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By: The Greens in government: the challenges ahead at Irish Election

The Greens in government: the challenges ahead at Irish Election — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:15:52 +0000

[...] the ecological wing of Fianna Fail. They may be bound by the June negotiations on issues such as the Dail summer recess and a Seanad voting pact (both in the news today), but in future a few hissy fits wouldn’t go [...]

By: Will

Will — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:24:21 +0000

Cian, just thought I’d ask since you mentioned quangos: is there an (un)official list somewhere?

The best general info I could find on numbers is here: http://tinyurl.com/255nqd (Times Online)

An overview of the Tasc information referenced in the article above: http://www.tascnet.ie/showPage.php?ID=152

The Tasc report – probably the published version? – is here (PDF): http://www.tascnet.ie/upload/Outsourcing%20Final%20Copy%20April%2024th.pdf

Thanks for giving us more posts to read here during the break, by the way… =)

By: Wednesday

Wednesday — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:09:02 +0000

There was a Dáil Reform committee set up a few years ago but it went nowhere. The truth is most TDs (on both sides of the house) don’t want the Dáil to sit longer because if it did, they’d have less time for the constituency work that makes up the bulk of what a TD does.

And for all the whinging that goes on about the short Dáil term, the voters would be the first to complain if the Dáil sessions were extended, because then their TDs would have less time to answer their letters, attend their public meetings, go to their funerals, etc.

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:42:56 +0000

To me it's especially mind-boggling that the Dail decamps on the day that the sites for the co-located hospitals and the route and stations for Metro West are announced (the latter also leaving me wondering whether there's still a Bertie Bowl zombie going to be sprung on us all at some point). Surely the Dail would want to discuss both issues -- especially as each was made by an alphabet soup of quangos (HSE and RPA) -- accountability is already a thin reed.

By: Joe’s Blog » Blog Archive » Greens go on holiday

Joe’s Blog » Blog Archive » Greens go on holiday — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:42:39 +0000

[...] test of the Greens will be the increase in sitting days of the Dail promised (Via Irish Election) more than double Dáil sitting time with sittings running 45 weeks per year Monday afternoons to [...]