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Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on these resolutions here this evening. Like Deputy Doherty and his party, the Labour Party and I have been arguing for the application of VAT reductions on energy bills for some time now. We see this is an opportunity to help to drive down the ever-rising cost of living for hard-pressed families across the country. This is just one tool or weapon in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: The future of how work in Ireland is organised is one of the greatest issues of our time and all the research shows the real appetite for working people to have a genuine right to flexibility in terms of work. Unfortunately, the Government seems determined to go back in time through its deeply flawed remote work legislation, which will essentially give employers a right to refuse requests...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: We are only a matter of months away from Ulster Bank and KBC leaving the Irish banking market. Almost 1 million Ulster Bank customers will need to find a new bank and the same will apply to 130,000 KBC customers. Two weeks ago, the Governor of the Central Bank told me that banks are not ready to deal with the biggest transfer of bank accounts the State has ever experienced. The potential...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: Quite frankly, the Taoiseach's response is an absolute deflection. The Government has a Minister of State with responsibility for financial services. What kind of message does his answer send to the 1 million consumers who have to switch accounts? Tens of millions of direct debits and standing orders could be in disarray over the next few months because of the disorganised way that all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: You deflected in the original response. You have responsibility for economic management in this country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: Is it now the Central Bank's responsibility?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: It has a function to play.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: It ought to hold the Central Bank to account politically.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----and that is fair enough, but they should not pretend they are on the side of working people.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: Do not make overstated claims about this motion.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: This is about opposition to the carbon tax; it is not about supporting those who are on low incomes. That was never the case with the Rural Independent Group. It seems to have had some sort of Pauline conversion-----

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----to the interests of working people, which it has not expressed before. This is opportunism at its worst. Carbon pricing has a role to play in addressing climate change. It is not the ultimate role but it has a role. We are honest that we support the principle of carbon pricing once it is the case that carbon tax is directed towards mitigating measures to ensure we can insulate...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: We see that with our eyes day in and day out. Failure to act will effect agribusiness and the rural Ireland all of us in this Chamber profess to love. We want to secure, conserve and preserve that into the future to make sure it works. Is it too much to ask that we can have an evidence-based and informed debate on this most crucial of issues in this House? If we do not have an informed...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Deputies are entitled to express concerns about the way in which-----

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I would appreciate it if the Acting Chair would call these Members to order.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: They are as short on manners as they are on evidence-based policy.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I assume I will have the opportunity to use the time I have been apportioned.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will not take lectures from the millionaires opposite-----

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----who could not give a toss about low-income families in this country and who are using this motion opportunistically. We know they have always been opposed to the carbon tax-----