Results 21,701-21,720 of 26,248 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: An Order Paper will have to be produced in respect of Tuesday, 22 March-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: All of those motions will appear on that Order Paper. I take it there will be an Order of Business in the normal way on that Tuesday.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am getting to a point of-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is an important point of principle and I am afraid the House will have to forgive me as a novice in the Chair as I get to a point where I am beginning to understand the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The circumstances are these, as I understand it. The motions that have been put forward are motions that would normally be taken in Private Members' time.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is not what is envisaged for the sitting next Tuesday.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Dáil reform process may give rise to a vastly different methodology for dealing with Private Members' business-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: -----but the Dáil reform package is not yet in place. In fact, the consultation on it has not taken place. What is being asked of us is to depart completely from the process that is agreed towards a process on which we have not even yet had consultation never mind agreement.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: For absolute clarity, I must operate under the Standing Orders as they currently exist.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I look forward with enthusiasm to them being changed but I cannot accept the proposal being made at this stage.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is out of order and we cannot proceed on that basis.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Hold on. I will hear one more comment from Deputy Doherty on it and then we will proceed with matters.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The House has agreed. Will Deputy Pearse Doherty sit down for a second?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You are not, but will you sit down for a minute? The House has agreed to take three motions. That was at the discretion of the House. There is no provision within Standing Orders, which remain to be amended, to do the business that you are proposing to do and it is not open to the House here today to amend Standing Orders because, first, there is no proposal to do it and, second, the...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Could I ask that all these items be addressed by the Taoiseach or the Minister of State when they respond? The other areas that seem to be suggested are three-day sittings, parliamentary questions and the extension of the Tuesday sitting to provide primarily for a debate on health and housing. Am I correct?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Mea culpa- and water charges. Would the Taoiseach or Minister of State care to respond on these matters as well as on the important issue of a report? Deputy Howlin has suggested a report on the progress towards electing a Taoiseach.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: On the Fianna Fáil side, there is the actual nomination of a Taoiseach. There is a wide variety of proposals there.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Fianna Fáil proposal is that the meeting on 6 April would address the issue of the election of a Taoiseach.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Sorry, wait now. The Taoiseach.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are we agreeing the provision should be on the Order Paper to do that? Is that agreed?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes. Deputy Adams.