Parliamentary questions

Tax Avoidance

Ged Nash

336. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to ensure it participates fully in the automatic exchange of financial account information, including by providing information to lower-income countries on a non-reciprocal basis in the first instance, and by publishing information on the aggregate value of accounts on which information is provided and received by the UK under the OECD Common Reporting Standard as outlined in the report of the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16865/21]

Financial Services Regulation

Ged Nash

337. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to ensure it meets fully the recommendation for public registers of the ultimate beneficial ownership of each type of legal entity that it permits to be established, with the information fully verified as outlined in the report of the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16866/21]

Tax Avoidance

Ged Nash

338. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to meet the recommendation that all multinational companies should publish country by country reporting data as outlined in the report of the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16867/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

412. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the bodies under his aegis which are non-commercial State agencies that have an annual budget expenditure of €5 million or greater and annual ICT expenditure of €100,000 or greater as per circular 02/2016; if any of these bodies are not compliant with their obligations under the circular; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that since 2016 no retrospective approval for expenditure for ICT over €25,000 was granted by his Department and that no incomplete or draft documentation was accepted by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16856/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

413. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all bodies under his aegis as defined under section 4b of Circular 02/2016 have submitted detailed plans to his Department of current year ICT-related expenditure; if any expenditure greater than €25,000 was approved by his Department prior to any advertisement on e-tenders or through any other competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16857/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

414. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total expenditure on ICT services by each body under his aegis for each year from 2016 to 2020 inclusive; the total cost of ownership of each of the top two ICT projects of each of these agencies during that time frame; the percentage of total ICT expenditure of each body that was not spent through OGP frameworks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16858/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

415. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if staff costs or project staff costs are relevant to calculations of ICT expenditure under circular 02/2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16859/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

416. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual expenditure on ICT for each body under his aegis that was not spent through an OGP framework or that was in excess of any agreed award through e-tenders since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16860/21]

Departmental Bodies Expenditure

Ged Nash

417. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of annual expenditure in each year since 2016 on ICT contractors and ICT consultants for each body under his remit; the total cost of ownership of any new software systems not approved in advance by his Department; the total expenditure on ICT hardware not procured through an OGP framework; the reason it was not procured through the OGP; if all ICT consultancies were procured and processed in line with the appendix to circular 02/2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16861/21]

Programme for Government

Ged Nash

471. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has allocated funding for the collaborative town centre health check which is in the programme for Government; if so, the amount allocated to the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16619/21]

Fire Stations

Ged Nash

486. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the planned Dunleer fire project; if a site has been identified; when work will commence; the planned completion date for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17028/21]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Ged Nash

548. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 27 January 2021, when the two detailed reports on technical pay grades 2-6 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16618/21]

Voluntary Sector

Ged Nash

693. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a request by an organisation (details supplied) for a once-off bridging grant of €2 million to support and sustain scouting in view of Covid-19; his plans in relation to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16320/21]

Vaccination Programme

Ged Nash

860. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is actively identifying potential sites in Drogheda for a second Covid-19 vaccination centre in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16325/21]

Hospital Staff

Ged Nash

887. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified doctors at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda as a result of intern posts created in April 2020 which were designed to bolster the health service during an unprecedented pandemic; if he plans to retain all of the newly-qualified doctors and related posts as whole-time equivalents at the stated hospital given the continued seriousness of Covid-19 and the consequent backlog in terms of treatment waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16428/21]

Health and Safety Authority

Ged Nash

164. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new HSA inspectors hired since June 2020 and January 2021, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14817/21]

Health and Safety Authority

Ged Nash

165. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Covid-19-related compliance checks undertaken by the HSA since June 2020 and January 2021, respectively; the number of inspections undertaken at sites of known outbreaks since these dates; the number of enforcement actions taken and completed since these dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14818/21]

Health and Safety Authority

Ged Nash

166. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Covid-19 complaints received by the HSA since June 2020 and January 2021, respectively; the percentage of these complaints that have been processed; the number of inspections and enforcement orders that were taken, respectively, as a result of these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14819/21]

Health and Safety Authority

Ged Nash

167. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he has taken to prevent employers obliging employees to attend the workplace in circumstances in which remote working is a possibility in spite of current Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14820/21]

Energy Policy

Ged Nash

251. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the concrete measures he plans to take to actively oppose proposals for floating LNG terminals in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15402/21]