Ged Nash

Gerald Henry Nash (born 7 December 1975) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since 2020, and previously from 2011 to 2016.

[1] He attended St. Joseph's CBS, Drogheda and graduated with a bachelor's degree in politics and history from University College Dublin.

[6] During the 2002 referendum on the Treaty of Nice, Nash was part of Drogheda Young Alliance for Yes, an interparty group which called for a "Yes" vote.

[8] In July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, with responsibility for small and medium business, collective bargaining and low pay commission.

[17] While a Minister of State, Nash commissioned the first major independent study of zero and low-hour contracts in the Irish labour market.

[20] In 2018, Nash put forward a bill to issue an apology to men who had been convicted of homosexual offences prior to its decriminalisation in 1993.

[21][22] Nash put forward a bill in 2019 which aimed to provide greater protection for low paid workers, reform Joint Labour Committees and give the Labour Court the ability to set rates of pay above the minimum wage in low paid sectors of the economy.