Results 3,801-3,820 of 5,132 for speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would be interested to get a breakdown of the statistics at the different grades to see that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: If an imbalance was noticed at principal officer grade with, for example, 70% male and 30% female, and the Government decided it wanted to introduce quotas because it felt there was an imbalance and it was structural, is it legally possible to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is very interesting. All other things being equal, if there were two candidates, one male and one female, gender cannot be used as grounds for a decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Another issue which has come up in a number of cases in the HSE is geography. Can geography be laid down as a prerequisite as regards employment of a person for a particular job?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is similar to that. I was thinking about the HSE, which has a number of regions, and I was wondering whether it is stipulated that a person must be available in a particular region.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is only the senior levels in the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Are they all national positions?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am listening.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Senators have noted there may be issues around the financial powers of oversight and management by the court that the House might need to refer to on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There may be issues around amendment No. 244 which have not been put forward and which Senators might raise on Report Stage. I want to allude to those so they can be looked at on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin will support the passing of this legislation on Second Stage. However, that does not take from the fact that under the Government the incidence of assaults, sexual offences, theft, fraud and burglaries has risen. While it is welcome that serial offenders are being targeted in the Bill, the structural causes that give rise to the problem of burglaries stem from the decisions...
- Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Fianna Fáil may be in coalition with-----
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am not saying that what Senator Walsh is saying is not of interest but I really do not see what relevance his comments have to this particular section of the Bill.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I welcome the Government's amendment. Our amendments were trying to achieve the same end. There has been a very long campaign to ensure we could decriminalise those who sell sexual services and I commend the people in the Gallery, who have been campaigning on this for a very long time. The Turn Off the Red Light campaign has been very effective and very important because it has long been...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 31:In page 17, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:“21. Section 9 of the Act of 1993 is amended—(a) in subparagraph (i) by the substitution of “€10,000” for “£1,000”, (b) in subparagraph (ii) by the substitution of “€50,000” for “£10,000”.”. This amendment...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister of State for that intervention. We will reserve the right to retable this amendment on Report Stage if we see the Government has not brought forward an amendment of its own.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 33:In page 17, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“22. The Act of 1908 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 1 and 2:“1. Any person of or above the age of 17 years who has carnal knowledge of a person, who to his or her knowledge is his or her parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild shall be...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister of State for his detailed response, which we would like to study. We are probably coming from a similar perspective, but we want to be sure before making any amendment. I understand that the Minister of State is considering the matter as well and may table a Report Stage amendment on it. We will take what he stated on board and study it and we might revert on this...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sixteen years with permission.