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Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...low level of social and affordable homes available, constituents of mine have been reduced to coming into my office or stopping me on the street and asking, for example, for references for private landlords for properties they will probably never be able to rent. They feel they have no agency. They have been on a housing list for up to 12 years. I feel, as a public representative of 23...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the plan under the last quarter of 2022 to increase the borrowing capacity of the Housing Finance Agency to help local authorities finance land acquisition for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53381/22]

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...will table amendments to further tighten that section on Committee and Report Stages. It is also important that the law is tightened in respect of communication and lobbying around development land and zoned land. That is an obvious issue. Of course, many of the proposals that were adopted by successive Governments relating to the ethical framework within which we all operate emerged...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...Ríordáin spoke very eloquently about the idea of a republic. In this country, we spend far too much time talking about a version of republicanism Irish-style that is focused on the political unification of this land mass on which we happen to live. Labour's vision of a republic is not about the fabled four green fields. It is about liberty, freedom, equality and universality....

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...from the late William Hampton to the Sinn Féin Party and that party's acceptance of it exposed some of the frailties of our system and some of the anomalies that exist between both jurisdictions on this island. It appears that the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, agrees. That was clearly outlined in correspondence it issued to the Labour Party in response to concerns we...

Property Services (Land Price Register) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...to speak in support of Deputy O'Callaghan's Bill. I believe it has considerable merit and addresses a yawning gap in the measurement of wealth in this country. All the evidence suggests that land, property and housing generally are inextricably linked to wealth inequality. We know from successive reports from the Central Bank and from various reputable think tanks that the vast bulk of...

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

Gerald Nash: ...over the next period to better insulate households against the ever-rising cost of living. That is a serious own goal from the Commissioner and the European Commission more generally. We do not know where this is going to land. We do not know how protracted the conflict in Ukraine is going to be. We cannot forecast the future, even with the best will in the world. Experts have applied...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the implementation of the land value sharing measures; when the measures will be implemented; if he will be introducing a temporary windfall tax in the interim for land that has been rezoned pending the delayed implementation of the land value sharing measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: The land value tax measures promised in the Housing for All strategy have yet to be delivered on. We have been told now that we will have to wait until next year for the implementation of those plans. Land value sharing was a key recommendation of the Kenny report and we resurrected those principles in a Labour Party Bill from last year. It is, effectively, as the Minister of State knows,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: Significant amounts of money are being made and have been made over the years by developers simply flipping land. Nothing speaks to the issue of the financialisation of housing more than the practice of land being bought, flipped, literally overnight sometimes, and nothing being developed. Genuinely radical measures, such as those called for by my colleague, Senator Rebecca Moynihan, must...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the land on which a permanent building for a school (details supplied) will be built has been transferred from the current owner; when a planning application for the proposed permanent building will be submitted to Meath County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3098/22]

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: Sometimes you do not know when you take off where you will land. That is the case, I think, with most Members of this House, and that is meant with all due respect. Deputy Gould is absolutely right about the preventative maintenance budgets of our local authorities. If we do not address that issue, we store up more trouble, ensuring that maintenance, building control and so on become bigger...

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: .... The intention of the amendment was to address the use it or lose it issue that the Minister, along with the Minister for Finance, appears to be confident will be addressed through the zoned land tax. The truth will be told when that is brought forward and we see what impact it has on developer behaviour. I reserve the right to resubmit the amendment on Report Stage. I must...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: .... Most egregious of all was the way in which so many sites that were good to go were sat upon by developers to take advantage of the developer-friendly system. They sit back and watch the value of their zoned land, with full SHD permission, climb in value all the time. What should have accompanied the SHD laws were strong use-it-or-lose-it provisions. The legislation should never...

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

Gerald Nash: ...trade unions, for example. A company does not get to call itself decent if that is its policy. It cannot define what decency involves. In the very same way, a firm responsible for polluting our air, land and water should not be able to make up their own tailored, customised, bespoke rules on sustainability. That simply cannot be allowed to happen and that is what this Bill is about....

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Gerald Nash: .... We have all acted with solidarity and we have done the right thing by our country, but we, in the Labour Party, differ with Government in respect of how we should proceed on the kind of Ireland that should emerge from the pandemic. Ahead of budget 2021 last year, my party advised the Government to do whatever it took to save jobs, businesses and lives and to protect the health of...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...today are with those people's families and friends. We must remember them and honour the dedication of those who put their lives on the line for all of us through a determined effort to make Ireland anew, to reimagine this country, to make a new republic, to shape something better as we approach our second century, to fulfil the early promise of this country, when the Tricolour was raised...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...This facility is very close to my heart as I have been involved with it for a long number of years in a range of different respects. The Tánaiste will know IDA Ireland recently purchased significant lands in Drogheda. Would it be the preference of the Tánaiste that IDA Ireland, an agency for which the Tánaiste is responsible, would locate data centres on the site? We have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...time, does he think we may end up losing something on the swings and gaining from the roundabouts, to borrow a phrase? My final question in respect of the corporation tax process is whether the Minister sees a landing zone on the horizon for Ireland that would allow him and give him the confidence to sign Ireland up fully to pillar 2 of the process, given what he knows at this point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Gerald Nash: That is fine. Is there potential to extrapolate, in as far as it is possible to establish this aspect, where this situation is going to land ultimately? I refer to the idea we may lose considerable revenue, as has been anticipated, because we are committed to signing up to Pillar 1 of the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, II process. If our minimum effective rate of corporate tax...