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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Senators Fitzgerald, O'Toole, Bacik, Boyle, Coffey, Ó Murchú, Prendergast, Buttimer and Feeney expressed their views on the new report from the Ombudsman on services for the elderly. It is an independent report, as has been said, and the colleagues outlined to the House the difficulty the Minister may have had regarding the legal opinion from the Attorney General. I have no difficulty in...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes you can.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is incorrect. The activities of the implementation body on the Croke Park agreement are dependent upon receiving schedules from Departments. Senator O'Toole is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator O'Toole's remarks are pertinent. It is the Minister and senior civil servants who set policy. That is why we need to have a debate to receive clarification and a setting out by each Department of its objectives and targets regarding implementation. That must happen. Reform of the public sector, linked with the Fine Gael document, Reinventing Government, would empower and...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

David Norris: I join Senators O'Toole, Coghlan, Cummins and Buttimer in suggesting that now is the time for us to commemorate the Irish people who died in the First World War. It is a pity that so far no one from the other side has said anything on this issue. Perhaps before the Order of Business is concluded we will have some support. Emblems such as the poppy are sometimes contentious. For that...