Results 48,081-48,100 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Unfortunately, he did not answer my question. The only rationale we seemed to get from the Minister, Deputy Howlin, yesterday was that at a time of economic hardship, we cannot make freedom of information, which is an essential part of any modern democracy, free. We have received a very thorough report from Dr. Nat O'Connor which estimates that the cost...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Licence Issues (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs involved in opening each of the new 34 driving licence centres; if any American or overseas companies were outsourced to handle data of any kind in the set-up of the new National Driver Licence Service; if so, the steps taken to ensure confidential information was protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 30: In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(d) the principle of public ownership and right of access to a genealogical heritage and the need to facilitate, as far as is practicable, the undertaking of family history, biographical, historical and related research, (e) in this section, "genealogical heritage" means the collective wealth of records...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to interrupt, but I would like to raise a procedural issue.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It will take us a long time to tease it out.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 16: In page 16, to delete lines 11 to 23. The point of these amendments is to remove the power of the Minister to add bodies to the list of exempt public bodies. I hope I am wrong, but my reading of the legislation is that once the line Minister has agreed that the Minister can add whatever public body he or she wants to add to the list of exempt bodies, there is no...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I am seeking the deletion of subsection (3)(a) which reads: The Minister may, with the consent of such other (if any) Minister of the Government as the Minister considers appropriate having regard to the functions of that other Minister of the Government, and having consulted such committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas as he or she considers appropriate, having had regard to the matters...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Subsection (7)(a) provides that the Minister may, after consultation with the commissioner and such committee as he or she deems appropriate-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The paragraph to which it refers is not the one to which I am referring.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Where is that stated?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: In order that I am crystal clear, what the Minister is saying is that the order made under subsection (3)(a) which provides that the Minister may exempt a body must be ratified by a vote of each House of the Oireachtas.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Subsection (7)(c) states reads, "Where an order is proposed to be made under paragraph (a)...". That would normally refer to subsection (7)(a).
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Does the Minister believe it should be included under subsection (3)(a)?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: May I ask the Chair for guidance on how we proceed?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay. As it is late, I ask the Minister to bear with me. What he is saying is that-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I ask the Chairman whether I should withdraw the amendment? What is the appropriate way to proceed?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for the clarification.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 18: In page 16, to delete lines 34 to 37 and substitute the following:"(5) Where a dispute arises as to whether subsection (1) applies, or as the conditions arising by virtue of that subsection, the dispute shall be submitted to the Commissioner, whose determination shall be binding.".Under the EU directive on environmental regulation, in terms of FOI legislation, the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.