Ramming them through before the end

[Duisigh]

Bookmark for quango stuffing, comittee packing, pet legislation before the election.

Post them here if you know.

So far in the Oireachtas programme :

Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages
(Department of Justice and Law Reform)

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages
(Department of Health and Children)

jaysus lash them through there why don’t you, talk about parliamentary scrutiny !

Student Support Bill 2008 - Second Stage
Department of Education and Skills

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad] - Second Stage
(Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources) ( Postcodes - FUCK SAKE WHO CARES )

Climate Change Response Bill 2010 [Seanad] - Second Stage

Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009 [Seanad] - Report back from the Dáil FINALLY !

[The_Unwelcome_Guest]

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 - A onestop shop to get the incinerator at Poolbeg to be completely unviable…

[evilal]

I’m told the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2009 is being brought back to the Senate on Thursday. We’re being fined by the EU for being 2 years late passing it.

[Ferretone]

@evilal

I’m told the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2009 is being brought back to the Senate on Thursday. We’re being fined by the EU for being 2 years late passing it.

I wonder why we were late bringing that particular piece of legislation in … not storing data ehhh !

[Puck_may_be_Famous]

irishtimes.com/newspaper/fro … 62355.html

Coalition fills 90 State board posts during Christmas recess
MARY MINIHAN

THE GOVERNMENT made 90 appointments to State boards during the Dáil Christmas recess.

Figures released following a parliamentary question from Fine Gael TD Leo Varadkar show that of the 90 appointments made between December 14th, 2010, and January 13th, 2011, 54 were new appointees and 36 were reappointments.

The appointments were made to bodies including the Pension Board, the Health and Safety Authority, Competition Authority and the Labour Relations Commission.

Mr Varadkar accused Fianna Fáil Ministers of “stuffing” State bodies with “political appointees” and said board members would be asked to resign within six months by his party if it formed part of the next government.

He singled out Minister for Enterprise Batt O’Keeffe for particular criticism, saying he had made 20 new appointments and four reappointments. However, a spokesman for Mr O’Keeffe accused Mr Varadkar of resorting to a “political charge”.

[yoganmahew]

First action of the new Dail? A bill guillotining all state board appointments (i.e. all in the gift of ministers) when the government changes…

[ragingbear]

@yoganmahew

First action of the new Dail? A bill guillotining all state board appointments (i.e. all in the gift of ministers) when the government changes…

No - first guillotine their pension / golden handshake ‘entitlements’, then their ‘positions’ (and optionally them, their families and everyone they know).

[The_Unwelcome_Guest]

@yoganmahew

First action of the new Dail? A bill guillotining all state board appointments (i.e. all in the gift of ministers) when the government changes…

That would presume that FG / Labour would not appoint the same people…

[Howitzer]

Full thread on P.ie

politics.ie/fianna-fail/1477 … board.html

Long story short. LYIT buy site prone to flooding from FF cronies who desperately need the cash. Site may or may not be grossly overvalued. Site may or may not contain asbestos.

Couglan signs deal but insists everything is “above board”.

Report from Donegal Daily.

ASBESTOS STORM: THE Department of Education is refusing to release a top secret report into possible asbestos contamination at the Letterkenny site it purchased last month for €6M for LYIT. The site at Port Road – opposite the college – has been earmarked for an extension. The Department has also refused to release other details on the valuations of the land and potential flooding risks at the site. Tanaiste Mary Coughlan authorised the purchase of the site from Terry McEniffe, a former mayor and party colleague, and former Letterkenny town clerk Peter Coyle.

E-mail sent by Paul Hannigan,president of LYIT to all students today.

We would like to reassure all students and staff that, contrary to inferences made in the Friday 25 February edition of the Donegal News, the 10 acre site recently purchased by LYIT at Port Road, Letterkenny, is free of asbestos and other contaminants which would hinder our ability to develop the site.

An environmental site investigation study undertaken by specialists on our behalf in November 2010, as part of the comprehensive ‘due diligence’ process prior to our purchasing the site, established through detailed inspection and chemical analysis that there is no evidence of contaminated soil at the site.

Paul Hannigan

President