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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I advise the Minister of State not to rely disproportionately on the efficacy and utility of the JLC system, good and all as it is, for enabling Ireland to reach its obligations under the minimum wages directive, specifically Article 4. The system is important, and I am proud of the role I played in re-establishing its mechanisms, which are important for low-paid workers, but there are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: That was an excellent report from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and I advise the Minister to read it. This is not the first time this morning that questions were posed on Fine Gael's commitment to modest adjustments to Ireland's sick leave regime. I note the Minister did not give me a straight or direct answer earlier. It would provide some reassurance to workers across the country if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: This question is on sick pay.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: There is no doubt that some small businesses are experiencing difficulties at the moment. There will be challenges for businesses to wean themselves off the kind of corporate welfare that has been available over the last few years to maintain the viability of businesses. However, this should not be done at the expense of low-paid workers. We have a problem with low pay in this country....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: The ambition of the new Taoiseach to reset the messaging for Fine Gael and to go back to basics, as some people have described it, is worrying for working people across the country. This is especially the case if it is framed through the lens of worker versus business. That should not be the case. Quite frankly, however, that is how the mood music is being set. This is especially the case...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he remains committed to the agreed pathway for the implementation of a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17196/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: First, I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke, on his appointment as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, on her appointment, and the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, on his reappointment. Congratulations to all. I ask the Minister if he is still committed to the roadmap and the pathway to a living wage, as set out by the Low...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak in support of the establishment and the principle of both the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. It is a principle that we agree with the Government on. The fact we are establishing funds of this nature is something that would have seemed simply beyond us just a few short years ago. Fifteen years ago, the economy of our country was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: It has to be kept under review. It fact, the Minister should make a clear statement here today that he is actively considering deferring the planned increases in August and October, respectively, which will make the differential between retail prices in the South vis-à-vis the North much more significant. The Minister is quite correct. When people cross the Border from Drogheda or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider deferring the planned excise duty increase on petrol and diesel due for August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15013/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: On budget night the Labour Party moved a motion to seek a deferral of the planned excise duty increases pushed on punters at the pumps, at least until budget 2025 next October. On budget night the Minister, Deputy Ryan, refused to accept the Labour Party amendment to the motion and we have seen excise duties rise at the pumps on 1 April - "April fuels day", as it was dubbed by Pat Flanagan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response. I think it does make sense for him to review the position and defer the Government-imposed planned increase set in train for 1 August. We have had a 4 cent increase per litre on petrol and 3 cent on diesel. The Minister has outlined that. He has said, quite correctly, that the Government is not responsible and cannot manage all price shocks. This is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach means question No. 2.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I think it is parliamentary.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: He has been called worse.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: As always, I seem to find myself following my constituency colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú-----

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----whose contributions are always enlightening, as I think you will agree, a Cheann Comhairle, and I know the Minister of State will agree. As a former Minister of State with responsibility for business and employment from 2014 to 2016, I took a huge interest in the development of Microfinance Ireland and the various schemes it operated. I recall making some significant changes back in...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also welcome our visitors in the Public Gallery. I can see that they are all watching and listening intently because what we are debating here today is about our collective future. On Tuesday, last, 27 February, we witnessed an historic vote in the European Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg voted to approve the first-ever nature restoration law. It is the first new major EU biodiversity...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: With respect to the Minister of State, all we got from him this morning was a melange of disconnected words. That is what it was. Frankly, his disinterested tone is only equalled by this Government’s disinterested position on the delivery of housing for the hundreds of thousands in this country who need it and who need a change of approach and change of policy from this Government. ...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: We, in the Labour Party, very much support this legislation and we have been aware for some time of course that there would be the requirement for a constitutional amendment and ratification of the Unified Patent Court. Which way are we pronouncing patent? I am not sure. It is interchangeable.