Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 June 2018

• Public Accounts Committee (0 speeches)
  AN COISTE UM CHUNTAIS PHOIBLÍ COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Déardaoin, 14 Meitheamh 2018. Thursday, 14 June 2018. The Committee met at 09:00 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy Bobby Aylward, Deputy...
  • Business of Committee (3 speeches)
    We are in public session. We will suspend for a short period so we can read the opening statement from the HSE which arrived late last night. Most of us are only seeing it now. Before we get...
  • Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (862 speeches)
    Mr. John Connaghan (Acting Director General, Health Service Executive) and Mr. Ciarán Breen (Director, State Claims Agency)called and examined.
  • Business of Committee (Resumed) (72 speeches)
    Before we bring in our witnesses we have some routine committee business to deal with. The first item to deal with is the minutes of the meeting of 31 May. Are they agreed? Agreed. There will...
  • Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (372 speeches)
    We will continue with an engagement with representatives of Nursing Homes Ireland. We will examine the 2016 financial statements of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and matters related to...
  • Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (319 speeches)
    Mr. John Horan(Chairman, National Treatment Purchase Fund) called and examined.
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (0 speeches)
  The Joint Committee met at 09:30 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy Peter Burke, Senator Rose Conway-Walsh, Deputy Pearse Doherty, Senator Gerry Horkan, Deputy Michael McGrath, Senator Kieran O'Donnell....
  • Business of Joint Committee (1 speech)
    We will begin our meeting in public session. I propose we go into private session.
  • Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (375 speeches)
    I welcome Mr. Masding and officials from Permanent TSB to the meeting. I advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute...
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement (0 speeches)
  The Joint Committee met at 14:10 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy Declan Breathnach, Senator Frances Black, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, Senator Mark Daly, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Senator Frank Feighan,...
  • Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (42 speeches)
    We have a quorum so we will commence. We have received apologies from Senator Gerard Craughwell. Today we return to our consideration of the impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement and...
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government (0 speeches)
  The Joint Committee met at 09:30 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy Mick Barry,* Senator Victor Boyhan, Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, Senator Grace O'Sullivan. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, * In the absence of Deputy...
  • Irish Water: Discussion (Resumed) (65 speeches)
    At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery are requested to ensure that, for the duration of the meeting, their mobile phones...
  • General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (61 speeches)
    This is our second session of pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018. On behalf of the joint committee I welcome from Threshold, Mr....
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection (0 speeches)
  The Joint Committee met at 10:30 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy John Brady, Senator Alice-Mary Higgins. Deputy Joe Carey, Deputy Joan Collins, Deputy Willie O'Dea, DEPUTY JOHN CURRAN IN THE CHAIR.
  • Business of Joint Committee (1 speech)
    I welcome committee members to the meeting. If they have mobile phones they might turn them off please. We will start in private session to consider a few housekeeping matters and a draft...
  • State Pension Reform: Discussion (113 speeches)
    I welcome from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Mr. Tim Duggan, assistant secretary, and Ms Helen McDonald and Robert Nicholson, principal officers, and from Age Action...