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Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We topped the poll in most constituencies, it was not based on transfers.

Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I take this opportunity to thank the convention for its fabulous work. This includes not only the chair, Tom Arnold, and the staff but in particular, the citizen members, many of whom were engaging with a political concept they had never engaged with before in the detailed manner they did over a good number of weekends earlier this year and last year. As an experiment in participatory...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will be as brief as possible, but I wish to refer to the major implications of the amendment. First, however, I congratulate the Minister on rallying his troops to talk down the clock because in so doing he will avoid the thorny issue of the missing 300,000 households. Everybody has the right to speak to the amendment, for which I do not criticise them, but I am critical of the fact that...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Emmet Stagg might like to contribute to the debate, rather than snipe from the Government side of the House. He has the same right as everybody else to do so. What is being proposed in the amendment is illogical. When is a referendum not a referendum? The answer is when it is a plebiscite. There is nothing in the Constitution to give effect to a plebiscite. There is no mention of...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You are talking out of both sides of your arse.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Most of them are anyway.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We could have a referendum on that as well.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Deputy does not know what he is talking about.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not think so.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, it is not.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is more nonsensical to hold a plebiscite.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are no charges.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Deputy keeps addressing me.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Twomey is misleading the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach is a crawler to the Brits as well.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Taoiseach ask him?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Employment Schemes Funding (17 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 11 December 2014, if she will provide a table including the overall training budget of each division in her Department; the number of community employment schemes and participants in each division in her Department; and the number of participants with respect to whom the budget allocated was exceeded in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 who is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance is entitled to the Christmas bonus. [47904/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sale by the National Assets Management Agency of occupied apartment complexes to investors, both national and international, is contributing to rent inflation as the profiteering companies seem to immediately inflate the rent on the day of the rent review, as in the case of rental properties (details...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authority Housing Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the delay in enacting legislation on including social clauses in major State-local authority construction contracts. [47888/14]