The verdict came last night just after 9pm, Dan Boyle brought the recommendation from the Seanad Select Committee on Members Interest’s investigation. The Senators who had been kept waiting in the house on the last sitting day until 9pm voted unanimously in agreement with the recommendation to suspend. Ivor Callely didn’t even show up after [...]
Tags:Government·Ivor Callely·Michael Lowry·Michael Lynn·Oireachtas·Select Committee
This afternoon Ivor Callely is supposed to be appearing at another sitting of the Seanad Select Committee of Members Interests investigating his mileage expenses. However word reached us yesterday via the Marian Finucane Programme that the Senator is in Oslo. (I got my spade out.) A little more investigation reveals that Ivor is the Head [...]
Tags:Democracy·Government·Ivor Callely·Leinster House·Oireachtas·Seanad Select Committee of Members Interests·Select Committee·Whips
I’m back from the land of serrano ham, great weather and good company (fully paid for by myself) but while I was away I did catch Ivor Callely’s statement to the Seanad as he made it. It’s on video if you missed it! I have had a number of people get in touch about the [...]
Tags:Government·Seanad Eireann
At 10 am this morning in Committee Room 2, the Committee stage of the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 will reconvene. This is the stage where amendments are proposed and debated on the bill. The first part of these proceedings took place last month and saw a number of amendments tabled by the opposition. Some of [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Debate·Government·Joint Oireachtas Committee·Oireachtas·Politics
National media reported last Wednesday that a senior official from Wicklow County Council was arrested in connection with an investigation into the deaths of two fire fighters in the county in 2007. It was some senior official – and it took the local press to report that the person arrested was in fact the County [...]
Maybe this can be a new series for MP. (submissions to tips @ mamanpoulet.com ) Yesterday evening a ministerial press release landed in my inbox – I didn’t know about the launch of a political pamphlet by Niall Crowley for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland but it obviously got up the nose of Minister of [...]
The Public Sector workers in Kerry are still protesting on TD’s doorsteps. A short video published this week gives me an opportunity to ponder on the special backbencher that is Jackie Healy Rae. From his website June 1997. The night Jackie Healy-Rae was elected TD for South Kerry the scene in Killarney was like Puck [...]
Leaving aside Sargent’s error in writing the letter. This is not rocket science. Help me out here. There are maybe three general groupings that the letters could have come from (and it could have been from one or more of them) Trevor Sargent’s Office The Gardai, or sources close to the Gardai, DPP’s office or [...]
There has been much coverage in the past few weeks of a major disagreement between Niall Mellon’s Township Trust and Irish Aid – the state funding agency for overseas development aid. While the funding questions that Irish Aid have about the Trust may be resolved, I’m wondering about the questions about the sustainability of the [...]
Speaking in the Dáil last night on the banking inquiry and why it should be public and conducted by the Oireachtas – I know I’ve called him a national treasure before but his speeches and their content and delivery are just stunning. There are challenges to all on their understanding and desire for true Parliamentary [...]
Tags:Dáil·Dáil Éireann·Government·Michael D Higgins·Oireachtas
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