Showing results 1 - 10 of 14 for the category: Taoiseach.
Taoiseach on the homeless
Gerry Adams (SF, Louth) drew attention to the ‘grim reality’ of homelessness in Dublin (Dail Eireann, Debates, 14th December 2011, 6-7). Night after night, from summer time to the freeze of winter, people were forced to sleep rough and there…
Appointments: NESC, alignment, Oireachtas committees
The Taoiseach informed the Dail of his appointments of independent members to the National Economic and Social Council (Dail Eireann, Debates, 22nd November 2011, 368). They were: Mary Daly, Queen’s University, Belfast Anna Davis, University College Dublin Michelle Morris…
Social partnership, appointments, dissolution of Comhar, Library Council
Creation of new state agencies in economic field The Taoiseach told Micheal Martin (FF, Cork SC) that he had met members of the social partnership organizations, including the environment pillar and the voluntary and community pillar, when he addressed the…
Funding for social housing, dormant accounts
The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Willie Penrose, told Catherine Murphy (ind, Kildare N) that although €114m had been supplied to local authorities for capital assistance for voluntary social housing projects in…
North South Consultative Forum
Asked by Gerry Adams (SF, Louth) about progress toward the North South Civic Consultative Forum, the Taoiseach told the Dail that at the 12th meeting of the North South Ministerial Council in Dublin on 10th June ‘we agreed to finalize…
Cabinet subcommittee on social policy
The Taoiseach told Joe Higgins (SP, Dublin W) and Gerry Adams (SF, Louth) that the sub-committee on social policy had met once so far, on 9th June (Dail Eireann, Debates, 21st June 2011, 12).
New National Economic and Social Council
The Taoiseach announced in the Dail that he had made, on 20th January, fresh appointments to the National Economic and Social Council (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th January 0211, 460-1)). The appointments for the voluntary and community pillar were Fr Sean…
Oireachtas Brief §12 December 2010 (1) Budget 2011
Welcome to Oireachtas Brief, the information service for social justice NGOs and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. Oireachtas Brief is provided by The Wheel and the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN)…
EU2020 strategy: Ireland’s programme due April
The progress of the EU2020 strategy, which includes important targets against poverty, was raised in the Dail by Joan Burton (Lab, Dublin W) who told the Taoiseach that she understood that the first draft of the national reform programme had…
Children in the constitution
The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Barry Andrews, told the Dail that new wording for a constitutional amendment to protect children was being drafted in the Attorney General’s office and it was hoped that a…
