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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...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 4: In page 18, to delete lines 19 to 37.

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

Gerald Nash: My amendment No. 33 is included in this grouping. The purpose of my amendment is similar if not the same as the purpose of Deputies O'Reilly's and Murphy's amendment in that I want to see the creation of a new right for general permit holders to change their employment for any reason in lieu of the current relatively restrictive proposal in section 38 that allows a permit holder to change...

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

Gerald Nash: To be helpful, my understanding of this is that qualified nurses from another jurisdiction, a non-EEA country, who come here are here on the atypical working scheme until such time as they are accredited, have satisfied the conditions set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and can receive that accreditation.

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

Gerald Nash: Yes.

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 33: 33.In page 55, after line 40, to insert the following: “Change of employer 38.(1) This section applies to a foreign national to whom a general employment permit has been granted and who wishes to change employment during the period for which the employment permit is in force. (2) If the employment of a foreign national pursuant to an employment permit is...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 40: In page 84, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Atypical Working Scheme for Nurses 57.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a foreign national— (a) has been offered a contract of employment to work as a nurse in the State, and (b) has been given leave to enter the State pursuant to the scheme established by the...

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

Gerald Nash: I am told there is an issue. It is something about establishing their principles over here. My understanding - I hope to be corrected on this - is that there has been some engagement, some correspondence, with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation with the Department at some level. I am happy to sit down and engage with the Minister of State on that. There may very well have been...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have a general question. I would not put the Minister of State in a situation where he might be asked to answer a question about a specific case as that would be unfair and unwise. I have dealt with cases in recent months where the Garda Síochána has sent the book of evidence to the DPP, the DPP goes through the process and decides not to prosecute, and individuals who are...

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...