Results 141-160 of 324 for long speaker:Gerald Nash

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

Gerald Nash: ...of the neck and mean it when we do. By adopting the kind of aggressive suppression strategy that the Labour Party proposes, the sacrifices that we make over the next while will be worth it in the long run. It will save lives, protect our health service and health workers, allow for a resumption of meaningful economic activity and minimise the risk of yo-yoing in and out of damaging...

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...State subsidies. They are all looking for some sense of hope, some sense that even in this dark time they can look forward to a future where jobs, businesses and prospects are secure. They long for a signal of a brighter, fairer future. The sense that increased spending by the State will drive better value and more equal outcomes is often missing from the dry, detached analyses we...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Gerald Nash: As long ago as last April, I wrote to the Government and the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, requesting that regulations be drawn up to allow the Garda to enforce travel restrictions against non-residents of the Republic who were transiting through or visiting the State- people were transiting through with absolute impunity - and those who had no business being here. Ten months...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Gerald Nash: ..., Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 8 December 2020, if the term "individual" specifies only one student in a room; if not, if it means many students as long as they meet the social distancing criteria; if the requirement for an excess of 2 m social distancing between each of the predefined areas pertains to a 2 m square bubble or 2 m around a 2 m...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...is an important stimulus. Regrettably, the very propitious lending environment we are in at the moment is not being exploited enough by the Government in terms of borrowing at very low rates for long-term capital investment. It is very underambitious to simply decide to spend an additional €500 million over the next 12 months, given the deficiencies we have in our public...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...this Bill. This is a Bill that we can unite on. It is absolutely essential in terms of ensuring that there is the maximum confidence in politics and in how we govern this country. My party has a long, proud and unique track record on ethics legislation in this country. In the 1980s we stood almost alone against corruption in local government and the poisoning and corrupting influence of...

Measuring Quality of Life in Ireland Bill 2020: First Stage (24 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...opportunity to present this important Bill. The Covid-19 crisis has served as a rare opportunity to reflect and re-evaluate what really matters. The pandemic has proven that we have, for far too long, put far too much emphasis on a set of narrow economic metrics at the expense of the well-being of our people, the quality of our lived environment and the strength of our social capital....

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...on the future of work. I was at that lecture, which was held in the Royal College of Surgeons in St. Stephen's Green, as was Guy Ryder, the head of the ILO. The President is an academic of long standing, having worked for many decades in NUI Galway. In his lecture, he observed that, years ago, if an academic wanted to study the phenomenon of precarious work, he or she would have to...

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...parents have a better work-life balance and are never forced to choose between their work and family in their free time. Our movement, as my colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, stated earlier, has fought long and hard for the right to, for example, a five-day week and paid holidays. Advances in technology were meant to liberate us from the workplace; instead, the technology...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...everything Deputies have mentioned previously. My concerns about the scheme are well documented. I referred to them in my response to the Minister's budget speech. The Labour Party has been long on the record as opposing this kind of initiative. It is an ineffective and ineffectual use of scant taxpayers' resources. As other Deputies pointed out, it is not just me or others in this...

Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (12 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: I do not plan to detain the House too long. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to the Minister of State's remarks and to discuss what the Bill seeks to achieve in general terms. I also appreciate that sections of the Bill have been long overdue, as well as long awaited. It is not too long ago since the media uncovered the fact that such ILP funds are not covered by European anti-money...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...and the status of a country whose future was at the heart of a reformed, social, Europe. I say this as a friend of Britain and who always strives and seeks to better understand the complexities of our long relationship. We all need critical friends, however. Make no mistake, the mirage of taking back control was all about the unrealisable fantasies of a cosseted elite in Britain,...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...the crisis as cover for cost cutting. It would also make employers, with the support of the State, provide tailored training plans to their individual workers as a condition of entry onto the scheme. This is the best kind of long-term support we can provide as a State to make our SMEs more productive and competitive. This is not only possible, but is actually happening right now across...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...none. They are so tight policy-wise that by the time this Government is over we will be wondering which Minister is which. Fianna Fáil has been subsumed by Fine Gael. The merger is complete and Fianna Fáil's long-cherished identity is gone. All of that being said, it would be churlish of me and my party colleagues not to recognise that there is much to welcome in this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he plans to avail of the favourable debt dynamics as cited in the recent Central Bank Governor’s pre-Budget letter; his views on the need to retain a long-term perspective regarding the social return from high-quality public investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...Ministers in advance of budget 2021 and the National Economic Plan; his views on whether Departments should seek to ensure public expenditure induces progressive structural changes that achieve long-term savings for the Exchequer such as the diagnostic hubs and community clinical hubs proposed in the HSE winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26737/20]

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...all well and good but it will not pay the rent or the bills and will not heat a house during a difficult winter. I look forward to the Minister's response. I apologise that I will not be in the House to hear it as I have a long-standing commitment to speak at a TASC event for the remainder of the morning. I mean no disrespect to her.

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...commitment not just at the next budget - it will be an unusual budget - but over the lifetime of this Government. To go about cutting now risks turning a health and short-term economic crisis into a long-term social crisis, with the Economic and Social Research Institute already warning against moving too quickly to try to rein in the budget deficit. Make no mistake, this crisis is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (9 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...feel that it is time to finally and ultimately grasp that collective bargaining mettle in this country and that, whether the initiative will come from the EU or from Ireland, we finally address this long-running sore in our economy and society to provide people with full trade union and collective bargaining rights, even if that means addressing it through a constitutional amendment?

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 13: In page 32, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Layoffs and short-time 7. If and for so long as— (a) an employer is the beneficiary of the wage subsidy scheme or of special warehousing and interest provisions under the Act of 2020 as amended by this Act, and (b) one or more employees of the employer have been laid off or placed on...