Results 14,061-14,080 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister's response was so broad-ranging it brought me into a number of different zones.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I will not. Will the Minister restate the last comment, which I found interesting, that the reduction of the minimum wage came about on the insistence of Commissioner Ollie Rehn.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: It is very relevant to people outside the House, given that employers I spoke to were not seeking it. They sought reform of the JLC.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Minister a certain degree of flexibility on the matter. When he announced the Green Paper a number of years ago, the McCarthy report and the local government efficiency review group followed. Ultimately, the position remains the same and question is where the structure of local government lies. As the Minister is well aware, the structure is laid out by the terms of funding...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the review of the severe weather events which was due to be completed by 1 November 2010; when he will attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Environment, Heritage and Local Government to discuss the Committee's own report and recommendations on the severe weather events; and if he...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I refer to the correspondence dated 27 October which was sent on the Minister's behalf to the joint committee. This correspondence stated that he was unavailable to meet the committee to discuss its report and recommendations because he was completing his report which was due on 1 November. The correspondence indicated that he expected to be in a position to respond to the committee's...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that the joint committee published its report in July, the Minister has had several months to come before it. He is putting the cart before horse in terms of its recommendations because they could inform him in completing his own review. He is following the wrong strategy by waiting until his report is completed before meeting the committee. As he has not indicated a timeline for...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister's agenda included the Aarhus Convention, which has not been ratified, and the ban on corporate donations, which has not been introduced. He has not published the promised White Paper on local government. The number of infringements of EU law has increased since he became Minister.

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The voting machines have not been dealt with and apparently we will now be left with major legacy issues which arose before he came into office. The report of the joint committee provides him with an opportunity to leave a positive legacy in regard to the events of 18 and 19 November 2009.

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to ask the Minister about one recommendation in particular from the committee's report. Will he begin the process of establishing an independent inquiry into what led up to the events that caused €100 million worth of damage to Cork city on 18 and 19 November? Is he prepared to state this afternoon that he will take that recommendation on board?

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: This is the man who introduced a €5,000 fine for detonating an atomic bomb.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: On yesterday's Order of Business I asked the Taoiseach about the Local Government (Dublin Mayor and Regional Authority) Bill 2010. I noted that the Bill had been removed from the schedule for this week. When the Taoiseach responded-----

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: He said it was a matter for the Whips and that it may be on next week's schedule.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Ultimately, if the Taoiseach is of the view that it will be completed before the term of the Government is completed, will he explain the stages by which it can be done? It is not scheduled for next week.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The following week is the budget, following that we will move on to the Finance Bill and following that there will be a general election.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House that the mayoral Bill has been scrapped?

Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010 which was due to be debated in the House yesterday and today has been removed from the Dáil schedule. When the Bill was introduced earlier this month it was associated with the Minister, Deputy Gormley, as being a legacy issue when the Green Party argued to get onto the programme for Government. However, given that the...

Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: On that matter, the Bill is on Second Stage, which was not scheduled to conclude on this week's schedule but was rolling over. Given that it has to go to Committee Stage, Report Stage-----

Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: -----and the Seanad, and possibly have to come back to the Dáil, realistically this Bill, which we all agree is flawed and which Fianna Fáil Deputies have come out with mixed signals on, can the Taoiseach clarify-----