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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if land reportedly donated by an organisation (details supplied) to a school has been formally transferred to the school; if planning permission has been sought for a playground for the school on that land; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13377/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...as the climate change tolerators. Undoubtedly, this has caused confusion and some panic. However, the nature restoration law’s aims are simple. It aims to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all its ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. Because it often goes unmentioned in this House as many European Parliament dynamics do, I hasten to...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...year in the context of the pandemic since this Government took office where the Government was able to deliver on its housing proposition in full. The ESRI will say later on this evening that that year put Ireland in the relegation zone in the European Union with regard to investment in housing, down at the bottom of the table with Poland, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina. That is no...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...homes are our biggest source of wealth and the largest asset most of us will ever own. We cannot, by definition, have a wealth tax that excludes forms of taxation on assets like residential property, land and other non-productive assets. That is where I depart from my colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, and others. Most wealth in this country is held in assets, not in income. The...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...budget, it is important that we take a step back and look at budget 2024 in the round. For the first time since 2013, when we said goodbye to the troika, the living standards of the people of Ireland have fallen. We are in a period of polycrisis, involving war, climate catastrophe, an ageing population and the challenge of meeting those costs. We have emerged from a pandemic that...

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

Gerald Nash: It is state-sponsored vandalism and the victims are first-time buyers and communities throughout the country. We have anything between 25,000, 70,000 or 170,000 homes lying idle in the Ireland of 2023. The Government is that switched off it cannot even properly measure the scale of the problem because it simply does not seem to care. Property and property rights mean everything for Fianna...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...was that if we won a Leinster GAA title, the school would provide us with the capacity to set up a football team but we were denied that. Thankfully in those 30 years, attitudes have changed radically. Ireland has changed, and our national policy approach to football must change too. Yesterday, the Labour Party met privately with senior FAI officials. It was a day, of course, when a...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...be introduced that could greatly assist in situations like this. The Labour Party is happy to support this Bill which addresses the blatant discrimination against low-paid younger workers in Ireland which has been tolerated for far too long. We believe there is no justification for asking young people to do the same work as their older colleagues for less pay. In fact, there probably...

River Boyne Task Force Bill 2023: First Stage (30 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...in County Kildare, the Boyne river flows through the counties of Offaly, Meath and Louth. It is arguably the most historically significant river in the country as it winds its way through the landscape of Irish history and prehistory, dating back as far as the first settlers in Ireland. The River Boyne is under serious pressure, not least from the threat posed by plans by a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: Land.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: That reliance on land and property further embeds some very unfair and inequitable tax reliefs that are available and perpetuates that situation. I will make one final point as I am aware that Deputy Moynihan may wish to make a contribution. We have had many debates at this and other committees of this House in relation to tax expenditures and the way in which we approach them in this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...should exclude or excise local property taxes from our taxation system but my analysis would be that we cannot have a taxation system that is fair and equitable if we do not tax both property and land. Does Professor Moloney have a view on that? Can we have a fair and equitable taxation system without property taxes?

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...should be about. Solar photovoltaic, PV, is becoming the lowest-cost option for consumers wishing to switch to renewable energy in most parts of the world but we still have work to do here in Ireland. This is a very welcome initiative we believe and hope will assist in Ireland meeting its climate action targets and goals. Our EU neighbours in the Netherlands are leading the way....

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...by the Labour Party, in the national interest and the State's interest, at a very dangerous time for this democracy. The Labour Party is a patriotic party. Our contribution to the modernisation of Ireland is a proud one. The Government, and its predecessor Administration, cannot be proud of these past six, almost seven, years of wasted prosperity and skewed priorities. In a country...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...any particular problems in terms of Part 8, or any element of it representing a logjam for the council providing itself with permission, for want of a better description, to develop on its own lands, whether that has been for housing or a critical piece of infrastructure. I have been sceptical about this proposal from the get-go. I could not quite understand where the demand was...

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

Gerald Nash: ...level is on the floor. I am also seriously concerned about the proposal the Minister is making in respect of changes to the Part 8 system. He is doing so in a bid, as he sees it, to expedite public housing on publicly owned land. I want to express my gratitude to the Minister for the proposals he has developed to allow local authorities to clear the debt they owe on public land they...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...was one of the weaknesses that the OECD and others identified in their post-crash analysis of how we do public policy in this country. I will take the Minister back to a report in 2018 by the OECD where it ranked Ireland a shocking 61st out of 70 countries when it came to parliamentary engagement in the budgetary process. The OECD felt that there was almost no revision whatsoever of...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...decent and functioning society is built. Precarious housing leads to precarious lives. For this and the previous Fianna Fáil supported Government's abject failure on housing, the citizens of Ireland and our society and economy will pay a severe price. I do not want to be flippant or in any way dismissive given the seriousness of the crisis we now face but, quite frankly, I have...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...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 world of today, in the Ireland of the 2020s, we simply have to face the facts that by the law of averages, someone we care about, someone in our family or in our group of close friends, took illicit drugs...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: International Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the land, properties or buildings the OPW or his Department have made available in 2022 for housing or accommodation for Ukrainian refugees or those seeking international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56432/22]