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Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on the motion and we will not oppose it. Any day we debate a sincerely tabled motion in this Chamber to protect and support enterprise is a good one. I recall only too well debates on jobs and business in this Chamber, which were held in very different circumstances when I first entered this House 13 years ago. The fiscal crash meant we had an unemployment rate of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: When will the health service recruitment ban be lifted? It is affecting real people, especially the over-75s. It is June, yet, yesterday morning 33 people were on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. That number, unfortunately, has repeated itself today. There are 43 in Cork today and 34 in Galway, which is unprecedented for June. This is because these hospitals are not...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the difficulty being experienced by young adults with disabilities and additional needs in accessing transport to adult education facilities once they transfer from the special schools they attended as children (details supplied); what plans his Department have to address this anomaly; and if...

Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: If the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will indulge me for a moment, tributes were paid to our usher and good friend, Martin, by the Ceann Comhairle and others during Leaders’ Questions. I wish him well in his retirement after 25 years of outstanding service in the Oireachtas. I thank him for looking after all of us and our interests. It has been a pleasure to work with him. He always...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: This evening's engagement is with representatives of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to discuss the infrastructure guidelines and recent changes made thereto. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Kevin Meaney, Ms Ciara Morgan, Mr. Frank Newman, Ms Niamh Foley, and Ms Anna Cremins. Before we begin, I wish to explain some of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: That is no problem.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I apologise for interrupting but a vote has been called in the Dáil and, unfortunately, we must suspend for its duration.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: Mr. Meaney may pick up where he left off.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Meaney for his opening statement. I will now open the meeting to the floor, and the first contribution is from Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. Meaney.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: There is a vote in the Dáil.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy can proceed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the witnesses for attending. I thank Mr. Meaney, Ms Morgan, and their colleagues for their contributions. I also thank members, whose attendance is appreciated. I apologise for the earlier interruption.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 242.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to sign and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas the draft Security Employment Regulation Order which has been submitted to him by the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Freedom of Information (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 639.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made on an FOI request (details supplied); if he is aware that the delays in receiving the initial response from his Department and also the additional information requested based on an agreed amendment to the original terms of the request represent breaches of the Act in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 640.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date on which his Department first received an offer from the owners/operators of a hospitality business (details supplied) for possible use of the premises as either accommodation for international protection applicants and/or beneficiaries of temporary protection; if he will provide details in terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: 745.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons hospitality/retail staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda who are employed by a company (details supplied) have been excluded from coverage of the pandemic special recognition payment; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24979/24]

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: Making the case for the current ones too.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I, too, join Members in praising Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for his farsightedness in developing and introducing this important legislation. If I have one regret, it is that I did not have the opportunity to do that myself. The Bill relates to an area I have been considering very closely in recent years. I have always taken an interest in the approach taken by our comrades in the Welsh...