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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Is the Minister indicating that he is looking at this?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: This is referred to in subsection (7), page four of the Bill: (7) Subject to the Government expenditure ceiling or revised Government expenditure ceiling, as the case may be, where the Government have made a decision under subsection (6) or this subsection, they may, upon a proposal of the Minister, make a further decision revising any Ministerial expenditure ceiling for any one or more of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It is an issue which has been addressed directly with the Minister. The Minister has agreed to engage with the sub-committee on the macro framework.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments No. 23 to 26, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: You should sit up here sometimes, Deputy.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It was not during my time as Chairman.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister has said he will ask the draftsman about this.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (26 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose to send the following message to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the Ministers and Secretaries Bill 2012 and has made amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Issues (27 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 226. To ask the Minister for Defence the changes that are planned regarding the annual fitness test for the Reserve Defence Forces; if any changes proposed for 2014 have been brought forward; where RDF personnel are in full time employment if it is feasible to arrange the fitness test outside of normal working hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31264/13]

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: For a number of reasons I am advocating that the House should oppose this Bill when the question is put tomorrow night. It is clear that the Bill is focused on establishing further committees and creating an extremely cumbersome bureaucracy. The enactment of this legislation could lead to progress in the area of equality becoming bogged down for many years. In essence, the Bill represents...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy MacLochlainn is having a bad hair day and he should relax.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Another technical difficulty which arises relates to the definition of the Houses of the Oireachtas as public bodies. Neither these Houses nor the Government are public bodies. Sinn Féin may come to realise that if it takes up office at some point in the future. A Government is not a public body; it is put in power in order that it might legislate. The definition of Government as a...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Neither an impact assessment nor explanatory memorandum are provided with the Bill. In addition, no costings or financial implications have been supplied in respect of it. Deputy Martin Ferris referred earlier to former prison inmates and IRA prisoners. I spent ten years working in the criminal justice system. I worked on Spike Island, in Cork prison and in probation, pre-release and...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Bill would give rise to a resource-intensive system. It is very demanding legislation. Performance indicators and outcomes are either confused in nature or are absent from the Bill entirely. Regardless of the intention behind it, the measure is technically flawed and ill-prepared. On that basis, it should not be allowed to proceed. At best it represents a poor attempt at what might...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: My comments must be hurting the Deputy because he is shouting at me.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Mac Lochlainn is not doing himself any favours by shouting at me.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Bill is an attempt on the part of Sinn Féin to embarrass the Government, then it has missed by a mile. If it is an attempt at having a positive impact in legislative terms, then it has missed by a country mile. The legislation before the House is completely unworkable and I advise other parties and individuals in opposition to vote against it when the debate concludes tomorrow...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Applications (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a mobility aid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31481/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 669. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused respite care; if he will confirm that male patients are at a disadvantage compared to female patients seeking respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31830/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 691. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is on an urgent orthopaedic out-patient waiting list since 6 December 2012 will be treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32077/13]