Dáil debates

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

3:20 pm

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Social Democrats cannot agree to the Order of Business. We too wrote to the Business Committee looking for time to be set aside for the Minister for Justice to come in to deal with the process around the appointment of judges, and the most recent appointment.

That has to happen and it must happen this week.

We concur with the point that has been made about the appointment to the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO. That motion is on the Order Paper because we are required to give the appointment our stamp of approval. The Standards in Public Office Commission is there to hold us to account equally. We have to be certain that it is above reproach.

There is a motion on the Order Paper to refer the issue of the horse and greyhound racing fund to the Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine. We are not at all happy that there will not be a debate on this House in advance of that, given what we know about the Irish Greyhound Board, the animal welfare issue and the fact that there is a substantial increase in the board's budget. This requires for there to be a debate in this House on that matter.

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