Results 641-660 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: This section is basically to cover an eventuality in which there is a mayor who says, "To hell with the development plan and budget, I am going to Honolulu." If he or she is not bothered with stuff like the powers he or she has, he or she can just give them back to the unelected CEO. Is that what it is for or is it if the mayor is somehow incapacitated? Is it if they just decide to go on...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: On a serious note. If the Minister of State sets up an office with no powers, it is quite possible somebody might take-----.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I could. It might be well advised, given the powers set out in this Bill.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: The Minister of State spoke of the importance of collaboration and said the mayor will essentially sit as a 41st councillor. I am confused as to why, given the mayor is required to do all this, there is a separate chairman of the council. The mayor has certain powers, the director general has certain powers and there is still a chairman of the council. The mayor will sit in the council and...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I will withdraw the comment for the simple reason that the current local authority is making great inroads on derelict sites. I will give it that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: It is. I accept that completely.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: Limerick is a city which has not been well served by local government. I do not mean the unelected representatives but decisions made by elected representatives over the years. However, we are not here to discuss the past. We can do that somewhere else.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: Please do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: The mid-west needs a strong Limerick.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I am still at a loss to see any rationale for the offices of speaker and vice speaker, and also of mayor, other than that they were recommended by the implementation group.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: So it will run more smoothly. Could the Minister of State explain to me how it is likely to run more smoothly when there are so many titles and officeholders?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I do not want to be difficult. I understand that the implementation group has recommended the arrangement and that the Minister of State, as the person driving this legislation, has taken it on board.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: Therefore, I will table an amendment on Report Stage to abolish the office of príomh comhairleoir. I have heard no basis advanced for the creation of this new office.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: May I ask just one question?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I have no problem saying the mayor should have powers in addition to those of the cathaoirleach. What is happening, however, is that we are giving the mayor some powers – I would say not enough – but not even all the powers of the cathaoirleach. There is one person who is getting some of the powers of the cathaoirleach, the mayor is getting other powers, and-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (14 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: 167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the reason for the long delay in processing the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Relation to Pension Entitlements of Retired Persons) Bill 2021, which has remained at Second Stage since 11 February 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49531/23]
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: Are we going to have a country without agreed borders join the EU and have this country guarantee those borders with our soldiers and their lives? That is farcical. The EU is becoming completely devoid of any connection with reality or with what it claims to espouse-----
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: That will become unsustainable very quickly.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)
Michael McNamara: I thought an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach said five minutes each.