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Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: In the limited time we have available, I have to be straight with the Minister. We cannot and will not support the Bill, which should come as no surprise to the Minister. Our colleague, the Labour Party's housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, made the party's position on this Bill very clear. She did so both in the Seanad and in correspondence with the Minister. We are opposed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a policy issue raised by an Irish citizen living abroad relating to archaic list of professions allowed to witness Irish passports (details supplied); if he shares the view that both the list of professionals is archaic and particularly burdensome for Irish citizens living abroad and such professionals in foreign...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I share in the earlier remarks from Deputy Mairéad Farrell in wishing the Minister well over the next period of time without pre-empting anything. We all know that it is intended that he will move across the corridor next weekend. I wish him well and I am sure he will miss these occasions once a year when he is moving the Appropriation Bill, as the country watches in. I am equally...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Housing is the foundation on which a decent and functioning society is built. Precarious housing leads to precarious lives. For this and the previous Fianna Fáil supported Government's abject failure on housing, the citizens of Ireland and our society and economy will pay a severe price. I do not want to be flippant or in any way dismissive given the seriousness of the crisis we now...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the concrete actions taken by officials at his Department, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to intensify their engagement with tech employers following recent high-profile layoffs within the sector; if he will provide an update on the meetings that his officials or stated agencies have had with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will publish the planned White Paper on industrial policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to review any provisions of the Protection of Employment Acts 1977 to 2014 in respect of the requirement for employers to notify the Minister of proposed collective redundancies and the obligation on employers to engage in an information and consultation process with employees' representatives; if he will consider...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the next steps that he plans to take on foot of the Labour Employer Economic Forum High Level Group on Collective Bargaining Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (8 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position that Ireland took at the 1 December 2022 meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on COM/2022/71, the proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending EU Directive No. 2019/1937; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61441/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not including third-level students who are repeating first year in the scheme whereby student fees were reduced by €1,000 as part of the Government's cost-of-living support package; if he will provide a costing for the 2022-2023 academic year; if students in this category were to be included in the measure; if he plans...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: What Deputy Doherty is saying is interesting. It is a live possibility that something like that could happen. In theory, the section allows for that and it could therefore happen in practice. If there is the potential for these kinds of situations to arise where there is suspicion of contraventions, where full hearings do not take place, and these issues are then resolved, how might this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Even in an anonymised format?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 33: In page 54, to delete lines 17 to 24 and substitute the following: “(6) On an application under subsection (5), the High Court shall confirm the decision unless it is satisfied— (a) that, by reason of a serious error or omission, whether in the record of the decision or in the conduct of the proceedings, it would in all the circumstances...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Curial deference is not a phrase that we hear every day.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is a first for the Minister and it is the first time I have heard him use that phrase. It is a significant phrase, loaded with meaning. I thank the Minister for his response. I understand his explanation and the intention of this section. The intention of my amendment is to further strengthen the robustness of the legislation because those who will be covered by it are the kind of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: Would it be useful for the functioning and operation of the legislation to keep a record and to make that record available? There is deep public interest in the operation of this new regime. Everybody welcomes it and it is more than necessary. It would be useful to give some consideration to how that would be recorded from the Central Bank’s own perspective on the operation of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I do not believe that a plan is in place. I have been seeking a meeting with senior representatives for months about the impending changes that the Minister for Health is considering. I have been stonewalled consistently. I do not believe that a plan in place. The Minister of State referred to several important issues that need to be fully addressed before any transition might occur....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: -----but that is laughable. It is not true. The consultants counter that, and they do not agree with the Minister of State in the context of that assessment. They are the people we need to listen to.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: This is an outrageous situation and simply cannot go ahead. I am disappointed the Minister, Deputy Donnelly is not here and that is no disrespect to the Minister of State. This is an issue that has been on his desk for many months. The reality is that he simply does not have a plan for Drogheda. The Minister of State has seen, heard about and read about the letter from the 16 hospital...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: The impact of the changes the Minister for Health will make to Navan emergency department, ED, or Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda from next Monday will mean that "patients may die". These are not my words. These are only some of the words of 17 hospital consultants of my own local hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes, in Drogheda, expressed in what was an alarming letter to the Minister...