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- Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Ar an ábhar céanna, tá sé ar an liosta go dtógfar isteach Bille Ãdarás na Gaeltachta chun cúraimà agus feidhmeanna an udaráis a athrú agus a leathnú. An bhfuil sé ar intinn ag an Rialtas aon rud a dhéanamh faoi sin i saol an Rialtas seo?
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: An athróidh feidhmeanna agus cumhachtaÃÃdarás na Gaeltachta, taobh amuigh des na teorainneacha a n-úsáidfà sna toghcháin? Tá an Bille úd ar an liosta. BÃonn sé ann i gcónaÃ. It is like an old kernel there. Labhrann an Aire faoi. An bhfuil sé ar intinn ag an Rialtas aon rud a dhéanamh faoi feidhmeanna agus cúraimÃÃdarás na Gaeltachta, i gcomhréir leis an liosta...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It is just as well he is going to Australia.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We will wait until she gets going next week.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Defence his proposals to amend the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990, in order to allow PDFORA to have a limited membership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9767/09]
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Recruitment: Defence Forces Recruitment (10 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of members recruited to the Reserve Defence Forces throughout 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9768/09]
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: They do not call election posters litter. That is singularly unimaginative. One would imagine they could have got as far as calling it something else.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That just shows the arrogance of the thinking of the imaginative Minister.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And before.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It could have fallen into the bushes.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: They could spend it on gins and tonics.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Yes.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It has to have been one of the Deputy's colleagues.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I propose to share time with Deputy Kathleen Lynch and Deputy Martin Ferris. I welcome the opportunity of discussing this legislation. It is not very significant legislation. It establishes some limits for expenditure in elections but does not go so far as accomplishing the Taoiseach's commitment relating to either the cap or the limits. This will be dealt with by the amendments proposed...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Therefore, abuses predate the establishment of the State and city and county managers arrived after certain abuses that were indeed native, such as, for example, the town clerk who was illiterate who used his barber to take notes as he was shaving him the following day. There might have been reasons for the City and County Management (Amendment) Act and the centralisation of power in it....
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The 60-day rule reminds me of mushrooms popping, in that they all appear suddenly one morning. The idea is that nothing happens until 60 days before the election and then suddenly all the little mushrooms are up and off we go and we start counting them. That is nonsense. One Member with whom I am sharing time has not materialised so I will give myself an extra minute. There is a suggestion...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And a public one.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)
Michael D Higgins: One would want to be fierce unpopular.