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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am responding to a point made by the Minister of State. It relates to the amendments and the guidelines .

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The guidelines must be complied with by the planning people-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Planning department staff.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The planning department staff are the ones who would impose the guidelines so that is why I mentioned them in response to what the Minister of State said. If the Acting Chairman wishes to impose order, he should be in order. The clerk of works was also mentioned by the Minister of State. He believed that it was a good point. Why did he not introduce a relevant amendment in the Seanad?...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have never heard such claptrap in my life. The Minister of State indicated one of the barriers to construction was the viability of construction.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State may stand and speak, if he so wishes.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can cede to the Minister of State if he has a point of order. In my area in Dublin South-Central there has been much construction. The Minister of State might know this as he passes through it regularly, and he may be familiar with some of the sites. Despite the collapse, construction has continued and a number of proposals have gone into Dublin City Council in recent years. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Bhí orm bheith as láthair ar feadh tamaill ansin mar bhí me ag freastal ar chruinniú coiste. These amendments relate to the standards applicable to apartment complexes, in particular. An amendment was made to the Bill in the Seanad which allows the Minister to overrule the standards set by local authorities. While I agree in part with some of the amendments proposed by...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a new aspect to this.

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is no reflection on the Minister of State, who is here to do a job, but it is a pity the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is not here. The original script the Minister of State was forced to read here was one of the most crawling speeches I have heard in this House. It seems to lay the blame for on inaction on us. He said that we seek to achieve in reality, not just in words....

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Seán Crowe mentioned Sinn Féin's Private Members' motion of 10 December 2014 which called on the Government to officially recognise the state of Palestine. It was passed unopposed by the House. Not one Member of the Oireachtas - a similar motion was passed by the Seanad - voted against either motion, yet the Government has refused to act on a motion passed by both Houses of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: School Meals Programme: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as an méid atá ráite acu go dtí seo. A number of questions arise from the presentation. How do we move from where we are today? That is the key question. I think everyone here, and everyone who has visited a school that has participated in the school meals programme, can see how valuable it is. How can we ensure all DEIS...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: School Meals Programme: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are two schemes and I am trying to figure out why there are two. One is a very small scheme which might be retained to allow the local authorities to contribute. However, it seems odd to have two schemes - the urban school meals scheme and the school meals programme - doing much of the same work. One of them was set up after the 1913 Lock-out and the fact that it still exists speaks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: School Meals Programme: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Once they do not lose out.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the expenditure on making public transport wheelchair accessible in each of the past five years [45174/15]

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste does not have a clue, God love her.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We might as well move to Bandon.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (10 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost in 2015 of purchasing medical procedures, consultations, operations and after care from private hospital facilities and of addressing the various lengthening waiting lists in adult and children's hospitals, the type and number of these, and the equivalent spend in 2014. [44446/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Ms Tierney for her comments. I have a number of questions. I find it odd that there is no onus on the PAS or the body for which it is recruiting to inform existing panel members that a panel is closed or a new one has been formed. That should be looked at either by the PAS or somebody else. I know of cases in which people, perhaps wrongly, presumed they were on a panel, only to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Sector Recruitment Panels: Public Appointments Service (9 Dec 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the same apply to the Army?