While waiting for the publication of the report of the Review Group into Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant (5,000 people with disabilities are going to lose up to 20% of their income at the end of this month and few seem to care) thoughts also are not far away from very important legislation for [...]
I was invited by the Oireachtas Communications Unit to the Dáil to watch and tweet some of the proceedings of today’s debate to mark Europe Day. Myself, Ken Curtin, David Cochrane from Politics.ie and Billie Sparks from the European Movement were in attendance. There was little to report on the debate itself or that which [...]
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Just in from the Department of Justice and Law Reform Ahern Welcomes Coming Into Law of Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 The Minister for Justice & Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D., welcomed the coming into law of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act [...]
Tags:Civil and political rights·Civil Partnership and Certain Rights·Civil Partnership Bill·Mary McAleese·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Oireachtas
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
A bizarre evening of testimony from Ivor Callely at the reconvened sitting of the Seanad Select Committee to investigate members interests. As you may remember Ivor has been away in Norway and was unable to attend the committee until today. He spent a lot of time during the hearing (whilst not answering the committee’s questions) [...]
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
Last March following their spring meeting the Catholic Bishops issued a statement and published a leaflet on marriage and the family. Yesterday they met for the summer meeting and made another statement on the Civil Partnership Bill. * Protection and support for marriage and family Bishops discussed the statement Why Marriage Matters which was published [...]
Tags:Bishops' Conference·Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Dáil Éireann·Freedom of thought·Law·Oireachtas·Same-sex relationship
(Enoc Burke – Campaign for Conscience, Photo from Red Mum) You may have heard there are a few protesters against the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 outside Leinster House for the past few months. From various Christian groups they are calling for a freedom of conscience clause for registrars and others as well as opposing rights [...]
Tags:Civil Partnerships Bill·Kildare Street·Leinster House·National Mens Council of Ireland·Oireachtas
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
Today’s Sunday Business Post reports that there will be changes to the Civil Partnership in the coming weeks and the legislation continues it’s progress through committee stage in the Dáil. Niamh O’Connor reports that the name of the Bill is to be changed to the Civil Partnership and Cohabitation Bill 2009 to reflect the fact [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dermot Ahern·Irish Farmers Association·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Oireachtas
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