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Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also welcome Natasha O'Brien to the Dáil and thank her for the remarkable contribution she has made since speaking about her own experience - speaking up and speaking out. It was a great privilege to meet Natasha this morning. I would not have met her if it was not for what happened to her and her bravery in speaking about what happened to her. This goes to the heart of the debate...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the advantageous (40% and 39% respectively) visual effects (VFX)-related tax reliefs system the French and UK governments have introduced to support their respective VFX industries; if he is concerned that these measures will create a competitive disadvantage for the Irish VFX sector; if he is considering any measures to address this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of plans by barristers practising criminal law to withdraw services on 9, 15 and 24 July 2024; if he will provide details of any advice his officials have provided to their counterparts in the Department of Justice following the announcement as part of Budget 2024 to establish a review process to examine the structure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when her Department will formally commence the Government commitment in the context of Budget 2024 to establish a review process to examine the structure and level of fees paid to barristers practising criminal law; if she will provide details on the reasons such a process has not commenced; if she will provide clear details...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Courts Service (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: A headline in The Irish Times states FEMPI rules have been unwound. That is what the public expenditure Minister said in his annual report on the operation of the 2009 FEMPI legislation, which he laid before the Oireachtas in recent days. Someone should really tell practising criminal barristers that the FEMPI cuts have been unwound because, in their professional lives, they clearly state...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Courts Service (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: Other independent contractors have had their FEMPI-related cuts fully reversed. Barristers have been uniquely singled out for what has been described as extremely shabby treatment. In some ways, the Minister is answering a question that no one actually asked. No one has asked her about the review of the free legal aid system. I view that as entirely separate based on a commitment that...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will focus on Part 7 of the Bill, which contains provisions on the retirement age of our uniformed services. The Bill will potentially set a concerning precedent, where the retirement age of our uniformed servicemen and women is left to the whim of the relevant Minister of the day without any explicit obligation to consult the workers it impacts or their representative bodies....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to amend the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 and the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 to give effect to commitments made to provide for an increase in the mandatory retirement age to 62 years for uniformed public servants; if the Government plans to apply...

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to have a debate, if we can describe it as such, in this Chamber on a highly significant report from the Commission on Taxation and Welfare. Quite frankly, if the Committee on Budgetary Oversight had not decided to examine the recommendations of the report, which was published in September 2022, I do not believe we would be having a debate in this Chamber at all....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Dereliction is a disease. It is insidious. It destroys communities. Nothing saps the confidence of a town like dilapidated, derelict, dangerous buildings. Vacancy unchecked is the gateway to dereliction. There are nearly 2,000 derelict sites in Ireland, and they are just the ones that have been recorded and have made it onto the derelict sites register. There is an acute situation in my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Derelict sites are the low-hanging fruit in terms of addressing the housing crisis that we have. I know the Tánaiste visited Drogheda briefly during the local and European election campaigns, but he did not walk down a street in Drogheda called Narrow West Street. Had he done so, he would have seen a case study of dereliction and things that can go wrong. He talks about resourcing...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (27 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 168. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the difficulty in accessing funding under Action 23 of the National Sports Policy 2018 to 2027 (details supplied); the actions that have been taken by her Department to give practical effect to Action 23 of the 2018 to 2027 National Sports Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27678/24]

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Deputy Michael McGrath on his appointment. I thank him for his service in this House over many years and for his kindness to me when shadowing him as I was the Labour Party opposition spokesperson over the last few years. I congratulate the Deputy but I must also warn him, as the Leader of Sinn Féin did, that this House and the Irish people will not stand by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications in the assistive technology scheme (details supplied); her plans to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the pre-budget submission from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the urgent need to develop a dementia specific counselling service to support family carers and people living with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/24]

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. We in the Labour Party support it wholeheartedly. After a sustained period of record rises, electricity prices are starting to fall but remain at around double what we might term "normal levels". Citizens are really suffering. They are struggling. I have lost count of the number of occasions during the last two years where people have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: In 2021, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, set up a review of the Derelict Sites Act. In my view, the Act is being brought into disrepute on a daily basis. It is a charter for rogue property owners to evade their social responsibilities. Three years on, we are still waiting for the Minister, Deputy O’Brien’s, review to be published. While we wait for that report, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is considering the development of a regional filming strategy, that covers both infrastructure and funding, over a ten-year period to enable the screen industry to be embedded in regions across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the membership of the derelict sites working group; when the report of the group will be published; if he will outline the key changes to the Derelict Sites Act 1990 that the group is recommending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-consultant hospital doctor posts which are currently unfilled at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; the total number of NCHDs at the hospital for the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26754/24]