for each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23902/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (16 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on any progress the RSA has made since it closed the temporary driving test centre in Drogheda on the identification of a site for a new temporary centre and/or a site for a permanent centre in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22844/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new school building project for a school (details supplied) will commence; the timeline for completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22750/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: We know why the self-imposed general expenditure rule was imposed last year, that is, to take account of the high inflationary environment. The reality is that, for much of this year, inflation will be above that 5% target in terms of the Government's self-imposed expenditure rule. The Minister of State will appreciate the context of the macroeconomic success that this country is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: One particular point that the Minister of State made, and that he and his colleagues will consistently remind us of, is the once-off measures that were introduced to help families and businesses deal with the cost of living crisis, but the active point there is “once-off”. We know that our social welfare system is not indexed either to wage rises or increases in the cost of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to exceed the 5% expenditure rule in the context of budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22365/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget Process (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: I apologise for arriving late. I want to ask whether the Minister of State, his colleague the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, intend to exceed their self-imposed 5% expenditure rule in budget 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of refugees from Ukraine and international protection applicants currently housed in buildings and on sites which the OPW owns; how many additional people from each category the OPW plans to accommodate in OPW-owned buildings in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to exceed the 5% expenditure rule in respect of Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21438/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he agrees with the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications' recent analysis that thousands more civil and public servants are required to match the size of the economy and the demands placed on the State; the number of WTEs across the entire civil and public service as of 1 May, 2023 compared to the same date in 2020,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the OPW has to protect and preserve the High Crosses at Monasterboice, County Louth; the quantum of resources the OPW has allocated for this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22367/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans he and the OGP have to provide for the recruitment of a minimum number of craft apprentices in the context of the State's public procurement framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22369/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of her Department’s plans to build new primary and secondary schools to cater for the rapid expansion of the area which is the subject of the North Drogheda Environs Masterplan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22285/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: Everyone is very welcome. Like Deputy Doherty and unlike some others, I am hugely supportive and appreciative of the work that the Commission on Taxation and Welfare has done. I am also hugely appreciative of the range of very informed recommendations and propositions contained in the final report, which will hugely valuable to us as policymakers as we try to address some of the very clear...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: Does Professor Moloney agree with my proposition that we cannot have a sustainable, fair and equitable taxation system if we decide to dispense with residential property taxes?