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Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(5) Each amendment to the Act of 2000 effected by this Act shall continue in operation for 18 months from the coming into operation of the amendment concerned, and shall thereupon stand repealed.”. It will be useful to read the amendment again to the House. It states, "Each amendment...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: In my experience, Part 8 has generally worked very well. Certainly, in my experience as a local authority member for 12 years and as someone who is still very much engaged with my old council team in County Louth and east Meath, I cannot recall any particular problems in terms of Part 8, or any element of it representing a logjam for the council providing itself with permission, for want of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the concrete actions taken by officials at his Department, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to intensify their engagement with tech employers following recent high-profile layoffs within the sector; if he will provide an update on the meetings that his officials or stated agencies have had with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will publish the planned White Paper on industrial policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to review any provisions of the Protection of Employment Acts 1977 to 2014 in respect of the requirement for employers to notify the Minister of proposed collective redundancies and the obligation on employers to engage in an information and consultation process with employees' representatives; if he will consider...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the next steps that he plans to take on foot of the Labour Employer Economic Forum High Level Group on Collective Bargaining Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a policy issue raised by an Irish citizen living abroad relating to archaic list of professions allowed to witness Irish passports (details supplied); if he shares the view that both the list of professionals is archaic and particularly burdensome for Irish citizens living abroad and such professionals in foreign...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: What Deputy Doherty is saying is interesting. It is a live possibility that something like that could happen. In theory, the section allows for that and it could therefore happen in practice. If there is the potential for these kinds of situations to arise where there is suspicion of contraventions, where full hearings do not take place, and these issues are then resolved, how might this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Even in an anonymised format?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 33: In page 54, to delete lines 17 to 24 and substitute the following: “(6) On an application under subsection (5), the High Court shall confirm the decision unless it is satisfied— (a) that, by reason of a serious error or omission, whether in the record of the decision or in the conduct of the proceedings, it would in all the circumstances...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Curial deference is not a phrase that we hear every day.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is a first for the Minister and it is the first time I have heard him use that phrase. It is a significant phrase, loaded with meaning. I thank the Minister for his response. I understand his explanation and the intention of this section. The intention of my amendment is to further strengthen the robustness of the legislation because those who will be covered by it are the kind of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Would it be useful for the functioning and operation of the legislation to keep a record and to make that record available? There is deep public interest in the operation of this new regime. Everybody welcomes it and it is more than necessary. It would be useful to give some consideration to how that would be recorded from the Central Bank’s own perspective on the operation of the...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this important debate. It is important that we have the opportunity to make statements and have a debate on this very important social issue we have been grappling with for quite some time. I also wish the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, the Minister and all their colleagues a happy Christmas. I thank, as other colleagues have, all the staff...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (15 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the new temporary business energy support scheme; the number of applications that have been accepted to date; the average request in cash terms; the number of applications per county; the number of applications broken down by sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63012/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a policy issue raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to the ongoing teacher retention crisis; her plans, if any, for an appropriate online portal on which teachers seeking voluntary redeployment could enter their details to seek a direct swap with a matching teacher seeking the reverse relocation as proposed in a...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Taoiseach on his accession again to that office. I wish him and his ministerial colleagues well in their endeavours. This year, we mark the centenary of the State. The Labour Party has always sought to put our country before the short-term interests of the party. Rarely has this been to our electoral reward. We helped to shape the institutions and stability of a...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Minister is selling us a narrative that suits his own ends, but what are the facts? Is it not a fact that there has been a breach of both the donation and expenditure rules that everyone in this House is bound by? The Act insists that no expenditure can be incurred at an election except by the agent or his or her nominee. The SIPO guidelines point out that it is an offence for a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: On a point of order-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The Minister has said he will make a further statement in relation to his 2016 statement to the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO. When does he plan to do that? Has he made that request directly to the Ceann Comhairle?