From the Whitehouse website a rare insight into the holding of a cabinet meeting under Obama. I know the Irish cabinet confidentiality rule will be rolled out here to say why it couldn’t happen but I would support any insight into how politics works here from my perusal of youtube comments and facebook groups the [...]
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There’s a multitude of Paul Gogarty related groups on Facebook – one of the first to be set up has Paul himself posting on it this evening. You’d think he’d be lying low and hoping it would pass – but no this is all about keeping the story going while the bill itself is swept [...]
Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, was responding to the committee stage of the Social Welfare Bill (No. 2) in the Dáil today – (after Gogartygate). The bill provides for the cuts in social welfare of 4.1% for all social welfare payments for those under 65 and a cut in childnd I benefit. [...]
So we had the audio, The video and the Ringtone, and the unofficial transcript. All in 90 mins from the utterance. Update Kildarestreet.com have rushed out the transcript of the incident and urge us to ‘Get it before they remove it from the record!’ Harry McGee writes about the list of words that are banned [...]
Tags:#gogartygate·Ceann Comhairle·Paul Gogarty·Paul Gogarty TD
The vote on the Social Welfare cuts in #budget10 is taking place tomorrow so that TD’s don’t have to get it in the neck when they go home at the weekend. I assume whatever happens with the vote that we might see a new version of this video and that the campaign won’t die down. [...]
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Tonight I’ve been delving into the book of estimates released today in addition to the budget which I was tweeting throughout the day. Isn’t it just miraculous when lots of agencies that deal with peoples lives and provide services directly to people are having their budgets slashed that one – the National Disability Authority (NDA) [...]
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I’m very glad I wasn’t around yesterday listening to the radio when Newstalk decided it was going to do an O’Reilly – I meant Bill O and not Tony O… but hey if it narks Denis O’Brien who cares! If you missed the Newstalk Editorial you can read it in full here. But here’s the [...]
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Today’s Wicklow Times is reporting that Senator Deirdre de Burca is packing her bags and heading for Brussels to work in the cabinet of Ireland’s new European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn . Now you may remember the last time Senator de Burca hitched the parachute to her back and flew. This time she is going further [...]
Berfore the debate took place yesterday you may remember hearing that FF were having a special meeting with Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern. The meeting was to discuss the possible inclusion of an amendment protecting those who do not want to offer services to those registering their civil partnership or being [...]
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Lucinda Creighton was due to speak on the Civil Partnership Bill this evening but when the Ceann Comhairle called her name the Deputy for Dublin South East was nowhere to be found. Wondering if the discussions in Fine Gael about the florist cop out amendment are getting a bit too much for her? I’m sure [...]
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