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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: I thank the committee for making time available today to consider my request for a Supplementary Estimate for the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. As committee members are no doubt aware, the Office of the Chief State Solicitor is a constituent part of the Office of the Attorney General and provides solicitor services within the Attorney General’s office and to Government...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: Some of the cases to which we are referring may have a constitutional basis and could not be settled in advance. There are cases where an individual's legal team is encouraged to enter mediation with the State but that does not always happen because some people want their day in court, so to speak and that is where the expenses begin.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: I will ask my officials to prepare a note on that. I am certainly aware of plenty of cases where one arm of the State is up against another arm. That does happen and is quite normal.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: Approximately 100 cases from the Supreme Court backlog are being dealt with by the Court of Appeal. I can understand people's frustration when they see the exorbitant fees that some people are getting. That said, they do not get the rates of pay that some senior counsel might enjoy because they are appointed by the Attorney General.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: My officials inform me that there is a five year wait for the Supreme Court at the moment. Some cases will transfer to the Court of Appeal ---
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015) Paul Kehoe: There are approximately 230 staff working in the Chief State Solicitor's office at the moment. To be exact, the figure is 225, out of a complement of 243. There is a difficulty with appointing solicitors to the office at the moment. The office is trying to deal with that and to hold on to its young solicitors who can get far higher salaries in the private sector.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)
Paul Kehoe: How many houses does Deputy Adams have?
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population Data (1 Dec 2015)
Paul Kehoe: The Census Field Supervisor competition was advertised in the national press on 17 September, 2015. A total of 2,327 applications were received and 1,143 were called for interview. Offers of appointment will be made over the coming weeks. All appointments from this competition are subject to the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act, 2012 whereby members of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2015)
Paul Kehoe: The process of parliamentary reform is an ongoing one. The Programme for Government outlined an ambitious agenda for Dáil Reform to be introduced in a phased process over the lifetime of the Government. On foot of this, since 2011 the operation of the Dáil has been steadily reformed to enhance the legislative role of elected members and improve the working of the House.The measures...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Data (1 Dec 2015)
Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social Protection. The most recent Live Register figures available are for October 2015. Table 1a below shows the number of persons under 25...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Data (1 Dec 2015)
Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social Protection. The most recent Live Register figures available are for October 2015. Table 1a below shows the number of persons under 35...
- Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: Let him join Deputy Peter Mathews.
- Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: That was all he wanted.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: It is a one-pass system.
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: Deputy Martin's party would have got run out of ceremonies.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: It does.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (18 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 25th September, 2014, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Health, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister for...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (17 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the following arrangements shall apply in relation to the business of the Dáil today:(a) there will be no Order of Business within the meaning of Standing Order 26; (b) Leaders' Questions, Oral Questions to the Taoiseach and Private Notice Questions shall not be taken; (c) matters may not be raised under the provisions of...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tourism Employment (17 Nov 2015)
Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. In line with EU requirements the QNHS collects sector of employment according to the standard EU classification (NACE Rev.2). The tourism sector requested by the Deputy is spread across different sectors within the...