Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change)
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751. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to abolishing the nursing registration fee for 2021 (details supplied). [1972/21]

Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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908. To ask the Minister for Health if he has or is due to waive the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, registration fee for the 2020-21 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1033/21]

Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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925. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that nurses and midwives are not forced to pay the €100 NMBI retention fee in 2021 in recognition of their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1093/21]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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962. To ask the Minister for Health if he will refund the €100 NMBI registration charge for 2021 in view of the work performed by front-line staff in hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1219/21]

Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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1090. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to the NMBI to cover the cost of nurses' annual retention fee in view of the work done by it during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1775/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 751, 908, 925, 962 and 1090 together.

Responsibility for the regulation of nurses and midwives in Ireland rests with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).

NMBI is an independent regulatory body established under the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011. While my Department is responsible for the oversight and governance of the NMBI, I have no role in setting or approving fees.

Under the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011, the NMBI is required to be self-financing, and the Annual Retention Fee is required to carry out their statutory obligations to protect the integrity of the practice of the professions of nursing and midwifery, and to protect the public. The annual retention fee was set by the NMBI in 2014 at €100 and is its main source of income in order to full these obligations.