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Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...the weeks and months to come, notwithstanding the efforts being made by the Minister. I presume the Minister expects this as well. Can the Minister therefore put on the record what other measures he feels he has in his toolbox that he will be able to deploy against these ever-rising and escalating price increases and the impact they will have on our everyday lives and on the cost of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...continue to suffer. I have worked with the Dignity4Patients group for many years and I know many of the survivors personally. They have suffered more than anyone should. Many of the men feel they are being retraumatised as the legal rows rumble on, completely oblivious to their pain and suffering. Will the Minister intervene with the HSE and urge the religious order to do the right...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...population in excess of 130,000 and growing. We should spare a thought for the young retail worker, childcare worker or single mother operating within thisHunger Games-style rental market. Imagine the feeling when they click on to a room-to-rent advertisement that has more than 2,000 views or when the prospective landlord tells them that he or she had 500-plus other inquiries about a...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...may have arisen in Departments. A protected disclosure may be made to a Minister. We do not know who is investigating it in the Department and confidentiality can become a problem. People can feel that they are victimised and targeted and retraumatised, having first been traumatised first by what they saw or experienced in a Department or agency. It is important that there be...

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

Gerald Nash: ...in the long term. I was never comfortable with any of the changes made in recent years to building standards. I made that point at the time. That ought to be addressed. We need to empower renters to make them feel that their house is their home, tackle the affordability crisis and fundamentally change how we think about renting in this country. We will not oppose this Bill, but...

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

Gerald Nash: ...is a dichotomy between the functions, roles and responsibilities of a secretarial assistant working with a Senator and those of a secretarial assistant working with a Deputy. The Minister probably feels under considerable pressure this afternoon. He is facing the serried ranks of the Opposition but as Deputy Shortall pointed out, all Government Deputies are probably of the view that...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...challenge of our time. It is existential and beyond urgent, though one wonders if that reality has dawned on many of those who attended COP26 in Glasgow. The scale of the task facing us can often feel completely overwhelming. It is understandable that we as individual citizens might say, "This is too big for me; nothing I can do can change anything", but this is simply untrue. We...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: .... I would be so grateful if you could get back to me. I have seen the pictures. They are emblematic of the problem we are experiencing day in, day out, and all of the cases we get. I will of course get back to her but we feel powerless to support our constituents in situations like this because of all the reasons outlined by the earlier contributors. What I just read into the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (22 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...area made up of Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and south Drogheda, we are entitled to expect more. We are entitled to expect a full-time Garda station for these citizens and taxpayers to help them feel more secure and support what is a great community that is set to develop further over the next few years.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (16 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a recent remote working report (details supplied) in which 88% of civil servants surveyed indicated that they feel as effective when working remotely as they are during normal working arrangements and that three-quarters of staff surveyed indicated that they would like to continue to access remote working in the future if...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Tests (22 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: Drogheda urgently needs a Covid-19 testing centre. I thank the 1,307 people who signed a petition on this matter that I launched several days ago. That shows the depth of feeling in the area and the need for a testing centre in Ireland’s largest town. It is a travesty that Ireland's largest town does not have a Covid-19 testing centre. The population of Drogheda town alone is in...

Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...accept it or not, between the most recent general election and the election of the current Government. It is in the nature of transitional arrangements that they are not perfect. They may very well be clunky. They may have anomalous aspects that make many of us feel uncomfortable, such as having persons who are not Members of either House addressing the House as a Minister. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...and conditions and bust trade union activity in factories and workplaces throughout this country, and that is a route to economic recovery, they are sadly mistaken. Does the Minister of State feel that it is time to finally and ultimately grasp that collective bargaining mettle in this country and that, whether the initiative will come from the EU or from Ireland, we finally address...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...Timesthis weekend of The Economics of Belonging by Martin Sandbu. He cited a particular relevant passage, which I will read out. It states “Those turning against the western order are those who feel left behind in it, but not just that: they feel left behind by their own – betrayed by the elites who constructed the system and were entrusted with making it deliver.”...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (13 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...the institute who were balloted for industrial action voted to strike. This illustrates the depth of anger and frustration among academic staff. My view is that staff across the entire institute feel the same. The atmosphere is toxic and poisonous. Staff who want to see the institute meet its potential must be backed. This is a fight for the future of not just Dundalk Institute of...

Seanad: Protection of Employment (Measures to Counter False Self-Employment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...of bogus self-employment by ensuring that, for example, those who are evading or avoiding their PRSI responsibilities to the State and to their own employees are disincentivised to do so and feel the full force of the law. That is why we want to reform this law with regard to the State's attitude to evasion and avoidance of PRSI. That is a matter to which we will return later. In the...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...reminded the House that the Minister of State was elected almost 20 years ago to serve at local government level. That means I was elected 20 years ago to serve at local government level too but I feel so young, as I am sure the Minister of State does.

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Garda Deployment (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...at them and their behaviour to ensure Drogheda is safe place in which to live, do business and raise a family. At present, far too many people in certain areas of Drogheda are under a self-imposed curfew because they feel they cannot go out in the streets after dark because of the fear at large in the community.

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Garda Deployment (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...to be in improved or implemented in a different way. However, I thank the Minister of State for the response. Many more gardaí need to be deployed to the Drogheda area to make sure that people feel safe. This is a time members of the public should support the work of the Garda. In this context, I was surprised to hear that a local Sinn Féin Deputy took to the airwaves last...

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...to drive down the pay and terms and conditions of workers. I have argued to death with economists about data and trends on casualisation of work in this country over the past 20 years or so. Some do not feel there is a particular problem and argue that the data have remained consistent over the years. That may be the case in relation to the headline figures but the composition has...