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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I withdraw what I said. I said the topics on the agenda.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Maybe if the Deputy had looked at them seriously-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy guillotined things.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I was actually reading the minutes I took on Dáil reform since becoming a Whip in 2002. I apologise to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I am glad that I did not have a-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I am delighted-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Yes. It went to the Cabinet.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I was on the Cabinet's-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I am correcting the record.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Had I read them, and as Deputy Martin stated, the only reforms that his Government-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Would I be right in saying that the Deputy sat on the Cabinet from June 1997 until 2011?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The only reforms that his Government introduced were Leaders' Questions and the abolition of the dual mandate.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy mentioned these himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The only two issues Deputy Martin mentioned were-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: In respect of Dáil reform, Leaders' Questions and the dual mandate were the only changes that were made between June 1997 and February 2011.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I will outline some of the changes-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: -----that we have introduced, just to remind the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Additional Leaders' Questions on Thursday, the replacement of the outmoded Adjournment debates by Topical Issue debates, Friday sittings, allowing Deputies to approach the Ceann Comhairle if they are not satisfied with replies to parliamentary questions and restructuring Oireachtas committees from 25 to 16. It used to be a case of jobs for the boys and €10,000 per year under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: We have provided a pre-legislative system and introduced the examination of economic recovery by Oireachtas committees. Last September saw the introduction of the pre-legislative phase at committee level, there was First Stage of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Kehoe: -----Private Members' Bills and an array of other changes that we have introduced in only two and a half years. Deputy Martin sat at the Cabinet table from June 1997 until March 2011, yet the only changes that Government made were the introduction of Leaders' Questions and the abolition of the dual mandate. I am not surprised that he is sitting silently in the Chair.