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Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I understand the Cabinet will receive the report next Tuesday and ask whether time will be set aside next week to discuss its contents.

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Howlin, for bringing a timely and important motion before the House. It is quite a lengthy motion and if I read it into the record this evening, I doubt I would have any speaking time left. It is quite a substantial motion. While it is a lengthy motion, it is not complex. It lists a series of measures that should have been taken in recent decades....

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (Resumed) (10 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: There are two types of disfunctionality for anybody who examines management: structural deficiencies and system deficiencies. Both have been created by the type of governance to which this country has become accustomed because of Fianna Fáil's business culture in running the country. I arrived into this House in 2007 as a new TD. I, like everybody else, would like to leave some legislative...

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I received two such replies today.

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: We should begin by asking ourselves why we are holding this debate this morning. The reason is that for more than one and a half years, the Government has shown general contempt for the public, the electorate and the courts. This is reflected in Mr. Justice Kearns's ruling yesterday. In his summing up, Mr. Justice Kearns stated: "Far from the Court 'tearing asunder' the provisions of the...

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: He did not come into the House yesterday afternoon-----

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: -----when the matter was being debated under a special notice question. He was hiding outside the door to come in to talk about his Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill. As soon as we had finished the private notice questions, the Minister flew in, made his speech and while the two main Opposition spokespersons were responding to his proposal for a mayor, he...

Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election (4 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: We will never get electoral reform in this country if we cannot get a Government that will give us an election.

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The engine must have power.

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann a) recognising the potential value for the greater Dublin area of a directly elected mayor, adequately resourced and with appropriate powers; b) noting that the next local elections are not due to be held until 2014, and believing that it would be preferable for any election of a new mayor...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Labour Party amendment to the Bill is not accepted, we will end up with the creation of a greater Dublin area transport council, chaired by the mayor. Five people will be appointed by the mayor and five by the Minister of Transport. The council will also include the cathaoirleach of the Mid-Eastern Regional Authority, which I believe has 12 members. There will be also a regional...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps it is coincidental that local government has suffered during that time and the powers of local authority members have been retracted. The McCarthy report commented on minimising the role of local government. Deputy Connick and I were members of the AMAI before we entered the House and we both know local government has been subject to a process that can be best equated to...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The relevance is clear. The Minister of State was not in the Chamber when I introduced the context. If he had attended for my full contribution, Deputy Cuffe would not need to upset himself. The relevance was that there is a difference between a good idea and the implementation of legislation. I said a mayor is a good idea but the Government's management of the issue is bad. I cited a...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Tweeter Boyle.

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Ceann Comhairle is using up my speaking time, if he does not mind.

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I understand that the Government is crisis-driven by the decision in the court this morning, but what is new? It has been crisis-driven since 2007. However, it was not unknown to the Government that priority questions were submitted to the Ceann Comhairle's office this morning. It was known that a debate would take place here this afternoon and there is an expectation that the line...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister is pushing the boat out there.

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question : To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he plans to take arising from the judgment of the High Court today in the case taken in relation to the outstanding Donegal South-West by-election.

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for his response but I wish to bring a couple of matters to his attention. In his ruling calling for this by-election, Mr. Justice Kearns said that it was an unprecedented situation that a vacancy should be set for so long. He also mentioned the absence of legislation governing the specifics of this area. The reason for the delay is two-fold: first, the...

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: At a lunchtime conference today, however, the Greens said that the by-elections should occur as soon as possible. What does "as soon as possible" actually mean? The Minister of State has indicated that they will take place in the spring.