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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The money should be spent on repairing the pipes instead of installing meters.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fishing Communities (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus táim thar a bheith dó as ucht an t-am a thógáil le teacht isteach leis an rún seo ar an Athló a phlé, rún ar an téama céanna maidir leis an damáiste a rinne na stoirmeacha, ach ó thaobh an ciste cúitimh d'iascairí beaga. The Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, is...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fishing Communities (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister of State for replying to my Adjournment matter on behalf of the Minister. I appreciate what he said, but I believe the issue needs to be sent home to Europe. This is an extraordinary circumstance and the normal rules should not apply in this case. This has been a catastrophe for many of the fishermen involved and we need to use whatever mechanisms we have to make the...

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 57: In page 52, line 34, after "Schedule 16" to insert the following:"and the National Traveller Partnership, the National Collective of Community-based Women's Networks, the National Women's Council, The Community Workers Co-operative, Pavee Point, and the National Traveller Women's Forum".

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 49: In page 50, line 37, after “authorities” to insert “and NGOs, community groups and communities of interest”.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 50: In page 50, line 38, to delete “as he or she considers appropriate”.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 56: In page 52, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“(5) The Minister may not include any recommendations or proposals from the report of the Working Group on Active Citizenship without—(a) prior scrutiny and debate in both the Dáil and the Seanad; (b) prior consultation with community groups, NGOs, and Communities of Interest.”.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh Sheanadóirí. I dtosach báire, ba mhaith liom tacú leis an leasú atá molta ag mo chomhghleacaí, an Seanadóir Cullinane, go mbeadh uair a chloig againn inniu le plé a dhéanamh ar Uisce Éireann agus an praiseach a bhaineann le sin. I concur with the Senators who have called for a debate on the fall-out after...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: One of the important roles of the local community development committees is in the whole area of social inclusion. It is important that representatives from State agencies are on these committees such as SOLAS, an tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna, and HSE, the Health Service Executive. These are the agencies delivering day-to-day services in communities....

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I appreciate the clarification. I appreciate also that negotiations are ongoing. It is a misnomer to call these companies private companies; they are companies limited by guarantee. That is not the same as a private limited company but people might take that as being the case from what the Minister said. Prescriptive memorandums and articles of association were given by the then...

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The companies spent the money but they were being audited on an ongoing basis.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is the Minister saying that all the companies are not responsible enough to-----

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes. I made the point earlier that a number of companies did not follow the guidelines but they were also under the oversight and the watch of the Department, Pobal and the EU. The question has to be raised, and I have raised it in the context of MFG, for example, about who was watching over that type of management that was going on because it was not just happening over a very short...

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Minister is saying now it was corrected but he is also saying it was in rag order. He is sending out misleading messages.

Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: He needs to clarify for us whether it is his vision that these local development companies will remain as part of the infrastructure in the future, through the next Leader programme in particular.