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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: Undoubtedly, a constitutionally and legally robust accountability regime is something that has been absent for many years. There is consensus across the Oireachtas regarding the necessity of this legislation. It is a good thing and everybody recognises the accountability regime needs to be strong and robust for all the reasons we know. Our society and economy have paid the price due to the...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have a straightforward question for the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and her Government colleagues. When the Celtic Roads Group contract for the M1 motorway and the toll in and out of Drogheda town is up - it ends in 2034 - will the Government commit to dropping the toll entirely? The word from successive administrations has been ambiguous, quite frankly. I received replies from...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (29 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW and An Garda Síochána have identified a site for the development of a new Garda station at Laytown, County Meath; if he will confirm when construction work on the site will commence under the relevant capital programme; the year in which the building will be completed; the estimated total cost of the project; and...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: The first time I ever spoke in this House, I called for justice for the survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of the former surgeon Michael Shine. That was 12 years ago, and the survivors still await justice. Shine is the most prolific paedophile to have stalked the corridors of an Irish hospital. The number of boys he abused between the early 1960s and the 1990s is the hundreds. Many of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (24 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the contract with a company (details supplied) that operates the toll on the M1 at Julianstown, County Meath and the toll at the Donore exit at Drogheda will end; if his Department plans to end tolling at both locations on the conclusion of the contract and on transfer to the State; and if he will make a statement on...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is a very welcome development. I want to raise a related matter which was raised on Committee Stage last week in the general discussion on this section. It directly relates to the recognition of the service of those who worked within our public health service, on the front line, during the darkest days of the pandemic - the people who put themselves in danger. They are non-HSE staff...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: We know what happens when we narrow the tax base, and that is exactly what is happening here. If the Government is to proceed with the plans enunciated by the Tánaiste, we are getting into a very dangerous zone. We know what will happen. We have been living with the consequences of narrowing the tax base and the fiscal challenges, to put it mildly, that has imposed on the State over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (23 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent ECB Financial Stability Review (details supplied); if he is satisfied that the scheme is sufficiently targeted and financially prudent in view of current conditions which increase the vulnerabilities of more-indebted sovereigns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58188/22]

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: "Rent price inflation hits record 14.1% on back of 'extreme shortage of extreme shortage of rental homes"; "Housing starts fall again in October ... [as costs rise]"; "‘Housing crisis is putting education system at risk,' say unions ....". Those are a flavour of the headlines we woke to this morning. Yesterday was a typical Monday for me, and probably most other Deputies, as it...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a proposed Garda Station in Laytown is included in the current An Garda Síochána capital programme. [58082/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that she has to increase spaces on buses available for school transport in County Louth arising from the additional funding allocated in Budget 2023; if she will provide a firm date as to when the additional provision will come on stream; the number of additional places that will be made available in County Louth; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport appeal case will be determined for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56889/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 59: In page 91, to delete lines 5 to 7, inclusive, and substitute the following: “44. (1) Section 46 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)(caa), by the substitution of “28 February 2023” for “31 October 2022”. (2) The Minister shall, before 14 February 2023, cause a report to be laid before Dáil Éireann on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his response and there is some logic to what he is saying. The suggestion is that many measures, and the position more generally, will be examined in the spring because it is inevitable that this will have to be the case. When the once-off measures wear off at the end of this year and we strip them away, we will see that budget 2023 proper will not have the kind of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I will withdraw my amendment but I may reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 6: In page 12, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 118 of Principal Act (benefit-in-kind: relief for bicycles) 8. Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5G): “(5GA) Where expenses incurred in, or in connection with, the provision of a bicycle or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I may reintroduce both amendments on Report Stage to have them interrogated further. On amendment No. 7, I am not fixated on using the cycle to work scheme to provide supports and incentives for families to obtain bikes. The principle of the issue should be examined further. As a society, we want to introduce young people to bikes. Those of us who adopt a love of cycling when we are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is somewhat disappointing. We are all familiar with the health relief system and it is something that has worked over the years but we have seen the evolution of the health system and the growth of allied health professionals. If this could be viewed in the context of prevention and wellness more generally, it would be a good investment for the State to include psychotherapists and...