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Dáil
‹ Order of Business

Oireachtas Commission representation

Summary

Deputy Higgins objects to appointing another Government member to the Oireachtas Commission without Opposition or Technical Group representation; the Taoiseach rejects the novelty of the objection, and the remaining business arrangements are agreed.

It is not agreed that this issue should be taken without debate. This is a proposal that one Fine Gael member leaves the commission and is replaced by a second, at a time when the majority of the Opposition, the Technical Group and Sinn Féin, have no representation on this commission. This is a fundamental problem, particularly now with the situation faced by the Technical Group where its numbers are threatened to swell and overflow as the numbers for Fine Gael and Labour are depleted as a result of their unpopular policies and the hatred they are evoking among ordinary people as well as water charges, etc. We are looking for a debate on the issue so that the majority of the Opposition Deputies can put their arguments on why there should be a more democratic representation on the commission reflecting the make-up of Dáil Éireann.

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Enda Kenny The Taoiseach Fine Gael

I note the point that Deputy Higgins makes. He always makes the same point if there is a change in representation on the commission.

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I never made that point before.

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Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

Sit down, please, Deputy.

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Division Carried

Question put: "That the proposal for dealing with Nos. 14 and 14a, without debate, be agreed to."

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Níl 50

Do you agree with this result?

Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

Is the proposal for dealing with No. 31, statements on allegations regarding sexual abuse by members of the provisional republican movement, agreed to? Agreed.

Is the proposal for dealing with No. 32, statements on the fourth report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil electoral system, agreed to? Agreed.

Is the proposal regarding arrangements for dealing with No. 15, Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - instruction to committee, tomorrow agreed to? Agreed.

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