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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...very innovative proposition led by Louth County Council and property developers to develop infrastructure to enable 5,000 new homes to be built on the north side of my home town of Drogheda. That is a long-term investment that will have a positive social as well as economic benefits. Unfortunately, I had to step in to do the work the State ought to be doing in developing the...

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

Gerald Nash: ..., is the largest in Ireland. It straddles two local authority areas. We are a city in all but name, yet last week, a Fianna Fáil Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, again rejected out of hand my long-standing call for city status for Drogheda. A Labour Party Bill approved by the Dáil seven years ago, which would see councils like Drogheda borough council restored, continues to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...in relation to an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks and it is imperative that they comply with any such directive. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official, either by name or in such a way as...

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

Gerald Nash: ...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 than the Government is taking with this Bill in terms of the return on investment from the fund. The fund should be based on taking at least a medium-term, if not a long-term, view on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the LGMA and the National Town Centre First office will carry out a long-awaited collaborative town centre health check for Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 1595. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that some GPs are continuing to issue six-month repeat prescriptions for long-term medicines and medical devices, despite the new rules introduced from 1 March, allowing them to issue these prescriptions for 12 months; what he and his Department are planning to do to ensure that GPs comply with the new rules; and if he will make a statement...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise engage in...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...political representatives and to be fair, we get that honesty from the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and his colleagues because it is clear that adaptations are needed. Those who are being asked to help that process along deserve leadership from those making the ask and they are getting that leadership. They deserve honesty from everyone in this House. After some dithering last...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...over the next period. The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, stated earlier in his contribution that the original commitment was signed by the State in 2013. The idea has been around now for a long time. It has been on the agenda of successive Governments and we are finally here. While I might remark that they speak of little else in Termonfeckin than the patent court system, I do not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness who is physically present. Such witnesses may think it appropriate to take legal advice on the matter. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...lose 56% of its tourism hotel beds in March. The nature of the Department of integration's arrangement with the D Hotel must be re-examined. As the Taoiseach knows, the town of Drogheda has a long and proud history of social solidarity and tolerance of pluralism, and that continues. For the vast majority of the people of my town, this was only ever about the loss of key hotel beds....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: -----the local authority should be supported to use taxpayers' money to turn around and repurpose local buildings for accommodation and long-term community gain. Will the Minister accept my proposals?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (20 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...to call for an international declaration and statement calling on the Israeli government to lift its restriction on supplies of insulin and all other diabetes supplies and all other medications for long term medical conditions entering Gaza immediately; if he will detail any concrete and practical actions the Government has taken in this regard to date; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (20 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the draft design guide for long-term residential care settings for older people, recently published by his Department in conjunction with HIQA and the HSE, with particular reference to the proposition to cap future nursing homes at 85 beds; if he will provide the policy rationale for such a move; if he is aware of concerns in the sector that...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: .... The article articulates very clearly some concerns of financial advisers who are in the system now. They claim that the service has in effect “collapsed”, as stated in the article, which refers to intolerably long delays in having some complaints adjudicated on. It seems from the FSPO and from Charlie Weston's story that the average timeframe for referral of a complaint...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...the threshold as it stands. It would be useful for everybody to have clarity about the position. If that is to be paused, what is the reason? When can we expect the new system to be up and running? This was long expected, well reported and well articulated. Will the Minister of State put the position on the record?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...defamatory in respect of an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks. It is imperative that they comply with any such direction. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or any official either by name or in such a...

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

Gerald Nash: ...unfolding: the month-on-month increase in homelessness, working people locked out of the housing market and our young people leaving the country in such numbers. They used to leave the country not that long ago in search of work. The problem then was an absence of work. We fixed that; we fixed the unemployment problem. We have created the conditions to create the kinds of jobs we have...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: .... While this Bill is something of a housekeeping exercise, it is nonetheless important that we are having some class of parliamentary debate on it. The Minister will recall it was not that long ago when we did not have debates of this nature on the annual Appropriation Bill. It simply went through on the nod, sadly, a little like our Supplementary Estimates this year. I will return to...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...much away when it comes to the public procurement and tendering process. I hope the House will agree that is perverse. I say it is in fact the opposite. More transparency and more accountability along the way, taken alongside the sheer scale of Government investment and what that means for the State's capacity to shape the market and outcomes, is better for the process all round. It is...