Press Archive
Construction Employment Order a major victory for workers & Labour movement
Thu Oct 19, 2017 - 04:13 pm
Senator Ged Nash has welcomed the enactment of the first sectoral employment order for construction workers today, based on legislation introduced by the Labour Party. This order sets legally binding ...Social welfare recipients at the back of the queue as increases are delayed by three months- Nash
Wed Oct 11, 2017 - 12:37 pm
Labour spokesperson on Employment and Social Protection, Senator Ged Nash, has said its deeply unfair that social welfare increases announced in Budget 2018 won’t take effect until March, while tax ...Labour's Alternative Budget will give a boost to working people- Nash
Wed Oct 4, 2017 - 01:34 pm
Labour Spokesperson on Employment and Social Protection, Senator Ged Nash, has said plans unveiled in Labour’s Alternative Budget 2018 today would make a real difference to working people.The measur...Shambolic response to Staleen repair left 60,000 without water for days
Fri Sep 29, 2017 - 02:52 pm
Documents released under Freedom of Information show no contact in 2017 between Irish Water and Department of Housing on €24 million Staleen investmentDrogheda-based Labour Senator Ged Nash has said...Nash calls on Government to publish 'if & when' contracts legislation now
Fri Sep 22, 2017 - 10:17 am
Labour Party spokesperson on Employment Senator Ged Nash who initiated the process to ban zero hour contracts and better regulate the area of precarious work has called on the government to publish th...FF must make their mind up over Budget
Tue Sep 19, 2017 - 01:43 pm
Labour spokesperson on Social Protection Sen. Ged Nash has called on Fianna Fáil to clarify where they stand on Budget 2018 following confusion over whether their Party Leader wants to see health and...Why will Budget ignore Carers, Disabled and Unemployed
Wed Aug 30, 2017 - 02:05 pm
Labour spokesperson on Social Protection has criticised the Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty for stating that she will not seek weekly increases in the Budget for those who aren't pension...Another empty promise from Halligan on low pay - Nash
Mon Jul 31, 2017 - 01:27 pm
Labour Party spokesperson on Employment and Social Protection, Senator Ged Nash has said that Independent Alliance Minister John Halligan has made another 'empty promise' on the living wage on the nat...Independent review of response to Drogheda water emergency needed
Thu Jul 27, 2017 - 11:38 am
Louth & East Meath Labour Senator Ged Nash has written to the Minister for Housing & Local Government calling for the establishment of an independent review into Irish Water’s handling of th...People of Drogheda angry and frustrated over cack-handed response to water crisis- Nash
Mon Jul 24, 2017 - 10:23 am
Louth Labour Senator Ged Nash has said that the people of Drogheda are angry and frustrated over the 'cack-handed response' on the ground to the major water outage in the region.Senator Nash explained...Government needlessly complicating water refunds
Sat Jul 22, 2017 - 10:00 am
Nash concerned that aim is to reduce number of those seeking refunds.Body likely to be inundated with Freedom of Information requests to Irish Water to gain proof of payment.Labour spokesperson on Soc...Government making hard work of Minimum Wage promise
Tue Jul 18, 2017 - 02:07 pm
Labour spokesperson on Worker's Rights, Senator Ged Nash has said that the government is making extremely hard work of their pledge to increase the National Minimum Wage to €10.50 per hour.Senator N...Government must come clean on source of water refunds
Tue Jul 18, 2017 - 11:46 am
Labour spokesperson on Social Protection, Senator Ged Nash, has called on the Government to come clean on where the €170 million to refund water charges will come from. Senator Nash is concerned tha...Rogue security firms should lose state contracts- Nash
Tue Jul 4, 2017 - 04:32 pm
Rogue security firms with State contracts who are not paying the legal hourly rate of pay to their staff should lose their taxpayer-funded work.That’s according to Labour Senator Ged Nash, who told ...Government must do more to temper impact of Brexit
Tue Jul 4, 2017 - 11:00 am
Labour member of the Seanad Brexit Committee, Senator Ged Nash, has welcomed the committee’s report and called for a number of measures to be introduced to temper the impact Brexit will have on Irel...