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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...this evening: these are the objective facts. It is no wonder that the term "official neglect" is one the people of my proud small city are now using when they speak of this Government. The people of Drogheda feel like they are being trolled or gaslighted by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. I do not say that lightly. I have given the Minister of State the evidence, and here is more....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ..., they deserve honesty and leadership from their politicians. We can bring about equitable solutions to this challenge, ones which do reduce inequality and provide business opportunities sustainably, rather than increasing pressure on our planet. How would we feel if we thought the environment around us was in danger to such a degree that the plants and animals we no longer notice around...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...? Thanks to the housing issue, the concept and principle of the social contract have been shattered and irredeemably broken. When I speak to young people, I am always struck by the hopelessness they feel regarding their prospects of ever owning a home. So many of them have already effectively given up. They are fatalistic about this and I can understand why. Even those with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Estimates Publication (26 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...all those of us who depend on a decent universal public health system. There is a question, however, of accountability. That the Dáil would be expected to pass an Estimate which the Minister himself feels he cannot stand over is quite extraordinary. The reality is in any other parliamentary democracy, that simply would not happen. I do not even think it would happen in the UK,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...ána. I want to focus on Garda pay. At a time when a record 114 gardaí have hung up their boots already this year, when communities are in crisis, when they are demanding community policing and they are made to feel more secure in their homes and communities, the Government has stuck a few euro on the training allowance. That is a Hail Mary pass if ever I saw one - hoping...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...the costs involved in decarbonisation. These are people who are legitimately and validly scared of an insecure future and who struggle to come to terms with the very real shifts we all need to make because they feel they are carrying too much of the cost of the change. There is no doubt that increases to carbon taxes can be regressive and hurt the least well-off the most. However, they...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...eviction ban ended, we anticipated a surge in homelessness, and these figures regrettably confirm our concerns. It is terrible to see a 30% rise in family homelessness since this time last year. It feels as if the shocking monthly increases in homelessness have stunned the country and left us unable to take action. However, we cannot be fatalistic about this. We have to hope there are...

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

Gerald Nash: ...it with this country that we cannot seem to fairly regulate markets and ensure that our regulators are consumer focused in the way they ought to be? What is it about the Government that Ministers feel that all they can do is commentate on a situation that is putting householders around the country to the pins of their collars? The second demand the motion makes is for the introduction of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I believe that because of the arguably short-term thinking of the Government, once the €4 billion in once-off measures melted away in January, families started to feel the pinch. We know that the families who are most exposed to energy poverty are those on low incomes, lone parents, older people living alone and people who are living in rural areas. The final electricity credit will...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...to clear the debt they owe on public land they bought at the height of the Celtic tiger. One such local authority is Louth, in my constituency. It is important that the Minister has done that but I do not understand why he feels he needs to change Part 8 so fundamentally. It is a system that has worked very well over the years. I was a councillor for 12 years and it was a section of...

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

Gerald Nash: ...by some to be at arm's length. There are a number of layers to that, adding to the complexity for people who are already in difficult circumstances and working in difficult conditions, and who feel they do not have the agency and may not have the knowledge to vindicate their own rights. They may not understand their rights in this country. Creating this new tier is problematic. I...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...have been reduced to coming into my office or stopping me on the street and asking, for example, for references for private landlords for properties they will probably never be able to rent. They feel they have no agency. They have been on a housing list for up to 12 years. I feel, as a public representative of 23 years' standing, that I have no agency with the local authority. We are...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...speakers. The chair of the Irish Banking Culture Board, Mr. Justice Hedigan, said when the board published its Éist survey this year that more work needs to be done to address the deeply ingrained feelings of distrust towards the banking sector among the public. Mr. Justice Hedigan went on to remark that continued positive behaviour on behalf of the retail banks is necessary to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...than €1 billion. When we consider many of the tax cuts that are proposed, it actually will not even apply to people earning under €40,000 outside of some small adjustments to the USC. Some 1.2 million taxpayers will hardly feel any difference whatsoever. All that any of today's pre-Christmas measures can promise is a temporary respite. It is a few weeks' break from a...

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

Gerald Nash: ...doing the remediation work that needs to be done to make these homes safer, the more unsafe they will be and the more uncertainty prevails. It would be useful if the Minister in his closing remarks, if he feels it is appropriate in the context of the debate will tell us what we can expect to see with regard to the Construction Defects Alliance campaign in the budget in the autumn. ...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...of Drogheda every day to access appropriate school places. That is not right and that is not sustainable. Nobody can stand over that. I was really struck by one remark I heard made earlier that will stay with me - "her family feels that they are being punished because there is a child in the family with autism." Let us think about that for a minute. In a republic and one of the...

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...by a reference in a recent report from the ESRI that essentially, and I am interpreting this to a degree, stated that for many people on low and middle incomes the Ireland of 2022 is starting to feel like 2008 again. This is a comment and a reference that will resonate with many people. The difference, however, between 2008 and 2022 is that we have the resources now, if properly...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...of tax, depending on where the thresholds lie and so on, but they are paid less than the adult who might be working in the same shop, restaurant, office or factory. They are doing an equivalent job. Part of me feels that one of the reasons that is the case is those who are 16 and 17 cannot vote and, therefore, their voice is minimised and diminished. This is an issue we need to address...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...and so on but this Government has to make the case for same. It is also obliged, as the Government in this sovereign State, to do everything it can and use every weapon in its armoury to insulate as best it can those who are feeling the worst impacts of this phenomenon that we are experiencing at the moment. Much more can be done through the social welfare and taxation systems, but...