Owen, NoraWednesday, 1 May 1991 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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I wish to clarify a point. Little more than a week ago all people were registered on the census form. Even if they were not ordinarily resident in the State as they have been listed on our census fo...
Similarly, visitors were part of the count of the people in Ireland and will be used for statistical purposes. I wonder if that is not a little anomalous. If I could prove that I, a visitor, was here ...
Adjournment Debate Matters.
A Cheann Comhairle, could you help me in regard to an issue? I am not questioning your ruling but is there any mechanism for raising in this House something like a typhoon as an emergency? I am at a ...
A typhoon is surely an emergency.
Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1990: Committee Stage (Resumed).
How well the Minister did not say to Deputy Gilmore that he was seductive.
Educational Exchange (Ireland and the United States of America) Bill, 1991: Committee and Final Stages.
I agree with the sentiment behind Deputy Higgins's amendment. The whole area of academic research, cultural activity and endeavour has changed dramatically since 1957 when the first scholarship fund w...
Were they attached to a programme?
And applied in their own right?
I could not get my hands on a copy.
When students, whether post graduate, research or teachers, return having completed the exchange programme, what onus rests on them to prove they have participated in the programme? I presume they mu...
I would like further information on the Minister's appointments to the commission. When the Minister is making appointments to a commission which will have to make judgments on a very wide agenda, do...
Could somebody be appointed for six months if they had completed a year and a half of the first term?
Or four.
What about women members?
The Minister will keep it in mind.
There are many such women.
And your wisdom.
I want to refer to that same point. Deputy Higgins and I must have been looking over each other's shoulder because I, too, read this subsection with a certain amount of surprise. I not only wondered ...
I want to say something to the Minister in case he gets the wrong impression. I was 13½ years old when in 1957, legislation to initiate this scheme first came to this House and I have no knowledge or...
I thought there might be some hidden meaning.
Subsection (6) says that the Government may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make contributions to the commission for the purposes of its functions. Will the Minister give us an indication ...
Subsection (2) states that members of the commission may not themselves benefit by way of scholarship or travel bursaries. I do not know whether the Minister had time this morning to hear of the majo...
I wonder if this section does not unduly restrict the commission. Under section 7 there is a very wide range of powers. In fact, one of the selling points of this Bill according to the Minister was t...
Will I read out what was in the 1957 Act?
I have the Act in front of me, and it does not say “after consultation with the Minister for Finance”. Section 8 (3) says “The expenditure of the Board during each period of twelve months beginning on...
I have no objection to allowing the Minister for Finance have some say in moneys invested in Government securities and so on. However, the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be the supreme Minister in...
It is the Minister for Finance who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth.
I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, line 1, after “accept” to insert“, seek”.
And a comma.
If it is any consolation to the Minister, I could almost guarantee that that is exactly the kind of amendment to this Bill that the US side want. They did not ask me to put in this amendment, but I kn...
I will if the debate here is to stand part of the intention of this Bill so that when the commission run into a difficulty I can produce this debate of May Day 1991 and tell them that they are entitle...
It would not be photocopies and so on, would it?
Can the Minister of State give us any idea of the expenses which might be incurred by him? I assume since this body is being given autonomy they will be able to open up offices and sign agreements fo...
It may be of interest to Deputy Higgins and the Minister of State to learn that the same point was made by our own resident Gaelic scholar, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Tunney, with whom I had a ...
I welcome the fact that this Bill outlines the way in which the scheme is to be operated. I am sure the Minister will do some study before he appoints the ladies and gentlemen of the commission and I...
Private Members' Business. - An Bille um an Aonú Leasú Déag ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3), 1991: An Dara Céim (atógáil). Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill, 1991: Second Stage (Resumed).
You cannot take any special credit for them. Europe is making us do all this.
The Deputy was being critical.
It is extremely good.
During the recess I heard a radio interview with a woman who works as a radio presenter with a radio station in England. I do not know if any of my colleagues in the House heard it but, during that i...
Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.
Asked the minister: the number of people receiving disability benefit; and the average length of time of receipt of this benefit in months and years for each recipient.
Written Answers. - Policy on Refugees.
Asked the minister: if he will give details of the amalgamation of the policy advisory committee on refugees and the refugee resettlement committees; the terms of reference of the amalgamated committee; and if it will ca...
Written Answers. - Convention on Asylum.
Asked the minister: if, under the Dublin Agreement during the Irish Presidency in 1990, asylum seekers were denied the right to seek asylum if they have passed through or spent time in another EC country without seeking ...
Asked the minister: the status of applications for asylum as refugees by persons (details supplied), noting that these applications were made in spring 1990.
Asked the minister: if he will indicate the average time it takes to make a decision on an application for asylum as a refugee.
Written Answers. - Decisions on Refugees.
Asked the minister: the number of decisions his Department have made on refugees that differed from recommendations of the UNHCR; and if he will give the reasons for such differences.
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