Nealon, Edward

Wednesday, 28 March 1990

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 397 No. 6

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Defence (Amendment) Bill, 1990: Committee Stage (Resumed).

It does not.More Button

On a point of order, the word “pensions” has been dropped in the corrected version of my amendment.More Button

Everything adds to the point the Minister is making.More Button

It is very hard to be patient.More Button

They are included under welfare.More Button

The Minister feels strongly about everything. Unfortunately he is not willing to do anything to change the Bill. Where is the point in parading his concern to us and simply not accepting the most re...More Button

The Minister said in answer to Deputy McCartan “I take the point”.More Button

Seeing it is the first move on the Minister's part, I will not be ungenerous because I expect he will also be conceding down along the line. I will not press my amendment, therefore. Amendment, by le...More Button

Amendment No. 10 in my name seeks to have written into the Bill an agreed process of negotiation, conciliation and arbitration. This area is of vital and basic importance to the success of the associ...More Button

It is in the Garda Síochána Act.More Button

Let the Minister stitch it in.More Button

I am very thankful that the Minister is doing that. It is a wise decision. It will add to the Bill and in that case I will not be pressing my amendment.More Button

Amendment No. 12 has nothing to do with this at all. Amendments Nos. 11 and 23 are related but amendments Nos. 12 and 22 are separate.More Button

I move amendment No. 11: In page 2, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following subsection:More Button

Is that the Government decision?More Button

I am dealing with the specific thing listed here as a Government decision.More Button

As far as the Permanent Defence Force representative group are concerned any misconceptions about this document spread abroad were directly the fault of the Minister and his Department. Government pro...More Button

I now come to the specific matter of access to the media. It is stated that the Government have decided to permit statements on behalf of individual groups. That is a tablet of stone. That is a Gov...More Button

Is that the way you treat a Government decision?More Button

And a correction will be made in the Government minutes.More Button

As I understand it, all important decisions, and this is an important decision, go into Government minutes.More Button

I am delighted to see you have changed this Government decision on this thing because it was a mistake in the first place.More Button

It was brought to your attention by myself first and then by Deputy Bell but I am glad you are willing to accept it was a mistake. Why did you put it into this document in the first place?More Button

Chairman, I do not think he has any right to interrupt. As far as this document is concerned, I notice another thing in passing. There is a heading for the Minister's comment here in the introductio...More Button

I would be very happy to accept that. These are the Minister's own words. If he is willing to tell me that he will put his own words, his own distilled thoughts — and who can do it better than himse...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Oil Imports from USSR.

Asked the minister: the progress, if any, which has been made in the proposed arrangements initiated by the Taoiseach to import oil from the Soviet Union.More Button

Defence (Amendment) Bill, 1990: Committee Stage (Resumed).

The idea that it is trivialising a right by including it in legislation is certainly a novel idea——More Button

To say, as far as a right is concerned, that it is negative to insert it in a Bill is an outrageous statement. As a result of discussions on these amendments we have established beyond all doubt that...More Button

I am glad that some progress has been made in that regard. The wording in the Minister's document is excellent in relation to concentrating the ideas we have put forward here and I am sure they will ...More Button

I move amendment No. 12: In page 2, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following subsection: “(4) An association shall be empowered to raise moneys by subscription of its members and shall have s...More Button

Contrary to what Deputy Bell has said, there is nothing in my amendment about the manner in which money might be raised or the manner in which it might be collected. I am simply asking for the right ...More Button

I move amendment No. 13: In page 2, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following subsection: “(5) An Association shall have the right to employ civilian agents or agencies as it deems appropriate...More Button

Amendment No. 16, in my name, states: In page 2, subsection (3), line 37, after “body.” to insert “A conflict of opinion between the Minister and an association shall be referred to conciliation and a...More Button

Written Answers. - Irish Development Project EC Funding.

Asked the minister: the number and value of projects with an Irish involvement which are in preparation for approval under the EC "Thermie" programme for 1990 to 1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter.More Button

Written Answers. - Cregg House (Sligo) Funding.

Asked the minister: if, in view of the urgent need for a gymnasium and hydrotherapy pool at Cregg House, Sligo, and the fact that this project was sanctioned by his Department in 1984 and, in view of the fact that the Si...More Button

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