Results 521-540 of 1,032,267 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Steven Matthews)
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: They can also encourage their members to do so, if necessary. I have given the example of media commentary. As the Tánaiste knows, when there are issues pertaining or developments happen, the media likes to talk to real people who are affected. Members of the media will approach trade unions, representative organisations and sectoral bodies and ask them to comment on what things might...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: That is not what the Bill states. It states "encourage members".
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: The amendments being brought forward are around the language of Government policy, which the Tánaiste has already conceded requires another look.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: That is not at all what I suggested.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, line 11, to delete "or matter of Government policy".
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, line 13, to delete "or matter of Government policy".
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 14, line 37, to delete “and” where it secondly occurs. From our perspective, amendment No. 11 is the substantive one. It relates to an issue that was discussed widely, as the Tánaiste will be aware. I refer to the external oversight body. It is a concern that was widely relayed during the pre-legislative scrutiny that the external...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: Notwithstanding anything that has been said, I do not think we can look at this legislation or leave what many of us consider an anomaly in it the expectation that other legislation to address this matter will be brought forward in the future. In fact, the current position reinforces the problematic nature of what is being proposed because it is the Secretary General who is the Accounting...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Eoin Ó Broin on Tuesday, 21 May 2024:
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Alan Dillon)
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on housing. On Tuesday, 21 May 2024, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 49; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Amendment declared carried.
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 50; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Question declared carried.
- Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)
- Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023 and has made amendments thereto.