# dail - Today’s News
Yesterday evening the justice minister said it was the Garda Commmissioner who informed him that Mick Wallace benefited from garda discretion.
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# dail - Saturday 18 May, 2013
The members of the convention voted by 57 to 41 per cent not to write to the Taoiseach seeking an opportunity to discuss the abolition of the chamber.
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# dail - Friday 17 May, 2013
While there are practical arguments for a bill that requires no constitutional change, it limits any reform across the whole legislative body, writes Eoin O’Malley.
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# dail - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is due before the Public Accounts Committee today.
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# dail - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
The Minister for Defence Alan Shatter said that there was nothing in the Garda Code, the Discipline Regulations or the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 which would prevent gardaí from availing of the service.
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Enda Kenny responds to calls for a Constitutional referendum on abortion during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today.
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# dail - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Should there be one TD per constituency – or should we keep the current system?
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The Constitutional Convention is seeking submissions on possible reforms to the way Irish politicians are elected to Dáil Éireann.
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# dail - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
So – we now have a draft ‘heads of bill’. Here’s what happens as the Government tries to turn it into law.
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# dail - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
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Coalition partners Fine Gael and Labour are due to set out conditions under which abortions can be legally carried out in Ireland.
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# dail - Monday 29 April, 2013
The former publican and auctioneer from Fermoy, Co Cork was first elected to the Dáil in 1953.
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# dail - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Adams rounded on the party for its political opportunism.
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# dail - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
# dail - Monday 22 April, 2013
The website, which allows the public to keep track of debates in the Oireachtas, was knocked offline by changes within Leinster House.
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# dail - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Dáil has passed leglisation to allow for the National Lottery licence to be sold.
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# dail - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Opposition TDs today called on Kenny to step in after the dispute broke out this week over judicial independence.
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The 26-year-old said it was “an honour” to take up the seat left vacant by her father, Shane.
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# dail - Saturday 13 April, 2013
The independent TD declined to comment when asked if he was interested in joining the party which itself has denied it has approached the former Progressive Democrat deputy.
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# dail - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Debates, meetings, touching base with constituents, heading up to Meath East by-election, organising sand bags, reading the newspapers and having words with his colleagues – Kevin Humphreys recounts his busy schedule this week.
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# dail - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The Dáil debated a Fianna Fáil-proposed private members’ motion on the mortgage arrears crisis tonight but it was easily defeated by the government’s majority.
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It disputes comments made by Minister Leo Varadkar who said that childcare costs would have to be taken into consideration in insolvency arrangements.
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# dail - Thursday 21 March, 2013
However Minister of State Alex White said that medical card coverage of the over 70s population stands at 97 per cent.
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While 43,000 households were exempted from last year’s household charge, only 5,100 households have been exempted from the local property tax.
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# dail - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Simon Coveney said today that the pillar banks had been contacted by the government about proposals to reduce salary levels.
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# dail - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Joan Collins was one of four TDs, including Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, who highlighted the issue of penalty points being quashed. She said revelations about ‘Ming’ will impact on the reputation of independent deputies.
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# dail - Thursday 14 March, 2013
Micheál Martin also questioned the Government about home repossessions following comments by Matthew Elderfield.
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# dail - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
A number of TDs have joined the movement at Leinster House today.
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Frank Dawson says he assumes he is the official Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan had referred to, and rejects the TD’s claims.
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The Wexford TD says, however, that Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s actions don’t change the ‘bigger issue’ of systematic termination.
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# dail - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
The Dáil deputy described what led up to him not receiving penalty points or a fine though he was caught by gardaí driving while on a mobile phone on two occasions.
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Organisers of tomorrow’s protest say it’s in response to a recent upsurge in anti-Traveller racism, “particularly from public representatives and members of the judiciary”.
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The independent TD was asked if he had penalty points wiped from his licence last December but denied he had. He intends to address the Dáil this evening.
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# dail - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Flanagan said gardaí contacted him offering to remove the points from his record.
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# dail - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
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# dail - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Michael D Higgins already voluntarily cut his pay by 23.5 per cent to just under €250,000 in 2011 but Áras an Uachtaráin will not say whether he would take a further pay cut.
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Paying attention to multiple, often mutually reinforcing disadvantages, can help us understand injustices committed against marginalised members of our society, writes Clara Fischer.
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# dail - Monday 25 February, 2013
A group of Labour TDs who are no longer part of the Labour parliamentary party are hoping to secure additional rights.
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# dail - Friday 22 February, 2013
Transport and Communications joint committee has launched a public consultation process to explore the use – and abuse – of social media. (And you can participate through social media).
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# dail - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
The matter relates to comments the independent TD made during a Dáil debate last June about the former mayor of Clonmel who is an abuse victim.
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