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Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...passed by these Houses may impose a charge of some description on the Exchequer but that does not mean we should not be in a position to legislate. We are legislating on employment rights, land law, justice issues, and so on, all the time. They all impose a charge. I will reserve the right to resubmit the amendment, or something similar, and I will take up the question of precisely why...

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...supply, this budget objectively does not go anywhere near fixing the scale of the problem we face. Rather than listen to the 10,000 people who assembled on Molesworth Street last week, the Government caved into the landlords. Fianna Fáil really has some neck trailing this budget as a housing budget. It is not a housing budget but a landlord's budget. We are back to the future and...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...the long delays in the Government revising the 2005 rural housing guidelines as they apply to the local needs criteria. In 2007 the European Commission issued an infringement notice against Ireland in which a view was expressed that Ireland's local needs criteria for one-off rural houses are excessively restrictive and may be in breach of the treaties. The Flemish decree handed down by...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (4 Jul 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...are queering the pitch for decent security companies that are prepared to pay the legal minimum rate of pay to security workers. They value those workers and, as I understand it, that is the law of the land.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (4 Jul 2017)

Gerald Nash: ..., inspectorate. It is important that the message goes out that rogue security firms will not be allowed to continue not to comply with employment regulation orders, EROs. They are the law of the land. I have evidence of security firms which in recent weeks were not paying the new rate. I have advised those affected to bring their complaints to the rights commissioner and the WRC. When...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...criteria to qualify for a medical card. This is €10 million well spent and I want to commend the Minister of State again. It will give peace of mind to children and families right across the land. It shows what we can do with a relatively limited amount of money. We can give that peace of mind and certainty to people who did not previously have it. This legislation involves a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Safety (13 Jan 2016)

Gerald Nash: ...the countryside and are present in many parts of the country. The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine published Deer Management in Ireland - Framework for Action in March last year, which recommends a series of actions on deer management and conservation in a number of areas, including addressing the impact of deer in...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: ...1 of the Act of 1976 agriculture is defined as including horticulture, the production of any consumable produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or other use, dairy farming, poultry farming, the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens, private gardens, nursery grounds or sports grounds, the caring for or the...

Seanad: Succession (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Gerald Nash: ...co-owner and the second with cases where there are two or more surviving co-owners. However, this would probably be insufficient to achieve the Bill's stated objective without some reference to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. As the High Court has noted, the law relating to co-owned land has been reformed in Part 7 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. In order...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...rights, the status of Jerusalem and freedom of access to religious sites and outstanding legalities concerning Palestinian refugees, including resolving the problem of the right to return. Ireland and the European Union are committed to a two-state solution, which of course involves recognition of Palestine alongside Israel. I should be clear, if any clarity is needed, that our ongoing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate Mr. McCarthy on his appointment and I look forward to working with him in his role as Secretary General, I have questions on the land aggregation scheme. Members will be familiar with how the land aggregation scheme operates in their constituencies. I recall that a great many local authorities raised significant finance from the Housing Finance Agency to purchase sites in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the construction of a project (details supplied) in County Louth; when the land will be transferred to allow the development to progress; the proposed start date for construction; the date on which the project will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24085/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...whistleblowers would decide to promote this type of agenda by handing over the transcript to the point where nobody, with all due respect to Sergeant McCabe and his team, knows where it will land. That is a questionable position which I will not support. I am also concerned about the view of any such action that other whistleblowers or potential whistleblowers could take in terms of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I assume the Department would encourage local authority members and everybody else to pay the household charge and, indeed, the property tax, as it is the law of the land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine and Israel: Discussion with EAPPI (19 Sep 2012)

Gerald Nash: ...committee members. I found reading them compelling but difficult. I recall the incident he related to us about farmers who are essentially penned into the structure he described to access their own land. That was an emotive and striking picture. I thank Mr. Sheerin as well for his deep insights into the situation. We have heard strong words from the EU Council on a variety of...