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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...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a policy issue raised by constituents regarding the new corporate sustainability due diligence directive (details supplied); if he will provide an update on his plans, if any, to seek a strengthening of this directive to ensure it applies to a wider range of companies and their overseas values chains; if issues...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the Primary Medical Certificate Board; the number of applications that are waiting to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60718/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO8 area; if so, if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60163/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams in CHO 8, which impacts those living with neurological conditions within the Louth and east Meath constituency (details supplied); his plans, if any, for a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants who have left posts at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda to date in 2022; the number and nature/discipline of the posts that are currently unfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60846/22]

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I am incredibly proud to be a member of a party that has drafted this motion, and to call myself a comrade and a friend of Deputy Ó Ríordáin, who has pioneered reform in this space. It is beyond time that we woke up as a society and as law makers to the stark reality of drugs in our society. We have to face the world as it is, not as we would like our ideal world to be. The...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I apologise for being late to the meeting. The provision in this section troubles me, frankly, for a host of reasons. I have dealt routinely over the years with cases of exploitation in areas that I am assuming the Minister wishes to cover under the seasonal employment permit. As I am sure my colleagues mentioned before I arrived, it adds another tier to an already unequal permit system....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: When there were demands to review the permit system for non-EEA workers interested in coming to Ireland to work in the private nursing home sector or in home care, I was very interested in the Department's response, a response that I welcomed at the time. The Department, to its credit, after undertaking a review reminded the sector of its obligations on pay, terms and conditions for the...