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Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: By way of compromise, perhaps the Minister would consider the possibility of including an adult education officer on the board. Such officers deal with a very large population of learners who do not have a voice, including adult learners and over 3,500 YouthReach trainees. The possibility for parents of the latter group getting onto the education and training boards is very limited because...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I very much welcome the Minister?s invitation to us to make proposals. I am not sure I agree with having 12 councillors plus two members of staff deciding on the parents' representatives based on the nominations or expressions of interest that come forward. Is it not possible to consider a mechanism similar to any other election where people are nominated to stand for election whose names...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I support my colleague, Senator Power, on amendment No. 5. The amalgamation of the two counties of Cavan and Monaghan requires that the parents whose children are attending the education and training board schools within that area should be given ownership of who represents them on the education and training board. It is not acceptable that a national body should decide parents X and Y...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome what the Minister has outlined because, as I pointed out on Second Stage, it is important to get these issues right rather than arrive at an establishment day and have a debacle such as SUSI. By way of clarification can the Minister say if he hopes that all amalgamations would be in place by a particular date? Has he envisaged a particular date?

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: With regard to the establishment day, when is it envisaged that the boards will be established?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I, too, commend Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell on raising the proposed sale of the national lottery. I congratulate her on championing the cause of preventing the sale from proceeding, especially if it is to a hedge fund over which we would not have any control. The national lottery should remain in the ownership of ordinary people and should not be sold to foreign hedge funds. In that...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: In that regard, I call on the Leader to arrange a debate on lobbyists. I also call on the Government to proceed with the introduction of legislation providing for a list of registered lobbyists. The proposal may not satisfy some Senators on the Government side but my party would welcome such a measure. I join Senator John Whelan in calling for the Minister for the Environment, Community and...

Seanad: Mobility Allowance: Statements (21 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Mobility Allowance: Statements (21 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: The Leader without interruption, please.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: We did not accept the approach.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Except Fine Gael.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I will speak with the Minister of State again regarding functions.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Will the Minister of State outline the water service's functions? Are the water service's functions the same or similar to the functions of the water services authority under the 2007 Act.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, to the House. I agree with what Senator Keane has said on these amendments. Am I correct that the Minister of State said that only specific borrowings would be guaranteed?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: If, God forbid, Irish Water were to find itself running into-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: If, God forbid, Irish Water were to find itself in serious financial difficulties, does anything in the Bill allow the Minister to bail it out?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Rural Development Programme (12 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I formally move the matter raised by Senator Ó Domhnaill.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I would agree with that suggestion for the next time such difficulties arise. I have no doubt, however, that Cavan will be united after the next revision because we are going to mount a campaign from now on until we are reunited. Would the Minister consider appointing somebody with practical knowledge of politics to the next Electoral Commission? The independent commission's structure has...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I am sorry. However, Deputy Heather Humphreys from County Monaghan - who is in the Minister's own party - along with Deputy Joe O'Reilly, Deputy Brendan Smith and Deputy Ó Caoláin, referred to the carve-up of County Cavan as ludicrous. It is on the record of the Dáil. It is ludicrous, in my opinion.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I am not referring to people in my own party.