Results 1-20 of 89 for going forward speaker:Gerald Nash

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (17 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...resources where they are needed most. That is a job that would greatly enhance our democracy. As I stated, I am glad the Minister has agreed that well-being indices should be a feature of the process going forward. He will be familiar with legislation developed by my colleague, Deputy Howlin, which was published and passed Second Stage in 2017. I will be bringing forward legislation in...

Philanthropy and the Arts: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: I am glad the Minister has taken the opportunity to reiterate his support and the support of the Government for centrally funded supports for the arts going forward.

Seanad: Access to Finance for SMEs: Statements (19 Nov 2014)

Gerald Nash: Certainly. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his interest in this matter and for agreeing to this discussion. I look forward to the continued engagement of Senators both at committee level and in this House with legislation I will be bringing forward on this matter. It is important to say that I will be taking direct responsibility for the credit guarantee scheme. We intend to amend the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...using the SHD process to have significant developments fast-tracked through the planning process and then sitting on the sites or flipping them and making considerable gains on them while they go undeveloped. The intention of the amendment was to address the use it or lose it issue that the Minister, along with the Minister for Finance, appears to be confident will be addressed through...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Gerald Nash: ...the collective bargaining legislation the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and I have been working on for some time now and which will be published shortly and made available to all Deputies. I look forward to her input on that because that is about levelling the playing field and trying to create a fairer future in the workplace. We can discuss issues around relatively modest pay increases for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (13 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...This is a bigger issue than Dundalk Institute of Technology itself. This is about the socio-economic development of Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan and the entire north east into the future. It goes beyond even the immediate interests of staff and current students in Dundalk Institute of Technology. The Minister of State set out in very clear detail the benefits that will accrue to...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...some time now. We see this is an opportunity to help to drive down the ever-rising cost of living for hard-pressed families across the country. This is just one tool or weapon in the armoury of Government to address this unprecedented problem, the extent of which we have not experienced for a long number of years. To say that there was a sluggishness about the Government's response...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...must be conscious of that and, to be fair, successive boundary commissions have been. The idea of consistency over a period of elections is now hardwired into the work the electoral commission is going to do into the future. Deputy Ó Snodaigh is right. Parts of Dublin, in particular, have been taken in and out of constituencies. There is no affiliation with any particular Deputy,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...related to that. Today and previously, he has gone on record as stating very clearly that corporation tax reforms will impact the Exchequer to the tune of approximately €2 billion per year going forward over the next short period. Is it his assessment that this €2 billion impact will be exclusively around the reforms we have already signed up to in the context of Pillar 1...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...because they do not have the status of an employee. I have had these discussions with people in the sector and would appreciate if Mr. Duggan could elaborate on precisely how the Department is going to do that. My understanding is that when an individual takes a case to the scope section in terms of their insurability or determination of their status, the presumption is that they are...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...about ensuring that the fitness and probity criteria and requirements are followed. The Central Bank and the credit union movement worked very hard on that in recent years in terms of people going forward for election to sensitive positions. These issues need to be addressed at meetings, not in advance. Could the Minister of State clarify a point he made earlier on voting in advance?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...the vast majority of wealth in this country is held in assets. Successive Central Bank reports have indicated that but there are untapped resources there that are required to resource our services going forward. I would like to hear Mr. Barnes's view on that.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)

Gerald Nash: I am sharing time with Deputy Colm Keaveney and Deputy Robert Dowds. I welcome the publication of this Bill and I appreciate the sincerity of purpose with which it was brought forward. Philosophically, I believe the Bill is sound in its ambition. It is guided by a genuinely held objective to defend the interests of those who most require their rights to be defended and vindicated by this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...she wishes to do is to put the 2007 code of practice on a statutory footing, so in essence she wants to put that into primary law. That was also one of the ambitions of the legislation that I brought forward to ensure the inclusion in primary law of the tests for false self-employment, with which the witnesses and the Government are familiar because those tests were first introduced into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Gerald Nash: I very much welcome this review, which as Deputy Durkan said is timely. To the best of my recollection the previous review took place some time ago during the 1990s. Much has changed since then, in particular our circumstances. It is important to reflect on the fact that this review takes place against a backdrop of this country regaining its economic sovereignty. It is a timely...

Topical Issue Debate: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (19 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: ...with regard to how claims may be handled in certain offices of the Department of Social Protection. I have detected a pattern in recent times whereby once the issue of habitual residency is put forward an official may - this is not always the case - suggest there is little point in making an application because it would not be considered. Will the Minister of State clarify this? What I...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: ...representing the interests of smaller companies. I was anxious to capture as much of that as we possibly could. It is always important to point out that the Low Pay Commission, as it is currently going about its work, has hit the road and has engaged with business people who are operating in sectors of the economy that would be synonymous with low pay. It has also engaged directly with...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...people who have taken courage in their own hands to identify wrongdoing in organisations in which they work and we all want to have the best possible system in place to protect them when they go about that important business. Such business is really intrinsic to our democracy and the functioning of same and to be fair to the Minister, he acknowledged that in the earlier part of his...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...in point, and one that comes up practically every year, is Collon in County Louth. This is a village a few miles to the west of my home town of Drogheda. The vast majority of children in the area go to school either in Ardee or Drogheda, yet their local school, which is a fine school, is in Dunleer. A very significant number, if not the majority, of children in the area go to schools in...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...on which we all rely. I was reflecting earlier on my own personal experience this week before attempting to prepare some remarks. My family spent much of Monday morning helping a family member go to a service that is operated by community employment, CE, supervisors and funded by various agencies. I spent most of my day on Monday dealing not with the HSE, the local authority, the...