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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: My amendment is very similar to Deputy O'Callaghan's. It relates to the designation of rent pressure zones across the country in each administrative area, for the reasons that have been outlined. Rents are not just out of control in urban areas, which we have seen over the last few years, but are under pressure across the country. They are at a point now where they justify this type of...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: There is a danger of a bit of consensus breaking out across the Opposition divide, if I can call it that. I will not detain the House much longer, other than to say that Deputy Ó Broin articulated the point and the case well. I think the Minister of State understands what the issue is here, as will his officials. We would appeal to him to take cognisance of this and to try to address...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, lines 28 and 29, to delete “the relevant percentage” and substitute “2 percent”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 8: In page 5, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(f) by the insertion of the following after subsection (5B): “(5C) A dispute between a landlord who seeks to rely on subsection (5) and a tenant as to the appropriate increase in rent following upon a substantial change in the nature of the accommodation provided under the tenancy...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No.1: In page 3, line 26, after “2021” to insert “may not occur in the period of 36 months from the commencement of that section and”. The Minister of State will have heard my remarks and the remarks of many other Deputies on Second Stage regarding the necessity to provide for a three-year rent freeze and that is what this amendment, among...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Dental Services (7 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns of an organisation (details supplied) with regard to a new VAT interpretation which impacts on their sector; if officials in his Department or the Revenue Commissioners have discussed this issue with the Department of Health; his further views on the potential impact this interpretation will have on the provision of dental...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (7 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to undertake a comprehensive and structured review of all aspects of fostering in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59802/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied with the adequacy of the fostering allowance; his views on whether the allowance must be increased and index-linked; if he plans to review the allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59803/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if specific payments or allowances are paid to foster families who provide care for a child with additional needs in order to assist in defraying additional costs that might be associated with supporting a child with certain conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59805/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. As I think the Minister of State pointed out, it is one of several interventions this Government and the previous one have sought to introduce to address issues we raise consistently, in this House and beyond, in respect of the enormous difficulties facing our society and our economy in the area of housing provision due to a lack of...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Nervously.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his positive contribution. Even in a short time he has travelled a considerable journey in terms of articulating that political signal and making it very clear that he wants that issue resolved in the interest of secretarial assistants and the sustainability and attractiveness of that employment. It is always a concern with public service negotiators that they may...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: As the Minister knows, I spoke at length on this issue on Second Stage and I provided him with the wisdom of my experience as a former secretarial assistant back in the day. It was my first full-time job in politics so I have seen this system evolve over the last 20 years and it has not always evolved in a positive fashion. It has been nothing other than regressive for secretarial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (2 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Pensions Council is undertaking a cost transparency initiative in respect of the costs and charges applied to the management of private pensions; the details on the nature and timeline of the initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59674/21]

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I heard the Minister of State clearly. The variable here seems to be sea depths. You cannot compare a proposition in Germany with a proposition in the Irish Sea. That is the variable. Am I right?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is the answer.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is the variable. It is a demonstrable fact.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Is this to do with the nature of our shoreline? The Irish seabed drops off quite significantly. It would be useful if the Minister of State put on the record of the House his considerations regarding Deputy Boyd Barrett’s amendment. Much of the time, I find myself going two thirds of the way with Deputy Boyd Barrett. That is probably illustrative of how broad the left spectrum is....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 36: In page 10, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Limit of duration of permission 6.Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), where a planning authority grants a permission to which section 32A(1) applies— (a) ‘the...