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Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...vindicate the rights of and deliver results for workers as employees and in terms of their status as creditors in an insolvency. The fact that workers and we as legislators have had to wait so long for these changes to the law, many of them first proposed by me in 2015 and 2016, is an indictment of the system. In any event, this legislation and these essential reforms are a testament,...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...financial terms the higher income earners, and just over €1 billion on the actual budget 2024 package for those most exposed to rising costs. This will end up stoking inflation and ensuring it lasts longer. Damningly, the pretence that budget 2024 is progressive did not last long. Like last year, once the one-off payments are gone, they are gone. As the ESRI has said, if we look...

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: First Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: .... We know that pricing structures in the business of retail are very complex. It is hard to definitively rule out the possibility of price gouging among major retailers, keeping prices high for so long with a slow rate of decline. This is what the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, more or less concluded last summer. A welcome and long overdue assessment of high...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...difficult to make ends and we know who those most impacted by the inflation and cost-of-living crisis are. A quick analysis shows that a single person on €75,000 who owns their own home, is up over €2,000 already, thanks to the mortgage interest tax relief along with income tax and USC changes. For pensioners in a local authority house who cannot keep themselves warm, it...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...less for the social wage, for schools, for hospitals, for childcare and for community safety. The tax cuts presented today, which disproportionately favour the better off, are as fiscally unwise as they are socially damaging. Throughout our long history, the Labour Party has never been short of vision. It was the resources we were always short of. On the evidence of this botched...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...policy and school provision policy pulling in one direction and school transport policy pulling in the other. It is high time the system was modernised and reformed. I cannot understand why it is taking so long to produce a report we had expected to see well before now. I will make two brief points in conclusion. I was getting phone calls a few weeks ago, the Friday before schools...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...the price for them. I saw and noted the statement yesterday from the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, concerning the inaugural meeting of the responsible business forum. I have been around long enough to know when I see a corporate social responsibility initiative, and I think we can separate out corporate social responsibility initiatives from initiatives that make a structural...

Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...of the child. Work liable to harm the health, safety or morals of a child would include, for example, work that exposes the child to physical, psychological or sexual abuse, work in an unhealthy environment or for long hours or during the night, or work where the child is unreasonably confined to the premises of the employer. The International Labour Organization says that more than 25...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...the reason for the other increase that is to be introduced in October has not been explicitly mentioned in the motion. I think the Minister of State referenced it earlier. It is to do with the long-planned and legislated for increase to carbon tax. Why did Sinn Féin not say this directly in the motion? That is a valid question. Sinn Féin has directly referenced its...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...is required. Where is the realistic and practical emergency response from the Minister? One of the emergency measures called for in this motion is a three-year rent freeze. We can argue about how long a rent freeze should last but the need for it to be enforced right now is blindingly obvious. It is a staggering statistic that for all the bluster about rent pressure zones, RPZs, and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...of covering age-related expenditure, it will not be at such expense. There will be difficult policy decisions over the next period with regard to the PRSI base, which is crucial to ensuring the long-term viability of the Social Insurance Fund, given the demands that we are very aware of. It was not long ago when we were talking in this committee and elsewhere about the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: I welcome Ms O'Loughlin and Dr. Moran. This is a process that I am interested in. A long time ago, I was persuaded that the best way of managing and understanding performance is not measuring GDP alone. GDP is practically irrelevant in any kind of metric that we might deploy to measure our own success or otherwise. It is very limited and always was. This is really about impacts, not...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...have been. I grew up in a State, as did the Minister, that was a very cold and hostile place for anyone who was considered to be "different". I use the term "different" advisedly. My party has a long and proud track record of legislative social reform. Everybody in the House, regardless of their political perspective, would agree objectively that the Labour Party has done more than...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...situations like this. The Labour Party is happy to support this Bill which addresses the blatant discrimination against low-paid younger workers in Ireland which has been tolerated for far too long. We believe there is no justification for asking young people to do the same work as their older colleagues for less pay. In fact, there probably never has. We have anti-discrimination...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider amending the long-term illness scheme to includeinflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26649/23]

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...about somebody they love dearly. The family are at breaking point - it is as simple as that - and they also fear for their loved one's safety. Their son does not need to be in an acute hospital bed any longer. He needs permanent residential support, and in the meantime, he and the family urgently need appropriate respite care. The stress, the sleepless nights and the anxiety are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise engage in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...new homes on the north side of Drogheda, one of the fastest growing areas in the country. That is quite typical of some of the indigenous investments that ISIF has undertaken that generate a long-term return for the State but manage to leverage other opportunities. Locally, we know how long it has taken to organise the development of that infrastructure. It is certainly not displacing...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: .... We also need to see timelines for ensuring that as the input costs are reducing we see changes in what consumers are being charged for the things we all depend on. We need to see something along the lines of what the Greek Government has done in sitting down with the retailers and food industry and agreeing, for example, maximum prices on more than 50 staple items in the weekly...