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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Reports (22 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: Neither the Taoiseach nor I, as Minister of State with delegated responsibility for the CSO, have a role in relation to commissioning work from the CSO. The Statistics Act 1993 provides that the Director General of the CSO is statutorily independent and has sole responsibility for the content of statistical releases, the publications issued and the timing and methods of dissemination of...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: The arrangements for the business schedule for Tuesday to Thursday, 21 to 23 February 2017, as agreed by the Business Committee on 16 February, are as follows. Today's business shall be No. 14, National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017 - Second Stage; No. 15, Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 16,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (21 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Central Statistics Office, in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, published a joint report in 2014 presenting census results for both Ireland and Northern Ireland. The report contained detailed information on cross border commuters. There were 6,416 cross border commuters who travelled from Ireland to work in Northern Ireland, and a further 1,879 who...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Central Statistics Office, CSO, is responsible for the collection, processing and publication of official statistics for economic, social and general conditions in Ireland. While the main focus is on meeting the statistical requirements of government, the information published by the CSO is also used by public bodies, business, universities, research institutes and the general public....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: I agree completely with the Chairman on the independence and reliability of the data collected and presented by the CSO. I thank him for the compliment on behalf of the 755 staff who work in it. The idea has merit. To answer his question, I do not know whether within the Vote and staff numbers we would have the capacity to do it and, more importantly, whether we would have access to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (16 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chairman. I will come back to him.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: She was here last night.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: They throw in the alternative facts every now and again as it suits their purpose. We are about finding truth and justice and that is what the Government will continue to do.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: There are stones being turned which they do not like.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: The line in a Rudyard Kipling poem is appropriate to the actions of the last couple of days: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...". That is what we need right now - to keep our heads cool. We need a clear plan and a course of action to establish the tribunal of inquiry so that we can get to the truth. I think the truth is the very least...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: Can I ask Deputy McGuinness to please withdraw a statement that he has made on a number of occasions? He has made the accusation that others in this House knew. That is categorically not true. Will the Deputy please withdraw it?

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: Then the Deputy should have said that.

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: Before the Leas-Cheann Comhairle entered the Chamber.

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: Yes. They are on the way.

Business of Dáil (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is proposed, notwithstanding the order of the Dáil of this day, that the questions and answers following the statements of clarification made by the Taoiseach and Ministers shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 9 p.m.

Business of Dáil (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Orders of the Dáil of today, that the Dáil shall sit later than 10 p.m. tonight and the sitting shall suspend on the conclusion of Oral Questions until 6 p.m., whereupon statements of clarification on statements by the Taoiseach and Ministers shall be taken and the following arrangements shall apply: the Taoiseach,...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May, 2016, 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 Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Social Protection...

Defence Forces Service in United Nations in 2015 Report: Referral to Select Committee (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: I moveThat the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the report by the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence, regarding service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2015, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 9th September, 2016, in accordance with section 13 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, be referred to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Regina Doherty: First, I apologise for the fact that I was not at the meeting at 1.30 p.m. It certainly was not deliberate. I was, as the Ceann Comhairle stated, at Cabinet and there was no intention to collapse anything. Notwithstanding what others have stated, I wish to make a suggestion. Can we agree the Order of Business until 5.17 p.m. today? The House could carry on until we have our meeting at 4...