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PUBLIC AFFAIRS IRELAND NEWSLETTER Your Essential Weekly Guide to Legislative, Regulatory and Public Affairs in Ireland Issue 279 June 10 2013 PUBLIC AFFAIRS IRELAND NEWSLETTER Your essential weekly guide to legislative, regulatory and public affairs in Ireland Issue 279 June 10 2013 Oireachtas Update A number of bills are on the agenda for discussion in the Dáil this week including: the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013, Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013 and the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012. In the Seanad, statements will be delivered on hospital services. The Public Service Oversight and Petitions Committee will meet this week to discuss the strategy on suicide awareness. The Minister of State at the Departments of Health and of Justice, Equality and Defence with responsibility for Disability, Equality, Mental Health and Older People, Kathleen Lynch TD will attend the meeting. News and public sector appointments Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine appointed Deputy Tom Hayes has been appointed by the on Agriculture in the Seanad and, for eight Government as Minister of State at the Department years, as Chairperson of the Fine Gael of Agriculture, Food and Marine, assuming the Parliamentary Party. Since 2011, he has role held by the late Shane McEntee. He will have served as Chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas special responsibility for Forestry, Horticulture, Committee on Transport and Communications. the Greyhound Industry and Food Safety. Speaking on his appointment, Minister Hayes said The new Minister of State is a beef farmer from he delighted with the opportunity and looks forward Golden, Co Tipperary. He was first elected to the Dáil to working alongside the Minister Simon Coveney in 2001 for Tipperary South and previously served and other Government colleagues “on the continued as a member of Seanad Eireann from 1997 to 2001. development of these very important sectors”. Deputy Tom Hayes will assume He has served as opposition spokesperson responsibility for Forestry, Horticulture, the Greyhound Industry and Food Safety Nomination to Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Mr Sean Donlon has been nominated by the Government Ireland is a founder member of the London based EBRD. The to the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Bank was established in 1991 to help develop a new private sector Development (EBRD). He will replace Mr Eoin Ryan who has in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc. The EBRD is the largest served on the Board since 2010. Mr Donlon will give up a number single investor in the region and mobilises significant foreign direct of non-executive directorships upon assuming his new role. investment for the region in addition to the financing it provides itself. Mr Donlon is a former Secretary General of the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan thanked the departing Mr Ryan Department of Foreign Affairs. He is also a former for his work and welcomed the nomination of Mr Donlon who he says US Ambassador and former Ambassador to Mexico. will no doubt bring “a wealth of experience to his new appointment”. Members of Referendum Commission announced The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Kieran Coughlan; and the Clerk of the Seanad, Ms Deirdre Lane. Phil Hogan TD, has announced members of the independent The Commission will be required to prepare a statement containing a statutory Referendum Commission for the upcoming Thirty-second general explanation of the subject matter of the referendum proposal; Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013. to publish this statement and distribute it to the electorate; to promote The Hon. Ms. Justice Elizabeth Dunne is to act as Chairperson awareness of the referendum; and encourage the electorate to vote. of the Commission. The other members of the Commission are: The Commission will also consider and rule on applications from bodies or the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Seamus McCarthy; groups for declaration as approved bodies who may appoint agents at the the Ombudsman, Ms Emily O’Reilly; the Clerk of the Dáil, Mr referendum to be present at polling stations and at the counting of votes. Public Affairs Tel: 01 8198500 Ireland Fax: 01 8944733 25 Mountjoy E: [email protected] Square East www.publicaffairsireland.com Dublin 1 twitter.com/publicaffairsir Oireachtas Schedule: Week beginning June 10 2013 Dáil Tuesday June 11 Wednesday June 12 Thursday June 13 2pm 10.30am 10.30am Questions (Minister for Communications, Leaders Questions Leaders Questions Energy and Natural Resources) 10.51am 10.51am 3.15pm Order of Business Order of Business Leaders Questions Expressions of Sympathy on former deputy PJ Motion re Environment Planning Regulations (Back from Committee) 3.36pm Morley (without Debate) (Department of the Environment Community and Questions (Taoiseach) Local Government) Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013 Order for 4.36pm Report, Report and Final Stages (Department Further Education and Training Bill 2013 Report and Final Stages Order of Business of the Environment Community and (resumed) (to adjourn at 1.30 p.m. today if not previously concluded) Local Government) (Department of Education and Skills) T o p i c a l I s s u e s Motion re Church of Ireland College of Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011 Order for Education (Referral to Committee without 2012 (Seanad) Order for Report, Report and Report, Report and Final Stages (Department of Finance) Debate) (Department of Education and Final Stages (Department of Health) Skills) Further Education and Training Bill 2013 3.42pm Motion re: Cork Prison Resolution Order for Report, Report and Final Stages) Topical Issues (Referral to Committee without debate) (Department of Education and Skills) (Department of Justice and Equality) 4.30pm 1.30pm Questions (Minister for Justice and Equality) Motion re: Committee Stage of Social SOS Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous 5.45pm Provisions) Bill 2013 (without debate) 2.30pm Thirty-Second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Questions (Minister for Environment, Eireann) Bill 2013 Order for Second Stage and Second Stage (to Social Welfare and Pensions Community and Local Government) adjourn after opening speeches) (Department of the Taoiseach) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 3.45pm Committee and Remaining Stages Topical Issues (to conclude at 10pm if not previously Friday June 14 concluded) (Department of Social 7.30pm Protection) Private Members Business 10.30am 7.30pm Private Members Business Access to the Countryside Bill 2013 (Deputy Robert Dowds) Seanad Tuesday June 11 Wednesday June 12 Thursday June 13 2.30pm 10.30am 10.30am Order of Business Order of Business Order of Business Motion regarding the Employment Equality Motion regarding draft Planning and Development Act 1998 (Section 12) (Church of Ireland 11.45am (Amendment) Regulations 2013 pursuant to College of Education) Order 2013 – Referral European Union (Accession of the Section 262 of the Planning and Development Act, to Committee without debate Republic of Croatia) (Access to Labour 2000 – Back from Committee without debate [Department of Education and Skills] Market) Bill 2013 – Order for Second [Department of the Environment, Community and Spokesperson Senator Jim D’Arcy Stage and Second Stage [Department of Local Government] Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation] Spokesperson Senator Cait Keane Spokesperson Senator Deirdre Clune 3.45pm 11.45am Criminal Justice Bill 2013 – Committee and European Union (Accession of the Republic of Remaining Stages 2.30pm Croatia) (Access to Labour Market) Bill 2013 – [Department of Justice and Equality] Private Members Business [Sinn Féin Committee and Remaining Stages [Department Spokesperson Senator Paul Bradford. Senators] Motion on Unemployment of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation] Spokesperson Senator Deirdre Clune 4.30pm 5.30pm Public Service Management (Recruitment Statements on Hospital Services [Minister and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill for Health] Spokesperson Senator Colm 2013 – Order for Second Stage and Burke Second Stage [Department of Public Expenditure and Reform] Spokesperson Senator Tom Sheahan Oireachtas Schedule: Week beginning June 10 2013 Committee Meetings Tuesday June 11 Wednesday June 12 Thursday June 13 12 noon 9.30am 9.30am Health and Children Justice, Defence and Equality Health and Children Committee Room 1, Leinster House Committee Room 2, Leinster House Committee Room 2, Leinster House AGENDA: Session A: 12 noon AGENDA: Session A: 9.30am Motion re. Section AGENDA: Tackling Childhood Obesity Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for 26(1) of the Prisons Act 2007 approving the [Dr Sinead Murphy, Consultant Non Consultant Hospital Doctors [Mr Barry O Brien, development of a new prison in Cork City (subject Paediatrician and Clinical Lead, National Director Human Resources; Mr Andrew to referral) and Ms Grace O’Malley, Senior Condon, Human Resources, Mr Kieran Browne Session B: 2pm Recognition of Traveller ethnicity Physiotherapist, W82GO (Childhood ISD Acute Hospitals and Ms Ann Pardy, Human [Dr Robbie McVeigh and Dr Jim MacLoughlin.] Obesity) Programme, Dr Aoife Brinkley, Resources, Health Service Executive]; and Senior Clinical Psychologist, Ms Kizzy Session B: 5pm Childcare Facilities and Inspections 9.30am Moroney, Paediatric Dietitian, Temple [Minister for Children and Youth Affairs; Mr Gordon Transport and Communications Street Children’s University Hospital; Jeyes, Programme Director Agency Establishment, Committee Room 4, Leinster
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