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- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I have no difficulty in using language. Deputy Coonan also claims a great deal of credit for things that occur in north Tipperary. I read The Midland Tribune every week and the Deputy's name is never absent from its pages.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: Deputy Coonan tends to indicate his support for any agreement with anything that is happening - he also exerts pressure in respect of particular issues - and he is entitled to do so. Deputy Kenny does the same in County Mayo.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: Why would Deputy Kenny not do the same?
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is the people who support one who believe in one. Is that not what politics is all about? Let us cut out the nonsense. The idea that Opposition Deputies sit peevishly at home while Government announcements are made and that they have nothing to say about them or would not wish to indicate support for them or that they have not appeared at launches, etc. - as they are entitled to do -...
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: How else would politicians survive if they did not behave in the way to which I refer?
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I could reprimand the Minister of State but I understand the Deputy's party leader also visited his constituency and did not inform him of his intention to do so.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I understand that the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission is responsible for dealing with these matters. A number of members of the Deputy's party serve on the commission. I cannot comment further other than to advise the Deputy to raise the matter at the relevant forum. This is not a matter for me to comment on.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: As a long-standing Member of the House, Deputy Stagg is aware that there are so many other ways in which this matter can be pursued.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: A question was not tabled to me in respect of this matter. Deputy Broughan has posed a supplementary question.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: Question No. 3 is in the name of Deputy Kenny and refers to whether there is a specific official who liaises with the Members involved.
- Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: If a parliamentary question is tabled with suitable notice, then we will try to provide an answer. As far as I am aware - and I can only answer on the basis of the information available to me - the point I am making with regard to this being a matter for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, in the first instance, is valid.
- Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, together. On 23 March 2010, the Government appointed Deputy Curran as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at my Department and at the Department of Defence and Deputy Calleary as Minister of State at my Department and at the Departments of Finance and Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. The Minister of State has special responsibility...
- Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: Responsibility in that regard now lies with the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Pat Carey.
- Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: The President of the Council deals primarily with Heads of State and Governments. In regard to the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, he has responsibility for labour affairs, which is an important responsibility. As he also has departmental responsibilities in the Departments of Finance and the Taoiseach, it allows him to provide a cross-governmental approach to the public services...
- Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, will deal with it in the context of the public service transformation agenda. Clearly the Croke Park agreement is an important part of that. Wider or more general social partnership discussions with stakeholders like ICTU or IBEC will continue to be dealt with by me and the Minister for Finance and will be attended, where appropriate, by the Minister...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: That appointment is imminent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I have recently signed off on the names.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I do not have the information. Until it is announced it would not be appropriate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: I do not have the details in front of me but I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, about it and I have signed off on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Government dealt with the private notice question which came before it and set out the Government's position. The Minister of State, Deputy Curran, has dealt with the specific matter since it was raised in the first instance in the House. He was in a position to give a full and explicit explanation. The Minister, Deputy Gormley, was not in a position to attend at that time. It was...