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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Verrimus was on site and Rits was not. Rits just got a piece of paper.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I would.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sure. It is, nonetheless-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: However, the Minister takes the point I am making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Indeed. When Commissioner Simon O'Brien came before us last week, he outlined the reason why he had organised the sweep. He said it was in light of some public discourse appearing to be exceptionally well informed. I know the Minister has gone through this and ask him to forgive me for coming back to it. Did he ever use those words in conversation with the Minister? I know they are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I am just checking he did not use those words with the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I am obviously confused by the fact that there still appear to be questions about that matter. In the context of establishing the public inquiry in the first instance, I am sure this is not something GSOC would do lightly. The commissioners did not get out of bed one morning and say "Let's set up a public interest inquiry". They had an acting director of investigations and there are three...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: The Minister knows no more than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: And the Minister has asked for more than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: And the Minister has asked for more than that and there has not been anything forthcoming. I am just clarifying that he said that earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: In the wake of the publication of the first article in The Sunday Timesand having arranged to meet GSOC, did the Minister at any point decide to meet the Garda Commissioner to discuss the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: At what point did the Minister talk to the Commissioner, or did he talk to him about it at all?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did the Minister and the Commissioner have a conversation about these matters on that occasion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I am asking whether the Minister had a private conversation with the Commissioner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: Teagasc (18 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: One point we did not touch on is the green, orange and red table in the presentation. Do we have the prospect of turning the red area to green? I could put the question better but witnesses know what I mean.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: Teagasc (18 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Scientifically, is it possible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: Teagasc (18 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: The slides are very clever; they are too clever for us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: Teagasc (18 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: Dr. Schulte mentioned additional action may be required to maintain pristine water bodies. I refer to the freshwater pearl mussel. It is a big qualification, that it "may be required". I wonder why it may be required. I understand the cost, but I wonder whether that is the only consideration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Overview of Land Use: Teagasc (18 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the delegates for bringing clarity to an enormous body of work. As Deputy Thomas Pringle suggested, we would probably have to lock ourselves in this room for a week to do justice to their research, but we will start where we can. The global soil challenges are big issues, but there is no mention of the almost 1 billion people we currently fail to feed. That is important to be put...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Susan O'Keeffe: I thank Dr. Beamish for his presentation. Its clarity is greatly appreciated. Is the breakdown of the co-funding 90% from the Department and 10% from local councils?