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# dail - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Communications between Callinan and Shatter are ‘of a confidential nature’
Yesterday evening the justice minister said it was the Garda Commmissioner who informed him that Mick Wallace benefited from garda discretion.
# dail - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Constitutional Convention won’t discuss Seanad abolition
The members of the convention voted by 57 to 41 per cent not to write to the Taoiseach seeking an opportunity to discuss the abolition of the chamber.
# dail - Friday 17 May, 2013
Column: Seanad reform suggestions are practical but limit real bicameral change
While there are practical arguments for a bill that requires no constitutional change, it limits any reform across the whole legislative body, writes Eoin O’Malley.
# dail - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Taxi regulation, garda salaries and women’s rights
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is due before the Public Accounts Committee today.
# dail - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Personal Insolvency service will be available to gardaí
The Minister for Defence Alan Shatter said that there was nothing in the Garda Code, the Discipline Regulations or the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 which would prevent gardaí from availing of the service.
Taoiseach has ‘no intention of playing party politics’ over abortion issue
Enda Kenny responds to calls for a Constitutional referendum on abortion during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today.
# dail - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Poll: Should there be one TD per constituency?
Should there be one TD per constituency – or should we keep the current system?
Do you want to change the way we elect TDs?
The Constitutional Convention is seeking submissions on possible reforms to the way Irish politicians are elected to Dáil Éireann.
# dail - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Explainer: A crash course on how the abortion proposals will become law
So – we now have a draft ‘heads of bill’. Here’s what happens as the Government tries to turn it into law.
# dail - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Taoiseach hopes draft abortion legislation can be published this evening
Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
Cabinet expected to approve draft abortion legislation today
Coalition partners Fine Gael and Labour are due to set out conditions under which abortions can be legally carried out in Ireland.
# dail - Monday 29 April, 2013
Taoiseach pays tribute to former Fine Gael junior minister Dick Barry
The former publican and auctioneer from Fermoy, Co Cork was first elected to the Dáil in 1953.
# dail - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Battle of the Opposition parties: Gerry Adams takes on Fianna Fáil over ‘hypocrisy’
Adams rounded on the party for its political opportunism.
# dail - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
# dail - Monday 22 April, 2013
Oireachtas debate tracker KildareStreet.com back in business
The website, which allows the public to keep track of debates in the Oireachtas, was knocked offline by changes within Leinster House.
# dail - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Poll: Do you support plans to sell the National Lottery?
The Dáil has passed leglisation to allow for the National Lottery licence to be sold.
# dail - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Taoiseach will not intervene in Shatter’s row with judges
Opposition TDs today called on Kenny to step in after the dispute broke out this week over judicial independence.
Helen McEntee describes first day in Dáil as “emotional”
The 26-year-old said it was “an honour” to take up the seat left vacant by her father, Shane.
# dail - Saturday 13 April, 2013
Is Galway West TD Noel Grealish joining Fianna Fáil?
The independent TD declined to comment when asked if he was interested in joining the party which itself has denied it has approached the former Progressive Democrat deputy.
# dail - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Column: What a week in the life of a backbench TD looks like
Debates, meetings, touching base with constituents, heading up to Meath East by-election, organising sand bags, reading the newspapers and having words with his colleagues – Kevin Humphreys recounts his busy schedule this week.
# dail - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
Junior Minister admits banks have ‘hoodwinked’ the government
The Dáil debated a Fianna Fáil-proposed private members’ motion on the mortgage arrears crisis tonight but it was easily defeated by the government’s majority.
Taoiseach: No one will be forced to quit job if childcare exceeds salary
It disputes comments made by Minister Leo Varadkar who said that childcare costs would have to be taken into consideration in insolvency arrangements.
# dail - Thursday 21 March, 2013
20,000 people over 70 to lose medical cards under new legislation
However Minister of State Alex White said that medical card coverage of the over 70s population stands at 97 per cent.
Opposition TDs criticise ‘low’ number of local property tax exemptions
While 43,000 households were exempted from last year’s household charge, only 5,100 households have been exempted from the local property tax.
# dail - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Government expects “detailed proposals” from banks on salary reduction
Simon Coveney said today that the pillar banks had been contacted by the government about proposals to reduce salary levels.
# dail - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Ming points controversy ‘damages reputation of independents’ – Joan Collins
Joan Collins was one of four TDs, including Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, who highlighted the issue of penalty points being quashed. She said revelations about ‘Ming’ will impact on the reputation of independent deputies.
# dail - Thursday 14 March, 2013
Leaders’ Questions: Concerns over banks’ role in mortgage arrears plan
Micheál Martin also questioned the Government about home repossessions following comments by Matthew Elderfield.
# dail - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Hundreds of Travellers outside Dáil for anti-racism protest
A number of TDs have joined the movement at Leinster House today.
Roscommon county manager will take ‘all necessary steps’ to protect name after Ming’s Dáil comments
Frank Dawson says he assumes he is the official Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan had referred to, and rejects the TD’s claims.
Wallace: Ming should have accepted quashed penalty points
The Wexford TD says, however, that Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s actions don’t change the ‘bigger issue’ of systematic termination.
# dail - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Ming: I want my penalty points back
The Dáil deputy described what led up to him not receiving penalty points or a fine though he was caught by gardaí driving while on a mobile phone on two occasions.
Over 40 Traveller groups to protest at the Dáil against racism
Organisers of tomorrow’s protest say it’s in response to a recent upsurge in anti-Traveller racism, “particularly from public representatives and members of the judiciary”.
Flanagan to address Dáil amid claims he denied penalty points were wiped
The independent TD was asked if he had penalty points wiped from his licence last December but denied he had. He intends to address the Dáil this evening.
# dail - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan to ‘tell all’ about wiping of penalty points from his licence
Flanagan said gardaí contacted him offering to remove the points from his record.
# dail - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Enda Kenny accuses opposition of making ‘political football’ of disability cut
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
# dail - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
President won’t say if he would take further pay cut under Croke Park II
Michael D Higgins already voluntarily cut his pay by 23.5 per cent to just under €250,000 in 2011 but Áras an Uachtaráin will not say whether he would take a further pay cut.
Column: Ireland’s political system must embrace diversity to foster justice
Paying attention to multiple, often mutually reinforcing disadvantages, can help us understand injustices committed against marginalised members of our society, writes Clara Fischer.
# dail - Monday 25 February, 2013
Keaveney in talks with Ceann Comhairle to secure speaking rights in Dáil
A group of Labour TDs who are no longer part of the Labour parliamentary party are hoping to secure additional rights.
# dail - Friday 22 February, 2013
Oireachtas committee wants to hear your issues with social media
Transport and Communications joint committee has launched a public consultation process to explore the use – and abuse – of social media. (And you can participate through social media).
# dail - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Dáil votes to censure Mattie McGrath over abuse of parliamentary privilege
The matter relates to comments the independent TD made during a Dáil debate last June about the former mayor of Clonmel who is an abuse victim.
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