Results 41-60 of 89 for going forward speaker:Gerald Nash

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...of experts before the committee that affordability should be defined specifically as one third of the person's income. My colleague, Senator Rebecca Moynihan, the Labour Party’s housing spokesperson, put forward this expert definition as an amendment only for it to be rejected. I find that extraordinary. There are — I checked this earlier — 63 references to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on Deputy Eoin Ó Broin’s Bill. Before I go into the meat of this, it is important that we reflect a little on the history and, indeed, performance in practical terms of the Part V provision since it was introduced over 20 years ago. The Minister of State touched on it briefly, to a point, in his contribution. I was a member of a local...

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...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...given the particular set of circumstances in which they find themselves. Many have seen turnover plummet by up to 95% compared with 2019, and they are still not trading to any great degree. Even when forward bookings are made for 2022, the agents will not necessarily get any real income from the bookings until eight weeks before clients are due to travel. That is my understanding of how...

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I want to follow on from some of the remarks made by Sinn Féin Deputies regarding the process by which the application and submission from the Government was made to the European Commission under the EU's recovery and resilience fund. It is a sad commentary on how we do business that Deputies from across the political spectrum...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...The memorandum also states, "Businesses have faced soaring insurance premium costs as a result of the actions of fraudsters." It is at pains to point out that only a minority of claimants bring forward fraudulent claims to courts. The Bill seeks to ensure that an automatic referral of a claim that has been found to be fraudulent would be made to the DPP, which could act as a deterrent to...

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...are very fast-moving in the financial services industry and we need to cover many issues this evening. It has been a wretched ten days for banking and financial services in Ireland. Ulster Bank is going. I support moves to scope out the concept of a third banking force and the potential role that Permanent TSB may play in that. As we know Bank of Ireland has taken the knife to 88...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for presenting this important motion this afternoon. The Labour Party fully supports the motion and the extension of the EWSS going forward. The TWSS, and its successor the EWSS, have been an extraordinarily important initiative taken by the Government. It has literally been a lifesaver for countless businesses and workers across the country. The Minister might recall...

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...and struggles. Hundreds of thousand more are having their wages paid through State subsidies. They are all looking for some sense of hope, some sense that even in this dark time they can look forward to a future where jobs, businesses and prospects are secure. They long for a signal of a brighter, fairer future. The sense that increased spending by the State will drive better value...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...end of last March and into early April. Those of us who are students of history know that pandemics and global crises like that which we are now experiencing have, over the centuries, brought forward radical social and economic change. If anything collectively good is to come out of the death, the trauma and the tragedy of the Covid pandemic, then it ought to be a fairer and more...

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?...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...to be assembled and deployed for or against candidates for positions on credit union boards, dividend payments, mergers, etc. Considerable discussions on the subject of mergers are currently ongoing between credit unions throughout the country. The introduction of bloc voting could make manipulation of outcomes easier for persons with criminal intent, including money laundering by...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...designing effective wealth and asset taxes, will come back to haunt this country. It will also lead to questions over the sustainability of the Government's own plans for economic management and social investment going forward.

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.

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...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...old clichés and tropes can have an element of truth to them. I believe this to be the case this year. With additional spending of more than €17 billion, it takes a chancer to claim that nothing good whatsoever came from budget 2021, which is evidently untrue. Sadly, it took a pandemic to invest more in hospital beds and in an overburdened health service that has been crying...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...than in the State's failure to make provision for a legal right to statutory sick pay. Sick pay is not an extravagance or a luxury and neither is it something that workers should have to beg for or to go, cap in hand, to their employer to receive. We pride ourselves on being a progressive, liberal, open and tolerant country and society, an outward-looking place. We have shed our...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...we are at an absolutely critical juncture in our history and Covid-19 has exposed some of the existing strains and inequalities in our society and economy. Putting it frankly, there should be no going back to business as usual or to an inequitable and unfair economic model that sees over 20% of our workers on low pay. There should be no going back to a services model where those with the...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...job, rising income or an affordable home, has diminished for too many." These phenomena referenced by the Minister in his book review last weekend should come as no surprise to anyone who served in the last Government, a government supported by the Minister of State's own party, albeit from the outside. The challenges outlined by Mr. Sandbu in that publication are very real. Covid-19...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy O'Gorman for putting on the record some very important indisputable facts around a reality of threats that have been issued to juries in organised crime cases in recent years. That is one of the primary reasons this House needs to unite to express our support for resolutions put forward by the Minister today. I have no hesitation whatsoever in supporting the continuation of...