Results 1-20 of 1,066,321 for in 'Dáil debates' OR speaker:Michael Mullins in 'Committee meetings'
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Question put.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 9 July 2025.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.55 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 8 Iúil 2025. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.55 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 July 2025.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Ivana Bacik: Sorry, is it me-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: No, it is the Minister of State first, then the Deputy.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Emer Higgins: I thank the speakers who have contributed. We all agree that the State should act in the public interest, broadly construed, in pursuing litigation and should consider the broader public interest before taking certain procedural steps in litigation. This is the reason the Government approved the adoption of State litigation principles two years ago. They serve as guidelines in the conduct...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Ivana Bacik: I thank my colleague, Deputy Ciarán Ahern, and Deputy Mairéad Farrell for their words of support. I should also have thanked Deputy Ged Nash, who co-sponsored this Bill with me, at the outset. I also thank Deputy Farrell for her kind words about my background. I should have declared my interest at the start. As a practising barrister, I represented both the State and individuals...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, might I ask if there is a copy of the Minister of State's speech available? I am conscious there was a lot in it.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Yes. Minister, normally-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Emer Higgins: I think it is here. Is it not here?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: We have not yet received it.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Emer Higgins: I am so sorry.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: The Minister of State can certainly forward it. We will ask for it now, if possible. I will let the Minister of State do that, just to finish, if Deputy Farrell does not mind.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Emer Higgins: Somebody can provide that. In the meantime, do you want to photocopy my one?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: That is also helpful, I would assume. We can do that. I thank the Minister of State. The Clerk can collect the Minister of State's speech and get it photocopied. I call Deputy Farrell.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cheann Comhairle agus leis an Aire Stáit. This is my third week in a row speaking on a Private Members' Bill from the Opposition which, on a Thursday afternoon, is being pushed back or declined by Government. This feeds in to a narrative and the opinion that this is a slow-moving do-nothing Government. First of all, I commend Deputy Bacik and the Labour...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Emer Higgins: I thank the Deputies for giving me the opportunity to discuss the Government’s position on Second Stage of this Private Members’ Bill, the Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023. At the outset, I remind Deputies, as Deputy Bacik has done, that the Attorney General is a constitutional officer appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Taoiseach under...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)
Ciarán Ahern: All too often the State approaches litigation against it in the same way any private corporate entity would. It is a war of attrition against each individual plaintiff who dares to sue it. That approach must change, not least because it is hugely discriminatory against those who do not have the time, resources or mental fortitude to fight a case like that. We must also consider the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (3 Jul 2025)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for that response. I did not go directly to TII myself. I await a response from it, but this response from the Minister of State is helpful because it sets out the position. Meath County Council has pointed to a pathway involving a TII-initiated process. That does not look like it is happening. In TII's inspection and its review Carlanstown has not come...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (3 Jul 2025)
Neale Richmond: I am glad to hear that the response was of some use. We look at the quantums available, as I alluded to at the outset of my initial response, in terms of the capital spending budget, not necessarily for new national road projects but the €2.9 billion allocated for the protection and renewal of the existing national road network, with a considerable amount, €502 million, made...