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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 75: In page 68, to delete lines 1 to 8.This is a minor issue to do with the Information Commissioner being allowed to visit Garda stations. I understand that under the proposed Bill, the commissioner cannot visit Garda stations. I am told by people who understand this issue better than me that this is not normal European practice. My amendment proposes to allow the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Is there any case in which the Information Commissioner might want to go into a Garda station but not seize documents? Have we gone slightly too far here and is there a happy medium?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Who makes that decision?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: There are existing regulations.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Do they exist for the current Bill or is this a new power, a new restriction?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: So this is to limit that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: So this is new and provides a boundary condition on including the Garda Síochána.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Sometimes that is enough.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: This is new but it is not limiting the issue around the gardaí. It is a boundary on a new power.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I know this is not the Minister’s call but it is not the spirit of the legislation that this would apply to all Garda stations.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I know it is not the Minister’s call but am I right in thinking that it is not his intention that all Garda stations would be designated.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 80: In page 73, line 2, after “matters” to insert the following:“, or the factors and policy choices made by the Commissioner and his or her staff when determining the deployment of Garda personnel in the State”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: We do not need to go over all of this again but I wish to make one or two additional points. The Minister's position is clear. He may respond if he wishes. I am not trying to get back into a debate on the issue. The committee recommended in its report that monopoly semi-State providers should have to comply with the rigours of the FOI Bill. I think it is worth pointing that out to...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I ask if the Minister could provide that information in writing as it is quite detailed.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (14 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: This is a bittersweet moment for the Irish people. At the start of the crisis, we had very low national debt, very high employment, very low emigration and no negative equity or mortgage crisis. Five years later, we have heartbreaking unemployment, particularly for young people. An entire generation has been financially destroyed. We have very high emigration - the highest level ever -...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Yield (19 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 6 November 2013, which states that the establishment of Irish Water presents local government with significant organisational and financial challenges in 2014 and, in this context, it has been necessary to defer defining a certain proportion of the proceeds of the local...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (19 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 434. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the projected costs for the establishment of Irish Water; if he will use the borrowing provisions of the Water Services Act 2013 to repay the full establishment costs of Irish Water into the local government fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48967/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (19 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the annual costs of water provision, in addition to the establishment costs of Irish Water, are to be paid out of the local government fund in 2014 and if this represents a double payment for water services by local authorities and local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48968/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Fund (19 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government notwithstanding the decision not to make allocations from the local government fund at a municipal district level, if for the purposes of transparency and if he will further strengthen democracy at a local level; if he will provide a breakdown of local property tax revenues on a municipal council level for 2014; and if...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: A woman was charged in court yesterday with the crime of assisting the suicide of a multiple sclerosis sufferer. The charge comes under section 2 of the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993 and it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison. It is the first court case of its kind in Ireland and it is being watched very closely by a constituent of mine, Marie Fleming. Marie has lived with...