A private members debate concluded tonight with the Government defeating a Fine Gael proposal to compel that by-elections to be held within six months of a vacancy arising. There are currently 3 vacancies to be filled in Donegal South West, Dublin South and Waterford. The Donegal vacancy is nearly a year old with the resignation [...]
Tags:Alan Shatter·Dáil·Donegal South West·Fine Gael·Ireland·John Gormley
The Minister was like a chased hare at a coursing event. He was getting attacked and questioned from all sides on this. This session of committee stage had to finish by 1:30pm and I reckon it couldn’t come soon enough for the Minister. He was taken away by his minders and we all went back [...]
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 [...]
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
Re-reading the Report of An Bord Snip Nua last week I noted the recommendations to remove several areas of the Equality brief from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to the Department of Enterprise and Employment. Included in the report are the following:- Reallocate the statutory employment and occupational benefits responsibilities of the [...]
Tags:Bord Snip·Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform·Dermot Ahern·John Gormley·Mary Coughlan·Taoiseach
‘Green Party Leader John Gormley, Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) Chairperson Kieran Rose, Deputy Chair of the Green Party’s National Council Roderic O’Gorman, and Green Party Justice and equality spokesperson Ciarán Cuffe discuss the Government’s new Civil Partnership Bill.’
Tags:Ciaran Cuffe·Gay and Lesbian Equality Network·Green·John Gormley·Roderic O'Gorman·Society and Culture
Amidst the hype on the junior minister resignations/sackings you may have missed a number of other news stories and spats at the Dáil returned from it’s Easter break. Questions to Justice, Equality and Law Reform Minister Dermot Ahern (he who hogged Questions and Answers on Monday night last..) yesterday in the Dáil continued to focus [...]
Tags:Dermot Ahern·Equality Authority·John Gormley·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Pat Rabbitte
I’m very #bludget hung over today and even worse I’ve been dealing with some of the announcements in the day job capacity and it’s not been pretty. As a result I was not paying close attention to twitter and the speeches in the Dáil on the resolutions or as they are known Financial Motions of [...]
Tags:Green·John Gormley·Labour·Pat Rabbitte·Politics·Youtube
So tonight it’s the turn of John Gormley to take 30 minutes of Saturday Evening television coverage. Last week I asked for suggestions for musical accompaniments for Brian Cowen. Suggestions for John? (@Allancavanagh apologises for the first one )
Tags:#gp09·John Gormley
Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the Green Party Convention in Wexford this weekend. There is however excellent coverage online from bloggers and the Green Party themselves with livestreams, liveblogging, twittering TD’s and a convention blog page. Tonight party leader and Minister for Environment, John Gormley, welcomed delegates to the conference. He brought good [...]
Tags:#gp09·Equality and Rights Alliance·Equality Authority·Green Party·John Gormley·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
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