And now onto the Seanad. It’s 21 years since the first European State passed a registered partnership bill. Ireland today is on it’s way to catching up – slow as ever. The Bill passed without a vote and there were moving speeches at the end, some acknowledging the fact that the bill does not go [...]
Tags:Brendan Howlin·Ceann Comhairle·Civil Partnership·Civil Partnership Bill·Dermot Ahern·Green·Ireland·Mattie McGrath·Parties·Politics
The report stage of the Civil Partnership Bill will take place in the Dáil tomorrow night between 5pm and 9 pm. (Amendments tabled for debate) There is a liveblog available for commentary and you will be able to watch the debate on the liveblog or you can watch it by picking a stream from the [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dáil Éireann·Fianna Fáil·Green·Politics·Seanad Eireann
I’ve noticed in the last few days that Ciaran Cuffe, potential new minister is scrubbing up very well. Today this photo of the Green Party Parliamentary Party 2010 was released. Has he been to Louis Copeland? What has happened to the tweedie type jackets?
Tags:Ciaran Cuffe·Green·Politics
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 [...]
Green Party elected officials seem to be having problems with their consciences at the moment. And indeed it’s not only Deirdre de Burca who is calling John Gormley’s leadership into question. As I said on Friday there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that has very little to do with Willie O’Dea. The [...]
Colin Coyle in today’s Sunday Times reports on the appointment by Minister John Gormley of two former Green Party Councillors to the board of the Private Residential Tenancies Board where they can earn up to €25,000 per year in fees and expenses. Indeed one of the former councillors was one of a few electoral successes [...]
Tags:Green·Green Party·Politics
Some in Fianna Fáil think that those who wish to have their gender legally recognised as the gender they acquire do so for financial gain or to fiddle welfare systems. This is news to me! I don’t get how someone who changes their gender is better off financially (particularly as women still only earn 4/5ths [...]
Tags:European Convention on Human Rights·Fianna Fáil·Green·Human rights·Law·Mary Hanafin·Republic of Ireland
Press Release in from Green Party – note the mention of the possiblity of a freedom of concience amendment. Cuffe welcomes introduction of Civil Partnership Bill to Dáil -Bill will be introduced next Thursday The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Civil Partnership Bill is to be introduced to the Dáil next week. [...]
In the mid 90′s the joke about the Greens was that they didn’t care much about divorce once the fridge was disposed of correctly in the separation. This was the opinion of many regarding Green Party commitment to social justice issues. I know that this is an unfair description with regard to many Green Party [...]
Next Saturday afternoon the Green Party will debate a revised programme for government which is currently under negotiation with Fianna Fáil. Other than animal welfare/hare coursing (Now backpedalled?) and further changes to NAMA there has been mention that a new framework for Equality monitoring and enforcement being on the agenda. Another chance for John Gormley [...]
Tags:Green·Ireland·John Gormley·Politics
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