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Other Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: We all know that responsibility for determining employment or self-employment status rests with the Revenue Commissioners and the Scope section of the Department of Social Protection. In cases I have dealt with in my constituency over the years, it has taken a considerable amount of time for the Scope section to deal with cases referred to it. Deputy Tóibín is quite right that in...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I do not trust one word that comes out of the mouth of Sinn Féin about employment rights, zero-hour contracts, low-hour contracts or anything else, when one considers the low-pay economy over which trade unionists say Sinn Féin presides in Northern Ireland. Consequently, I will not take lectures from it on its views on employment rights or the performance of the Labour Party in...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: This was announced by the Minister.

Other Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: From the point of view of the Exchequer, revenues forgone because of bogus self-employment arrangements will be reviewed and changes made in that regard.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the Committee to which the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill, 2015 may be recommitted in respect of certain amendments, that it has power to make provision in the Bill in relation to:(a) an amendment to section 37 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 to make provision for the transitional...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Order for Report Stage (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, line 12, after “together;” to insert the following:“to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998, the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and the Companies Act 2014;”. Amendment No. 1 is required to amend the Long Title of the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015 to reflect amendments to the Workplace...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, line 18, after “Act” to insert “(other than Part 4)”.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 3:In page 3, line 22, to delete “This Act” and substitute “Parts 1 to 3”.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Calleary for raising this proposed amendment, which he also tabled on Committee Stage. As I indicated then, I am not accepting it because this specific area is not appropriate for such legislation. The Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Act 2014 does not empower the corporation to provide for loans direct to SMEs, as the Deputy knows, and any change to this is a matter...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: In regard to Deputy Calleary's amendment No. 5, we debated the role of the SBCI on Second Stage and Committee Stage. In the course of the latter, I introduced a comprehensive new Part 3 to the Bill. This contains provision for the SBCI to work with the Minister through this legislation to continue to enhance the provision of credit to SMEs and to provide a role for the Minister to be able...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 19, after line 28, to insert the following: "PART 4 UNRELATED MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ENACTMENTS Amendment of section 101 of Employment Equality Act 1998 17. Section 101 of the Employment Equality Act 1998 is amended by the insertion of the following subsection: “(4A) (a) Where an employee refers— (i) a case or...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 7:In page 19, after line 28, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 34 of National Minimum Wage Act 2000 18. Section 34 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is amended, in subsection (6) (inserted by section 52(1) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 7 to, the Workplace Relations Act 2015), by renumbering that subsection as subsection (7).".

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 8:In page 19, after line 28, to insert the following:“Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 2015 19. The Workplace Relations Act 2015 is amended—(a) in section 37, by the insertion of the following subsection:“(3) This section shall not apply in relation to an offence committed, or alleged to have been committed, before the commencement of this...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 9:In page 19, after line 28, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 916 of Companies Act 2014 20. Section 916 of the Companies Act 2014 is amended, in subsection (1), by the substitution of "section 915(1)" for "section 915(2)".".

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: In the House last November I stated the Government's view that finance was the lifeblood of every business and, in particular, was essential for working capital and in feeding investment, expansion, growth and job creation. The Government has focused on all of these elements in the past five years and the results are now being seen the length and breadth of the country. In 2012 the...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: I will not dignify this contrived and shambolic attempt to occupy the moral high ground with a response of any great length. I was named yesterday by Deputy Finian McGrath as someone who had used a "get-out clause to make appointments". I want to make some points in reply to that charge. They do not have a party Whip in Deputy Finian McGrath's new group, but the Independent Alliance...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: Done.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: The Living Wage concept is grounded in the idea that a person’s wage should be sufficient to maintain a safe, decent standard of living. At an individual level the resources required to achieve a minimum essential standard of living is very dependent on family circumstances and thus the interaction of individual earnings with household income and State-provided supports such as Child...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: The Statement of Government Priorities, July 2014 committed to conduct a study on the prevalence of zero hour contracts among Irish employers and their impact on employees and make policy recommendations to Government on foot of this. The University of Limerick was appointed in February 2015, following a competitive tendering process, to carry out a study into the prevalence of zero hour...