Results 1,081-1,100 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: But it could be used to bail out banks.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I believe people should know that we are putting money away that could end up being used to bail out banks. That is a fair analysis.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister has not ruled it out either, on the advice of his Department.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I am just pointing out that the fund can be used to bail out banks and that we do not even know whether it can be used to offset the impact of Brexit. Am I not making an accurate statement?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: In my last 30 seconds I wish to ask the Minister about nurses' pay. It is a budgetary issue and, as members of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, we should be allowed to address it. Strike action has been notified. How will the Minister deal with the issue? Is he willing to engage directly with the nurses' union on it? How does he propose to resolve it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Is the Minister willing-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: I believe I have five seconds more.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: Does the Minister recognise or give any credence to the argument that pay is a factor in the recruitment and retention of nurses? Leaving aside what may happen-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: -----does the Minister at least agree that pay is a factor in retention and recruitment?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Jonathan O'Brien: But not pay.
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, what has happened here tonight is an absolute disgrace. Nobody on the benches opposite can ever accuse anyone of bullying in the workplace again after what happened here tonight. People were bullied by the Government tonight and it should be put on the record that their actions were an absolute disgrace.
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: We liaised with the Minister of State's officials on this issue. The Minister of State withdrew the amendment on Committee Stage to allow us engage with his officials and we said to his officials, during our briefing, that we have major issues around the procurement process. It is flawed in many areas and needs to be reviewed. We will support the Minister of State on this particular...
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Can I ask why it is not being proposed to take Fifth Stage now? I did not agree. I am asking why it is being proposed to put it back to the new year. It is very unusual. Having dealt with Report Stage tonight, I would rather continue to Fifth Stage. It is not my issue if the Minister of State's nose is out of joint at some of the amendments that have been passed, it is his issue. I...
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is not agreed.
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: We are supporting the Government on this and we thank the officials for the clarification.
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is my understanding - perhaps we can receive some clarification on it - that the default position is that data are shared and that all the amendment is looking for is a mechanism to be put in place to allow people to opt out if they so choose. That is my understanding of the wording of the amendment. If that is the case, somebody should have that option. If people do decide to opt out...
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: We met officials and said that we would like to hear what Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace would say on the removal of their amendments, because they had been supported on Committee Stage by all parties, including Fianna Fáil and ourselves in Sinn Féin, with the exception of the Government. I have a straight "Yes" or "No" question for the Minister of State. If somebody refuses to...
- Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: We dealt with these amendments on Committee Stage and on the day, the Minister of State withdrew them to give us an opportunity to engage with his officials, which we have since done. We had more than an hour of engagement with them last week on the Bill. We would not support them on Committee Stage because they contained wording of amendments inserted by Senator Higgins in the debate in...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I will be equally as brief as Deputy Cowen who said the Bill will put the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Advisers on a statutory footing. We have seen the benefits of the Parliamentary Budget Office, in particular, in some of the material it has published for the Committee on Budgetary Oversight throughout the past 12 months. Sinn Féin will not...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: We will settle for one general election and the quicker it is held the better.