Results 741-760 of 6,415 for speaker:Gerald Nash
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: Have all the Office of Public Works, OPW, staff who were due to move to Trim now moved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: How many staff relocated to Trim?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: Is Ms McGrath based in Trim herself?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: Does she have office facilities in Dublin too?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: The OPW manages most of the State’s property portfolio and has done so in a good way over the recent years. On Garda station closures, 137 stations have been closed to date. I understand 20 will be put on the market soon. What is the process as to how the decision is taken to put stations on the market? Is there any interaction with local authorities, other public agencies or the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: I note there has been an increase of 13% in visitor numbers at heritage sites between 2010 and 2011. What does the OPW put that down to, apart from the extremely hard work of its staff? What are the busiest sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: How is the Battle of the Boyne site at Oldbridge performing? Are visitor numbers there increasing every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Gerald Nash: There is some concern about the ability of the Oldbridge site to capture the sort of visitor numbers Newgrange has. Clearly, Newgrange-Brú na Bóinne is a world heritage site and that in itself attracts significant numbers of international visitors. We have a site next door, namely the Oldbridge site, which is managed very well. It is a huge addition to the tourism and heritage...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Gerald Nash: That is nonsense.
- Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)
Gerald Nash: They got a bargain.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)
Gerald Nash: I wish to share time with Deputies Arthur Spring, Ann Phelan and Seán Kenny.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)
Gerald Nash: I am glad of the opportunity publicly to welcome this Bill. It contains many measures which are long overdue and which were, unfortunately, overlooked or ignored for many years by previous Administrations. One area of the Bill deals specifically with jobseeker's payments to retained firefighters. This is a subject of particular interest to me. It has been raised with me on many occasions...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: I will try to use some lines which the Minister may have used. The legislation before us tonight is an absolute con-job of the highest order. If Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors up and down the country really believed that this tax should be abolished, then they would have steadfastly refused to pay it. I applaud those Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors who accept that taxes...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: In my opinion, Sinn Féin can have their brand of mock patriotism if all it involves is using every tired trick in their play book to tear asunder the hard-won stability in the public finances on which families up and down this country depend. It is amusing to find a common policy platform shared by Sinn Féin and the populist king of Bunga Bunga, Silvio Berlusconi. Both want to...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: As a socialist, I support the concept of a tax on property. I always have.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: Rates should never have been abolished as they were in 1977 when Fianna Fail bought an election and drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Little did we know that 30 years later it would finally accomplish the trick. Had we had a property tax in place then, we might have tempered the insane property bubble which dragged our economy into ruins. We were the only country in Europe...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: There has always been one in Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin happily collects £1,000 sterling on ordinary three-bedroom semis just across the Border from my constituency.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: Of course, Sinn Féin will tell us that a whole range of services are received in return, with exceptions. Free bin collection - I do not think so. In the North there is no automatic entitlement to free school uniforms, buses, or school meals as Sinn Féin would have us believe. While there are grants and exemptions which can be applied for by social welfare recipients, the rates...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: It is amazing. Why is that? Perhaps, it is because in the North, as the Minister pointed out, Sinn Féin is in power. It has to govern and cannot get away with the kind of populist spoofing its members engage in down here. This fact is at the very heart of the monumental con-job the legislation before us represents. Leaving aside the ludicrous conflicts between Sinn Féin's...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Education and Training Provision (11 Jun 2013)
Gerald Nash: 377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the criteria used in establishing the suitability of candidates for inclusion on momentum programme courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27095/13]