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Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...may— (a)in relation to different classes of applications and having regard to the amount and complexity of the work involved in considering the applications, provide for— (i)different fees, (ii)exemptions from the payment of fees in specified circumstances, and (iii)waivers, remissions or refunds (wholly or partly) of fees in specified circumstances, and...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...payment for those in real need, targeted at those children who need it most to eradicate the scourge of child poverty. Nowhere does this budget disappoint more than on childcare. It promised little and delivered less. The Minister only just managed to persuade his Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael colleagues at the 11th hour that childcare fees should come down by the promised 25%. It...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (26 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: 394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to address the serious issues raised by the Bar Council on the need for fees paid to barristers practising criminal law in respect of the legal aid scheme to be increased in the context of cuts to the fees schedule which were first introduced in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41204/23]

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...in contracts are routine in Ireland. That effectively means actors and writers, by dint of their circumstances, are often in a position where they often have to sign away their rights for a fee. The real magic for somebody who works in the sector, especially on the creative side, is the ongoing royalties and payment derived from their creativity and their work. That is where the real...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: 1. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider waiving passport fees for children who are in foster care under the aegis of Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Passport Services (19 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to make the case for the waiving of passport application fees for children in foster care under the aegis of Tusla, given the fact that such fees are not routinely automatically reimbursed to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (22 Mar 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of all civil service training in his Department which is outsourced; the names of the private companies to which the outsourcing is procured from; the fees paid to each company in excess of €10,000 over each of the past three years; if he will list any courses and training procured abroad by senior civil servants in 2020, 2021 and 2022;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...to sit State examinations in 2023 and 2024 and will soon be making CAO applications and seeking SUSI support students will be treated as EU or Ukrainian citizens in the calculation of their college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2914/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Freedom of Information (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...should be to publish as much information as possible. As part of that review and any new legislation that might be introduced, is the Minister considering, for example, reducing or abolishing the fees for retrieval of information? The fees can act as a deterrent for citizens who are seeking to access important information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not including third-level students who are repeating first year in the scheme whereby student fees were reduced by €1,000 as part of the Government's cost-of-living support package; if he will provide a costing for the 2022-2023 academic year; if students in this category were to be included in the measure; if he plans...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...where the bills are paid in terms of an overall charge to the management company or to the owners of the site. The homes are metered by the owners of the site and tenants are charged an annual fee, essentially, but they do not have sight of the amount of electricity they might consume, for example. This is an issue. It affects a small minority of people but it is an issue. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are obliged to publish the system of fees they charge homeowners for the purchase of the fee simple for their property; if it is correct that local authorities are obliged to review the charging structure at regular intervals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (6 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the one-off €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students will apply to part-time students; if the reduction will also apply to students pursing a relevant degree programme with a private institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49410/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: .... It is revealing to me of a Government more concerned about its own future than the future of hard-pressed families. A summer social welfare bonus could have been paid out in July, as colleagues like Deputy Sherlock and others were calling for. Money off crippling college fees could have been paid in August, easing the anxiety for hard-pressed parents during the summer, without having...

Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...interest and the same kind of transparency, dare I say it, around pensions as we have in the context of mortgage products. However, the reality is that we simply do not. When it comes to pensions, the fees and charges that are associated with those unnecessarily complex products are rarely understood. This is despite such products often being the second most significant investment we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated of cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38632/22]

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

Gerald Nash: ...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 or subscription for membership or continued membership of a political party, provided that a donation to a third party for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (6 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the 0.5% fee cap attached to the State auto-enrolment pension scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a similar State-backed auto-enrolment scheme (details supplied) in the UK has a cap of 0.3%; if she is satisfied that the fee difference is justified and that the auto-enrolment scheme as...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...inflation, with a long-term commitment to bring weekly rates up to the minimum essential standard of living; — introduce a windfall levy on excessive profits made in the energy, transport, housing and food sectors due to rising prices; — take comprehensive action to make education free, introduce a universal public childcare model, bring forward the cap on childcare fees,...