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River Boyne Task Force Bill 2023: First Stage (30 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...prehistory, dating back as far as the first settlers in Ireland. The River Boyne is under serious pressure, not least from the threat posed by plans by a meat-processing firm to discharge treated waste into a river where water quality is already threatened and biodiversity is at risk. This Bill is the brainchild of my colleague and County Meath Councillor Elaine McGinty, who is with us...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Gerald Nash: .... We have been told that many schools have been put on hold for an undefined period of time and that works will begin at an indefinite date in the future. I will remind the Minister of what we managed to do at a time when this country had no money whatsoever. It was not just his sensibilities as an architect, but as a politician as well, that led the then Minister for Education and...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: .... It is up to us to determine what that change should look like. Coming out of Covid, this budget was a chance to deliver a new deal for a fairer Ireland. It does nothing of the sort. The four wasted years between 2016 and 2020 were years of missed opportunities. Suffocating economic and fiscal conservatism and a lack of ambition prevented the country from seeing its hard-won new...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...to pay the mortgage. In 2021, a hardworking couple of modest means does not stand a chance. The option of a decent home built by the local authority in my area is ten years away and a fortune in taxpayers’ money wasted on the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme. Housing and speculation as a source of enrichment for a small few at the expense of the common good began under a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (12 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the fact that should plastic packaging producers eco-design plastic products to mono-material structures, waste managers may still not recycle these products and thus producers would continue to incur eco-modulated extended producer responsibility fees by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...we have heard in recent times is cheap when one in five primary care centres does not yet have a GP, while many more lack basic diagnostic equipment. The Labour Party's alternative budget set aside €40 million to fast-track community diagnostic and assessment hubs to take pressure off our acute hospitals at this very difficult time. Nowhere has poor policymaking and waste of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...new facilities, or refurbished facilities, that we want or need, but if we do not populate them with expert staff and outreach workers to deal with the issues on the ground, then it is an absolute waste of time and State resources and money. I must mention the situation that the school secretaries across the State find themselves in this week. Agreement was reached that school secretaries...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Gerald Nash: Fianna Fáil has a responsibility in this matter, whether it likes it or not. We all know about Fianna Fáil's historic mismanagement of the public finances, to put it diplomatically, and where that got the people of this country. I am extremely concerned to learn from residents in north Louth of plans from an agency operating on behalf of the UK Government to develop a site for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Gerald Nash: ...Labour Court to examine the need for a particular type of wage setting mechanism in a sector. I am always anxious to ensure that there are proper standards in every industry. Last year, the waste management industry was very much in focus because of the issues around the Greyhound dispute. We are publishing legislation this week in respect of additional wage setting mechanisms in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Gerald Nash: There are approximately 100 registered household kerbside waste collection companies operating in Ireland and there are approximately 3,000 waste collection permits currently extant. The industry employs almost 6,000 people directly while the indirect labour figure is less clear. Given the number of companies competing for business in the household kerbside waste collection sector, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Gerald Nash: The HSA, an agency under the aegis of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, decided to undertake a focused campaign of inspection and engagement with the players in the waste management sector last year. The aim was to ensure that there were improved standards of performance in the industry and a renewed focus on workplace health and safety due to the issues of which the Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...standards of financial control. He referred to the Department's risk assessment mechanisms and audit facilities and essentially spoke on how good is the Department with regard to oversight, managing projects and managing its budgets. However, in the case of the State Pathology Service farrago, this comedy of errors, there is no evidence to suggest, at least between 2006 and 2011 or 2012,...

Waste Management (18 Oct 2011)

Gerald Nash: ...of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, who is our local Deputy and has considerable experience of the issue, is in a position to respond on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Hogan. The operation of the waste management system has many deficits. However, the most yawning gap is the complete and utter disconnection between local democracy and the decision-making process when it comes to the final...

Waste Management (18 Oct 2011)

Gerald Nash: The north-east waste management strategy, with incineration as its focus, was rejected by local authorities across the region, specifically Louth County Council, but it was imposed by the then Minister, Mr. Noel Dempsey. From start to finish, the process was an anti-democratic stitch-up, with a predetermined outcome which flew in the face of any semblance of local community intervention or...