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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...mall that bore absolutely no relation to it. The house was retained in the end but, because nobody took any heed of it, it collapsed and is now gone. Frescati House was the holiday home of the FitzGeralds, including Lord Edward FitzGerald and maybe even the later Earl of Kildare. It was the summer home to which they moved from Leinster House. It does not exist anymore. There is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Seán Lemass did not go. Neither did Jack Lynch, and neither for that matter did Liam Cosgrave, Charlie Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Albert Reynolds, John Bruton, Bertie Ahern or Enda Kenny. However, the Taoiseach went, the first Taoiseach to go to the Munich Security Conference, mixing and mingling with the generals and admirals, the NATO heads and the representatives of imperialism at...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...are not responsible and that it is someone else's problem. If the Government is not ultimately responsible for cleaning up this mess, who is? Yesterday, we learned that the Minister for media had her first briefing on severance packages at RTÉ, despite the findings of the McCann Fitzgerald report emerging three weeks ago. The Government is behind the curve on every twist and turn...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Martin: ...was published this week. This does include the names of the majority of individuals involved who engaged with Grant Thornton. RTÉ staff members below the executive level are not named. With regard to the McCann Fitzgerald report commissioned by RTÉ into the 2017 and 2021 voluntary exit programmes, I said that this showed an appalling disregard for the principles of equity,...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...in those recommendations has found its way into the Bill, which is the move away from the title of officeholder to civil servant for coroners. That is a massive change. According to Eleanor Fitzgerald, president of the Coroners Society of Ireland, that radical change in the Bill compromises the independence and functioning of the office of the coroner. As we all know, a civil servant...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this very timely motion. Elaine Fitzgerald Kane, the chairperson of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, said recently that the tourism sector has been abuzz with discussion about the significant number of closures of food-led hospitality businesses in January 2024, particularly when compared to January 2023. The scale of these closures is both...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (14 Feb 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...that the greatest possible level of transparency consistent with due process and the rights of individuals, should apply to the report. On 31 January, just prior to the publication of the McCann Fitzgerald report into the 2017 and 2021 voluntary exit programmes at RTÉ, I met with the Director-General to receive a briefing on what that review would set out. I expressed deep...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Niamh Smyth: ...its examination of relevant matters, including matters considered at its meetings of 28 June, 5 July, 11 July and 13 September 2023, and following the third Grant Thornton report on Toy Show The Musical, the McCann FitzGerald report, including voluntary exit packages, and, of course, the future funding challenges facing RTÉ. At the outset, I wish to explain some limitations on...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Department is what are the obstacles in the way of producing the full Bill needed. Change is difficult and not without risk but even this amendment Bill has seen serious concerns raised by Eleanor Fitzgerald, president of the Coroners Society of Ireland. She has said that the Bill compromises the independence and functioning of the office of the coroner. It is important that any Bill...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... He cut his teeth as Parliamentary Secretary or junior Minister in the areas of industry and education from 1973 to 1977. In 1981, at the age of 34, he was appointed as Minister for Finance by Garret FitzGerald - an office that he held twice. He also served as Minister for Industry and Energy, Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Industry, Trade Commerce and Tourism in...

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...did not have to worry about answering in relation to standards in public office because they had the highest standards. He belongs to a generation of great politicians including Liam Cosgrave, Garret FitzGerald, Jack Lynch, Des O'Malley, and right up to my own leader, Micheál Martin. These are people who put the country first. They looked after their party interests but they looked...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...; Associates Solicitors €29,446 Gibson & Associates Solicitors €17,038 Hanlon & Company Solicitors €47,675 Kayanne Horgan Solicitors €47,355 Anthony Joyce & Co €307,382 Alan McGee & Co Solicitors ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: ...students in west County Limerick when they grow up. The school's interest and track record is excellent. They have mobilised. They formed a committee. The chair is a young man named Shane Fitzgerald. They are supervised by their teacher, Ms Marie Keane. They have come to me and every other Oireachtas Member in Limerick city and county outlining this problem they have. They are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...teilifíse, athchóiriu a dhéanamh ar RTÉ agus é a chur ar bhonn maoiniú inbhuanaithe. Yesterday, we were all given another glimpse, if we needed another one, of the culture that prevailed at RTÉ under the former director general and successive Governments. The report by McCann Fitzgerald found ten redundancies under the 2017 voluntary exit programme did...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: It is coming up at people's front doors. Our local councillor, Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald, is constantly raising it with me.

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Feb 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...We had the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, in the House on Tuesday, when we outlined concerns on Second Stage that were brought to me by the president of the Coroners Society of Ireland, Dr. Eleanor Fitzgerald, and I have had other representations since from other coroners. They are concerned not about the part about Dublin getting or needing more coroners, which is a given that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...with RTÉ. It is proposed to note and publish the correspondence. The report on Toy Show The Musicalcame out last week. It is important that we engage with RTÉ on it. I said at the time that if we had the McCann FitzGerald report, we should bring RTÉ back in on both matters. In light of what came out yesterday in the McCann FitzGerald report, which showed serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...young people continue to struggle to put an affordable and secure roof over their heads. Under his Government, the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse, with sky-high house prices, rip-off rents and a severe shortage of housing stock, as again highlighted in research published yesterday by Sherry FitzGerald auctioneers. People who work hard and have done all the right things to...