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Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If it is in contravention of the Act and the courts find that it is, a change to the legislation will have to be introduced. Second, will the Minister use the Education (Amendment) Bill promised for publication later this year to reverse this cut on top of the 4.5% cut in student grants?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is amendment No. 2.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try to be brief given that people want to deal with a number of other amendments. Two substantive amendments in the name of Deputy Stanley deal with a range of issues. One, close to my heart, is to reverse the change that happened in the supplementary register system in 2002. I have no problem with a system that would ensure everybody on the register of electors had to produce a...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Quote away.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun déileáil leis an gné rí-thábhachtach seo ar gá plé práinneach a déanamh ar sa Dáil, is é sin, the urgent need for the Government to reverse its plans to cut the fuel allowance and household benefits package especially considering that the cuts coincide with sharp electricity and gas price hikes and considering the impact of these cuts,...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A guillotine is being imposed again. This was a habit of the previous Government. In the last week of the Dáil there was always a rush of legislation and guillotines were imposed. At that stage I argued continuously, along with the Whips who are now the Government Whips, that in most cases there was no need to impose a guillotine. Now we have a changed circumstance whereby the Government...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government did not put up the speakers.

Written Answers — Civil Service Recruitment: Civil Service Recruitment (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, despite the completion of the progress report on the Croke Park agreement which found that the total reduction in the number of public servants during the 12 months under review was 5,349, [i]publicjobs.ie[/i] has in recent months embarked on a recruitment drive for temporary clerical officers across the State...

Written Answers — Third Level Courses: Third Level Courses (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will assure the public that places on the springboard scheme in university are additional to previously existing college places and are not displacing places previously available to students who have completed their leaving certificate in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20530/11]

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. I will not delay the House any longer than required but again the proposal is that this legislation be guillotined but as I said previously, most legislation that is guillotined ends its progress naturally without reaching the guillotine. I ask again that the guillotine be lifted in this instance and that it be allowed to proceed. A guillotine should not be put on any...

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. These Revised Estimates relate to last year's budget and, in fairness, most of them have been dealt with by the relevant committees. However, at a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education, we had a discussion on the relevant Revised Estimates at which we asked the Minister whether there would be any changes to the household...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that the arrest and detention on 7 June 2011 of a person (details supplied) for tweeting messages which were considered insulting to the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian ruling families, was unlawful and in breach of Kuwait's international obligation to uphold freedom of expression as guaranteed in the...

Human Rights Issues (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the dramatic increase in political prisoners in North Korea's political prison camps, which, according to Amnesty International, now hold 200,000 persons; and his intentions to address this crisis. [20088/11]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun déileáil leis an ghné rí-thábhactach seo ar ghá díospóireacht sa Dáil a dhéanamh air. I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the failure of the Government to release the funding allocated from June for the local drugs task force interim funded projects in...

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I oppose the guillotine on this measure. I will not put it to a vote but the record of legislation since this Government came into office shows that, in most cases where the guillotine has been applied, the debate has ended naturally. On many occasions the Dáil has gone dark for hours on end. This legislation is not controversial, will not be opposed and should be allowed to run its...

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputies who are now the Whips for the Government parties used to stand here giving out about guillotines. At meetings of the Whips and in this Chamber, we said we will facilitate as much as possible legislation that is not controversial and that is welcome in most cases. This is such an item of legislation.

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We called for the guillotine to be lifted, not for the time to be extended.

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was announced with much fanfare that there will not be any cuts in social welfare rates in the programme for Government. Is it intended to introduce in the coming weeks another social welfare Bill to give effect to the cuts in the household benefits package announced yesterday by the Minister for Social Protection including the reduction in the gas and electricity units, and the...

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not asking for a debate. I am asking if social welfare legislation is being brought in to give effect to an announcement made last night which will affect quite a number of people throughout this country, the elderly in particular, and in terms of the cuts in fuel allowance also.

Written Answers — Youth Justice Service: Youth Justice Service (12 Jul 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the administrative structures of her Department will be finalised; the manner in which the work related to North-South co-operation will be prioritised in the development of these structures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19886/11]