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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (2 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: Nearly 20% of all households in this country are experiencing energy poverty. Up to March, energy prices had gone up by almost 50% in a year. As the Minister knows this is hitting low-income households throughout the country the hardest. Energy companies, as the Minister knows, have posted hyper-profits this year. What plans has the Minister to ask the energy companies to do more to help...

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion. It is an important debate and I am glad that we are having it. All of us, especially those who served on local authorities, are intimately familiar with the programme and the special housing adaptation grant scheme. It is a good, effective scheme. It was far-sighted of the Minister and local authorities that first introduced it. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an investigation is being undertaken by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement into the substance of a complaint submitted to the ODCE by a person (details supplied) in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28212/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans, if any, to reopen the train station in Dunleer, County Louth; the estimated cost of reopening the existing station; his views that Dunleer offers the potential for an improved rail service for the mid and south Louth areas and that a cost-benefit analysis should be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the attention of her Department has been drawn to the change in the ownership and company structure at an organisation (details supplied); her views on whether this changed structure means that the organisation is ineligible to draw down the Sports Capital Grant awarded to it in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Council (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to take on any functions relating to the delivery of the Collaborative Town Centre Health Checks programme operated by the Heritage Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 second dose booster programme for persons under 65 years of age; when this age cohort will be offered an additional Covid-19 booster vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28262/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 68 essentially seeks to achieve a similar aim as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's amendment. It is, in essence, about how we deal with the question of donations and fundraising in relation to NGOs. It is a very live issue, as the Minister of State is aware. It has been openly talked about in the NGO sector and across society for quite a long time now. Amendment No. 68 seeks to make...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 68: In page 90, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 22 of Electoral Act 1997 105.Section 22 of the Electoral Act 1997 is amended in subsection (2)(a) by substituting the following for paragraph (viii): “(viii) a payment by the person on their own behalf, or on behalf of one or more than one other person, of a fee...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I would like the Minister of State to elaborate on his intentions with specific regard to amendment No. 90. There is obviously quite a number of amendments in this grouping but it would be good to get a clearer picture of what the Minister of State intends to achieve with amendment No. 90. I will then speak on my amendment to the amendment, if that is appropriate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: On amendment No. 90 and what my amendment to that amendment seeks to achieve, I think the Minister of State's position is that he is proposing that a party registered both North and South would have to declare its property and its income from that property on an all-island basis. Our amendment seeks to go a little further. Without it, such a party could still receive donations in the North...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is an important perspective and the amendment seeks to address a significant issue of anomalies relating to parties registered and operating both North and South in cases where they are in some way taking advantage of British electoral law and what is allowed in that context compared with what is permitted here. The Hampton case illustrated that as a problem because of the lack of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: In correspondence my party and I had with the Standards in Public Office Commission in 2019 when we first brought to its attention the William Hampton bequest of more than £2 million in cash and assets, it delayed its examination of it. There was correspondence between the leader of Sinn Féin and her office and SIPO. SIPO essentially conceded to Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's argument...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 90: To insert the following after paragraph (c): “(d) (i) by the substitution in subsection (2) (d) of “donation;” for “donation.”, and (ii) by the insertion of the following after subsection (2)(d): ‘(e) where a gift or a bequest of money is made outside the State to a political party, it is deemed...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: No. I am happy to withdraw my amendment on the basis of what the Minister of State has said, but I may re-enter it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: All donations from outside of the State need to be declared regardless of whether they come from a citizen or not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: As the provision stands it says we can make a contribution or donation within the regulations. My understanding, which I mentioned in my remarks when we discussed the amendment, is that every donation, regardless of its size, needs to be declared now. Is that presented cumulatively or individually in terms of the statutory reporting requirement? An example would be if John Reilly in London...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I agree with what Deputies Ó Broin and McAuliffe said. The pace of change in the evolution of online platforms is such that we will not be in a position to wait two, three, five or ten years for a reappraisal of the utility and effectiveness of this legislation. It is an important start, but we have to remain ahead of the game and keep a watching brief on how the evolution of those...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Referral to Select Committee (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of grants provided by the IDA to a company (details supplied) under all of the relevant IDA grant headings in each of the years 2012 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27771/22]