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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It should then be provided for in the legislation that, in those extreme circumstances whereby the Dáil cannot sit, that power would be given to the Minister. Being in recess is not an extreme circumstance. The Dáil can be recalled within 24 hours.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 21: In page 7, to delete lines 9 to 23.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, lines 27 to 29, to delete all words from and including “or the Government” in line 27 down to and including “section 9(4)” in line 29.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Colscaradh) 2016: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Sinn Féin supports the Bill and will not oppose any of the amendments. I wish to address the point raised by Deputy Donnelly which I also intended to raise. I am sure all Members are aware of marriages which, unfortunately, have broken down with no prospect of reconciliation, but for financial reasons the couple are unable to live apart. I do not know if that can be addressed in the...

Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (3 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I know this motion is to be taken without debate but in fairness the Minister responsible should be allowed to speak on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think there are serious questions that need to be answered but I am not sure whether this is the committee to get those answers. When the board appeared before us, there were a number of follow-up items which we requested but, to the best of my knowledge, none has come in, though the board sent in one piece of correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We got one item of correspondence which we did not ask for, relating to a building which had not even been raised at the committee. Some of what we asked for has not been forthcoming or, if it has come in, I have not seen it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: This was about being in receipt of legal advice.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Did the High Court not state that there was not a presumption that information should be forthcoming?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The court case I was examining yesterday, in respect of University College Cork and the Information Commissioner, must have been a different one.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It was a different case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: On what issue does he want to present to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: May I say something?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am a little uncomfortable with the line of questioning. I do not want to stop the Deputy, but a number of serious allegations are being put on the public record without any verification. If that is what Deputy MacSharry wants to do, it should be made clear that he is doing so in an individual capacity and that the committee is not putting them on the record.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The committee does not have that information. It is one individual on the committee who has it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was it spent in accommodating 517 people?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I wish to look at Mosney. Mosney is not included in the accommodation figures. Am I right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: There is a note in the document I have stating that it will not be included in the accommodation centres only.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: There are 800 in total.