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Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...in Opposition. It was mentioned earlier, and some of them responded while others from the Independent ranks will respond later. Many in those ranks have sought to undermine climate and biodiversity action at every opportunity by utilising dog-whistles and straw man arguments to sow distrust and conspiracy theories. Farmers and those in rural Ireland will need strong representation and...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ..., the Government must intervene. I say this because in this country there is very little confidence in the regulator. It also seems that the regulator, in this regard the CRU, acts like a nodding dog. Generally speaking, in most cases it supports the interests of the industry itself. It pains me to say this as somebody who believes in markets but I am also somebody who believes in...

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...radical reform of the insurance sector more generally. We should not have to wait until the third quarter of 2021, as is being proposed, to even consider legislating to decisively deal with something that the dogs on the street know is a problem. As Deputy Doherty pointed out, we are yet again playing catch-up. The UK regulator has made an important intervention in this space and in the...

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...Prime Minister Johnson were at an "exploratory" and "embryonic" stage. I detected then that it was a half-hearted and anaemic commitment to pursuing such a strategy, but that strategy needs to be doggedly pursued. A degree of alignment with the UK on key issues such as travel, quarantine and the management of emerging variants should be paramount on the agenda at the highest level. The...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...be tolerated in any way or at any time in a society that calls itself just and decent. The people ultimately responsible for these kinds of outrages and problems are those at the tops of these groups. The dogs on the street know who they are and it should be possible to haul them before the courts and deprive them of their liberty on the opinion evidence of a Garda chief superintendent,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (13 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...of Technology. This is why Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, members in the institute have voted to stand up and be counted by taking strike action next Tuesday. They are confounded by the dog-in-the-manger and autocratic attitude of the college leadership that has seen technological university status effectively binned against the express wishes of staff. My information is that any...

Seanad: Crime Policy: Motion (2 Oct 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...the Hardmans Gardens area of Drogheda in April for the Commissioner and the Department to commit to deploying badly needed additional Garda resources in the form of 25 additional personnel in the town. The dogs on the street know who is running these gangs and who is involved, yet it seems that the powers the Oireachtas provides to the system in the context of the Criminal Justice Act...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...Council in 1999 and defended it successfully in 2004. Much of that election debate and the canvassing campaign was about addressing invented issues. People felt they had free reign to debate issues in a dog-whistle way. They felt they had licence to do so because of the referendum. I have listened very intently to Senator McDowell, the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Job Losses (23 Oct 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...Authentic Food Company's plant in Dundalk went into interim liquidation. The staff of 180, some of whom have given up to 25 years of loyal service to the factory, look set to lose their jobs. The dogs on the street knew for some time that things were not right. Appeals from staff for clarity about the future intentions of the company fell, unfortunately, on deaf ears in recent months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...of understanding that would enforce the employment rights of this scheme. There was a problem, there is a problem and there continues to be a problem with certain agencies. They have adopted a dog in a manger attitude in terms of the operation of this scheme. In some respects they have exploited and abused people who have chosen to work in this country in difficult circumstances and in...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Gerald Nash: ...is a budget that was hammered together by a party that is in office, but not in power, supported by an outfit that lusts for power but is incapable of taking responsibility, at least until it becomes top dog, and with the pointless passengers from the Independent Alliance in the back seat, who do not seem to have much of a clue about how to manage the power they have. The Minister for...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Gerald Nash: ...the political atmosphere. It simply does everyone a disservice. Sinn Féin would rather play on people's fears than work with them for a better future. Its quest for power reminds me of the dog that chases the car - he would not know what to do with one if he caught it. On some occasions, the dog is so focused on catching the car, he eventually gets run over.

Water and Sewerage Services (16 Jun 2011)

Gerald Nash: ...to an annual series of denials of the inevitable until the poisoned chalice was handed over to a hapless member of the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Féin washed its hands of the issue. The dogs in the street know that Stormont will soon be introducing water charges with the agreement of Sinn Féin for the same reason as they are being introduced here, namely, they are an economic...