Results 4,861-4,880 of 7,444 for speaker:John Brady

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The Fianna Fáil Party and the Labour Party leaders' interest in these meetings has to be welcomed but when was the last time they were in the North and engaged in discussions with party leaders and representatives across the political spectrum? I suspect it was quite some time ago. The Deputies should be in no doubt that people in the North, regardless of their political view,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: -----as their founding fathers and mothers would have expected them to do. To describe the issues in the North as party politics is unhelpful given the well-recognised and debated issues of fundamental rights. Playing party politics with those issues is certainly not helpful.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, BIIGC, is the forum set out in the Good Friday Agreement for both Governments to exercise their responsibilities towards equality of treatment and removing the obstacles at the heart of the political crisis in the North. It provides political parties with the opportunity to hold the Taoiseach and his British counterparts to account in honouring...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I am sure Deputies across the House will agree with me regarding the magnitude of difference a few months can make in British politics. British Ministers who attended the 32nd meeting of the British-Irish Council struck a different tone on the importance of protecting the Good Friday Agreement to that emanating from the new Government there. I am not sure how the Taoiseach and the Minister...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: It has to do with Commissioner Hogan and his new role.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I will conclude on this. What confidence can we have in Commissioner Hogan in his new role and in this Government to deliver on climate action commitments if they do not set their faces against this deal?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: When defending the controversial Mercosur trade deal, Phil Hogan admitted that Ireland's beef market had been passed up to gain concessions in other areas. The produce of Irish farmers is to be, quite literally, the sacrificial lamb in the much-maligned trade agreement, championed by the former Fine Gael Minister. Astonishingly, Commissioner Hogan told us that the Mercosur deal would...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: Paul Graham, a survivor of the Bethany Home, has challenged the Government to explain why it has refused to pay redress to the home's former residents. The wrongs of Ireland's mother and baby homes are accepted by all in this House. Many of those who survived horrific treatment during their younger years are now elderly and in ill health. Sadly, in the case of the Bethany Home, they are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: It is difficult to disagree with him. Understandably, the exclusion of Protestant-run homes-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: -----from redress has left the survivors of the Bethany Home and the Westbank Home with a sectarian aftertaste. The blame for this lies squarely at the Government's door.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: Will the Taoiseach provide Paul Graham with the explanation he needs?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The Data Protection Commissioner's 172 page report into the public services card provides us with much more than just the findings of her lengthy investigation, which has been ongoing since 2017. It tells us of the flawed arguments put forward by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection that in some instances are totally nonsensical. It also gives us a very clear insight...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: That advice should be published by the Government in the public interest. Will the Taoiseach publish it? Is he concerned by the clarification given by the Department to the commissioner-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: -----that not everyone who was issued with a public services card went through the SAFE 2 process. Some did and some did not. How was the differentiation made and how does that combat fraud?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: What we just had was a rehashing of all the Taoiseach's arguments on the perceived benefits of the public services card. The Data Protection Commissioner accepts those points, but she says the process is totally illegal. The collection and retention of individuals' data is completely illegal. I again urge the Taoiseach to issue the third party legal advice. I accept it is the practice...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: In terms of the continuation of the roll-out of the public services card, from October it will be required for the national childcare scheme. There are also plans to require the public services card for school transport cases that are being appealed. Under the current system, no ID is needed-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: -----for that process. Rather than selling the benefits of the card, which is illegal, the Taoiseach should fully implement the findings of the Data Protection Commissioner and desist from his continuous undermining of the commissioner and her good office.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of those identified in work regarding the bin waiver as needing State assistance as a result of medical incontinence. [37822/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases examined by the liable relatives unit; and the number of these cases which resulted in payments being commenced from said liable relative in 2018 and to date in 2019. [37780/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the running costs of the liable relatives unit in 2018. [37805/19]