This evening Senator Ivor Callely was suspended from membership of Fianna Fáil pending an investigation – this follows his resignation of the whip of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party last month. Ogra Fianna Fáíl have tonight released a statement saying that they are going to move a motion looking for his expulsion from the party. [...]
I don’t usually do blog posts on rumours but there’s an awful lot of whispering going on regarding the President calling a meeting of Council of State and sending the Civil Partnership Bill to the Supreme Court to test it’s constitutionality. Early this afternoon the phone and the gchat started going from people in all [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Constitutionality·Council of State·Politics·Supreme Court
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
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
Fine Gael have this week launched a new campaign titled NewEra, with accompanying website outlining their plans for jobs, broadband, energy and water policies. The website has videos from Enda Kenny, Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar talking about these plans (George Lee look at what you are missing!) And then there is this – Whack [...]
Tags:Enda Kenny·Fine Gael·Leo Varadkar·Politics·Simon Coveney
The Standards in Public Office Commission this week released a report into the state funding of political parties. The purpose of the state funding is laid out in the Electoral Act 1997 ” … the general conduct and management of the party’s affairs and the lawful pursuit by it of any of its objectives and, [...]
Tags:Fianna Fáil·Fine Gael·Ireland·Political party·Politics·Standards in Public Office Commission
Remember the last time Blue State Digital, who include some of the creatives behind the Obama campaign, came to Dublin? John Drennan delights (as only he can!) in telling readers of the Sunday Independent that BSD are coming back and are going to address a meeting of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party on Tuesday night. [...]
Tags:Blue State Digital·Fianna Fáil·Ireland·Parties·Politics
Next week Fine Gael is launching a site called Nationaldebt.ie – complete with one of those clocks that keeps moving upwards with Ireland’s national debt on it. They even have stats on the debt per household and per person. You can get a sneak preview on Leo Varadkar’s website. Our national debt increases by €35,578 [...]
Tags:Business·Financial Services·Fine Gael·Leo Varadkar·Politics
So as expected there were politicians giving up and ‘voluntarily forgoing’ their pensions all day. Labour’s 3 ministerial pension holders went first (not before time) followed by the Fine Gael crew (not before time either) and then came Bertie (Fianna Fáil were so fed up dealing with requests from the Press for comments on Bertie [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Fianna Fáil·Ireland·Jim McDaid·Liam Aylward·Michael Woods·Politics
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