National Parliaments and the European Union: The Constitutional Challenge for the Oireachtas and Other Member State Legislatures
Maman Poulet (Free subscription) | yesterday
The emails and letters to Oireachtas members in advance of the debate on the Civil Partnership Bill continue (#cpbill) Renew as you may remember is the new ‘national’ organisation campaigning for lots of ‘down with that sort of thing’ vigour. It would seem however that many of their emails landed in the spam folders [...]
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
An Oireachtas Committee is planning to question AIB managing director designate Colm Doherty about the role of his capital markets division in the period before the rogue trader John Rusnak was detected in 2002 committing a €691m fraud. TDs from the Regulatory Affairs Committee, led by Fianna Fáil's Michael Moynihan ...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
THE SEANAD will not sit next Tuesday and the operation of the Dáil will be curtailed as a result of the national strike by civil and public servants in protest at Government proposals to cut pay.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
MUCH OF the registration fee paid by students of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) was not used for student services, the Oireachtas education committee heard yesterday.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Just on Oireachtas Report ---Quote--- This government is very experienced. The country is lucky to have such an experienced government ---End...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
IRELAND NEEDS a new electoral system that would allow TDs to serve their constituents better, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has told an Oireachtas committee.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Tatiana Pina PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - The Irish Dance Teachers Association of New England will host its 34th Annual New England Oireachtas Friday through Sunday at the Rhode Island Convention Center. The New England region has more than 120 registered teachers and adjudicators and is affiliated with An Coimsiun le rince Gaelacha (the Irish Dancing Commission), the largest worldwide organization of certified...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
THE EU must play a more active role in the Middle East and use its significant economic and political influence in the region, a report published by two Oireachtas committees has stated.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
THE PLANNED national public sector strike later this month will see the health service reduced to a Christmas Day level of activity and local authorities only providing an emergency fire service, while the Civil Service will be mainly restricted to the Coast Guard and a limited Met Office operation. However, the Oireachtas will remain open.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I am watching Oireachtas report at the moment with my jaw on the floor. Senator after Senator is getting up on their feet arguing that mortgages...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
RETAINING DIFFERENT kinds of electronic data for one and two years is necessary for law enforcement, Minister of State for Justice Peter Power told the Oireachtas committee on justice, defence and women’s rights yesterday.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
THERE HAS been a “huge increase” in middle-class families seeking help from Family Resource Centres (FRC) because of the downturn, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.
Maman Poulet (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Handed in this morning. A shirt and tie. No word on the quality of the items, Charvais or otherwise. I know Senators were up late last night and may have been busy between votes but I’m relieved to say all the members I observed were fully clothed. Wonder will the found articles be reclaimed. If anyone knows [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
LESS THAN a tenth of applications by banks and building societies to repossess homes from borrowers in default on mortgages lead to repossessions, the Irish Banking Federation (IBF) has told an Oireachtas committee.
Counago & Spaves (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Pat Leahy in yesterday's Sunday Business Post : Former president Mary Robinson was expressing her disappointment last week about how few women are involved in politics at a senior level in this country. "I am disappointed at the number of women in parliament in Ireland in both houses of the Oireachtas," the former president told Claire Byrne on the Breakfast Show on Newstalk. Indeed. Of course,...
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