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Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator should read the record to see what I said.

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator should read the record.

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The terms of reference for the committee will be worked out and the committee will be up and running before the local and European elections. We might not bring in any witnesses but I assure Members that this committee will be set up before the local and European elections.

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: We are actively ensuring that this happens. This is no political witch-hunt. This goes back to when we brought this referendum to the people in October and November 2011. Unfortunately, the Government did not get the result it wished for. We said we would go back and reflect. We brought the legislation to the House and it was enacted in the middle of last year. The Taoiseach announced...

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I said that it relates to the Seanad CPP.

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Under the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013, certain new Standing Orders are required to provide the framework for an Oireachtas inquiry to be established, to operate and to report. These Standing Orders have been drafted in accordance with requirements of the Act. Their legal context has been considered in detail and they have been discussed and...

Seanad: Standing Orders: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I will deal with that when I get to it. The final proposed change to Standing Orders outlines how the gateway system will work. The committee proposing to conduct the inquiry will make a proposal to the CPP. The CPP will consider the proposal and make a recommendation. That report must be considered before any inquiry terms of reference are agreed. An Oireachtas banking inquiry will, no...

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: No.

Membership of Committee: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Deputy Mick Wallace be discharged from the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions and that Deputy John Halligan be appointed in substitution for him.

Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Is the Deputy talking about piebalds?

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: On dry land.

Seanad Reform Bill 2014: First Stage (4 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: No.

Referral to Joint Committee: Motion (4 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (4 Feb 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The answer to question 4900/14 is set out in the table. Goods exports and imports statistics provide data on the physical movement of goods between countries, which is a different concept than the residence principle used in Balance of Payments and National Accounts. Northern Ireland is not separately identified from the rest of the United Kingdom in Services statistics, hence it is not...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: If Senator Walsh does not want to listen ---

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: There are three doors to this Chamber and the Senator can leave by any one of them. I have no problem with that and will not be upset if the Senator leaves.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator was not here for most of the debate.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: This is unbelievable. Senator Walsh is the same Senator who gave out earlier because the debate was not going to go beyond 5 p.m.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I will conclude within three minutes. A number of Senators raised the issue of Dáil reform. I have examined the Dáil reform that has taken place in the last two and a half years in comparison with what was done in the previous 15 years under various Fianna Fáil-led Governments.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Paul Kehoe: There have been far more reforms. Some Senators asserted that this Government does not have respect for Seanad Éireann but this Government has actually secured the future of this House. Since I became involved in politics I have been asked continuously why we need Seanad Éireann. The people have had their say on that issue in the referendum. It is up to the Government and the...