Results 1-6 of 6 for construction industry council speaker:Gerald Nash

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...of these on pensions and healthcare, as well as the onward march of digitalisation that need to be addressed. We can also use the fund to address regional imbalances in infrastructure and industrial development across the country, and ultimately pave the way to making sustainable progress towards a fairer and more prosperous Ireland. We in the Labour Party take a much longer term view...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...coming through the door. This could not come at a worse time for working people. It is jarring that the Finance Bill proposes to extend the special assignee relief programme for high rollers moving to Ireland to work with foreign direct investment firms, but someone whose industry was out of action during the first wave of the pandemic or whose employer had to claim the TWSS is left with...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...overwhelming national priority that it ought to be. Based on an average cost of €36,000 per unit, an extra €100 million would be required to ensure 5,000 homes are progressed next year. When some construction inflation is factored in, the package would probably need to be brought up to close to double that, or approximately €185 million. This should be the absolute...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...need our help but it is about getting it right too. There is still, however, a noisy bunch of ideologues and ideologically-driven commentators, who believe there should be less regulation of business and industry, fewer standards and less enforcement. They say: "Let us get rid of the red tape and all of that nonsense." I put it to them that they should sit down with the affected...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (25 Nov 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...the registered employment agreements system that was struck down in the McGowan case two years ago. As a Government, we have worked hard to ensure that the wage-setting mechanisms sought by the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, and trade unions address two matters, those being, to ensure that reputable employers have a level playing pitch when tendering for work and that standards and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the opportunity to come before the joint committee to present the general scheme of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014 for the purposes of pre-legislative scrutiny, an important stage of the process. As the committee knows, the general scheme of the Bill was approved by the Government last July. The scheme, together with the regulatory impact assessment, has been...