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Topical Issue Debate: Living City Initiative (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise with the Minister of State the possibility of using the Finance Act, in particular the Living City initiative contained within the Act, as a blueprint for the regeneration of towns and villages throughout the country. I acknowledge that this initiative was limited to the cities of Limerick and Waterford. It was most welcome but I also welcome the announcement which succeeded...

Topical Issue Debate: Living City Initiative (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: I am glad the Minister of State did not do so, given its content. I do not in any way advocate a return to section 23 - the Department might well have concerns about that. Many people would, because to return to that section would merely be to go back to what was wrong without having learned anything. What was introduced in the Living City initiative was very targeted, as the Minister of...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion which, I believe, is a shameless attempt to hijack the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lock-out to promote a range of agenda as colourful and meaningless as the Technical Group collective. The 1913 Lock-out has an honourable place in Irish history and the terrible events of that tumultuous period...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: Paddy Hogan was a major player in the trade union movement on a national level and his passion for workers’ rights meant that he stayed to fight for workers’ rights throughout the bitter Civil War in which he did not partake. During the Civil War there was a blockade of Ennis and Hogan reacted by appropriating supplies for distribution among the labourers of the town who could...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: I thought there were a lot of signatures of Deputy Higgins’s Technical Group colleagues. President Kennedy did many bad things but he also did some good things and it seems that Deputy Higgins and some members of the Technical Group are completely incapable of seeing any good wherever it arises. They only see the difficulties, unless of course perhaps in an ideologically pure state,...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: If Deputy Higgins does not mind, I am speaking about Paddy Hogan. He was my predecessor in the Clare Labour Party. I think of Hogan as a practical man who provided good and responsible leadership in times of great hardship. He was not a reckless demagogue who misleads people with false promises of an El Dorado that simply cannot be achieved. The proposers of the motion seek to cast...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: Like bad generals they lead their troops to the top of the hill and promptly abandon them and scatter for the officer’s mess. Decent turf cutters have been brought into conflict with the Garda and the courts. Unfortunate householders who listened to the false gods now face higher household charge penalties and possibly court action. Responsible trade unionists who negotiate long and...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: Property prices only go up.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Michael McNamara: I agree with much of what Deputy Catherine Murphy said, especially her condemnation of the antics of the group that parked its van outside the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It is a tragedy when an expectant mother forms the belief that she cannot carry a pregnancy through to fruition to give birth to a life. The right to life is the most basic of human rights that this and every State must...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: Can the Deputy whip his own Chief Whip?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Policy (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will apply to the appropriate national and European bodies to amend the Rural Development Programme so that the Cnoc na Gaoithe project in Tulla, Co. Clare and other projects which similarly aim to promote culture and heritage conservation are no longer subjected to the de minimis rule when this is not required by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when all teenage offenders will be taken out of St Patrick's Institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32479/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 187. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when extra specialised training should be offered to staff in facilities housing juvenile offenders, when extra personnel trained to deal with young offenders will be employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32480/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: I wish to speak on subsection 22(4).

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: The right-to-life provisions, which are contained in practically every constitution in the world, require the criminalisation of the unlawful killing of human beings. The Irish Constitution is fairly unusual in that it affords an equal right to life to the unborn. If one criminalises the unlawful killing of people while giving the unborn an equal right to life, it is hard to see how one can...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: I refer to the avoidance of doubt clause in section 22(4). I greatly appreciate the clear intention of the clause and support the Bill, which is about removing doubt about the procedures of which pregnant women can avail, the circumstances in which they can avail of them and, most importantly, the procedures medical personnel can carry out without facing the risk of criminal prosecution....

Business of Dáil (5 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: The Deputy must be under pressure elsewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (9 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a decision on an appeal in respect of an application for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33357/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme Projects (9 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 386. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will apply to the appropriate national and European bodies to amend the rural development programme so that the Irish Landmark Trust and other organisations which similarly aim to promote culture and heritage conservation are no longer subjected to the de minimis rule when this is not required by Article 107 3 (d)...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (9 Jul 2013)

Michael McNamara: 395. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the Doolin sewage treatment plant will be included in the current water services investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33349/13]