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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including testosterone cypionate in the drug payment scheme in view of the financial hardships being endured by patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that works being carried out on the historic Obelisk Bridge at Oldbridge, County Meath will see the bridge close from 1 August 2023 for one year; if he is aware that the closure of this bridge/route from the north to the south of Drogheda will force motorists to use the toll bridge on Donore Road, Drogheda; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the public policy rationale for the changes made in the Finance Act 2022 in relation to the obligations of tenants and collection agents of non-resident landlords; if he will provide details on the number of non-resident landlords recorded by the Revenue Commissioners in 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of new operatives and new trades apprentices hired into each of the 31 local authorities for each year since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline, on a step-by-step basis, the process provided for in section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) whereby the full administrative area of a housing authority i.e. an entire local authority area is capable of designation as a rent pressure zone; if this process is capable of being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application by Louth County Council for additional funding for the housing adaptation grants scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32808/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to introduce a pensions cost-transparency initiative, as referenced in the Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021 Second Stage Dáil Éireann debate on 22 September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out an “examination and assessment of the issues pertaining to the provision of information to pension scheme members in relation to costs and charges incurred by pension schemes and, if deemed to be required, to identify and develop the appropriate policy responses and associated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline in detail the number of members of An Garda Síochána in place at the station in Drogheda, County Louth in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to provide an extension to the operational period of the Drogheda Implementation Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32144/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Solar Energy Guidelines (28 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department arrived at the estimation (details supplied) as included in his Statement of early May 2023 when he announced the zero VAT rate on the sale of solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in light of the increase in demands on the Northern Rail Line that the Dart+ Coastal North project will bring, his Department has considered increasing the number of tracks from two to four on the busy stretch of the line between Malahide and Connolly Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31553/23]

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]

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]