#Oireachtas

Ken Foxe

kenfoxe

Thread: Every day for the past month, I’ve tweeted documents obtained using Freedom of Information and about the uphill battle we face to ensure continued access to public records. I

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

More than half of these are likely one Public Private Partnership (PPP) deal, where the contractor won’t receive any payment until homes are occupied.. & then €1m /month, every month

Johnny Ryan

johnnyryan

A preview of this evening's parliamentary hearing from @ChasTaylor in The Irish Times this morning.https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/ireland-s-data-regulator-failing-to-rein-in-tech-giants-committee-to-hear-1.4548252 Kudos

Pat Leahy

PatLeahyIT

The outcry that followed the Oireachtas golf dinner was prompted by many things, but orbited one central idea: that the politicians and others who attended flouted the rules which everyone

Hannah Daly

HannahEDaly

I’m watching @greenparty_ie debates raging on the #PfG with many arguing against because the deal lacks ambition and concrete decarbonisation measures. My thoughts: The plan sets an ambition to *half*

Eoin Daly

eoinmauricedaly

Short thread on the Supreme Court ruling this week in Damache v Minister for Justice - which finds that the legislative process for revoking citizenship in Ireland is unconstitutional https://courts.ie/viewer/pdf/9f6e2c6d-eb77-4c9f-ad57-fff

Daragh O Brien

daraghobrien

Worth remembering that Irish Presidency is largely ceremonial in nature except when it comes to laws and dissolving governments. Even then powers are limited and have to be used astutely.This

Anthony O'Connor

Antcon7062

Seeing a lot of people giving NPHET a good kicking, even Pat Spillane. I understand why people are frustrated but we need to be a small bit realistic too. There

Conor O'Mahony

ConorUCCLaw

Seeing a lot of commentary, and quite a bit of confusion, about the President singing the Mother and Baby Homes Bill into law. Here's a quick explainer thread designed to

Mary 🙌🏻 WASH YOUR HANDS 🙌🏻 Roche

maryroche

#Waterford A thread. We are now in the final days of government formation negotiations. What delivery does Waterford (and by extension the South East) require from this government if they

Paul O'Donoghue

paulodonoghue93

A thread on the Mother + Baby bill passed tonight:The Dáil didn't vote to seal the records - that's happening bc of how the commission was set upBut, importantly, it

AttractaUB - Access to Justice is my thing ..

attractaub

Groundhog day/Call to arms as Government tries to slip/railroad another major decision!This time a major #MarinePlan activities & uses, without adequate measures to ensure areas important to &

Sinead O'Carroll

SineadOCarroll

Well! That was quite the 24-ish hours. We don’t quite know the full ramifications it all yet but it feels important to remember and document everything. So… a thread: 7pm

Liam Thornton

LTlaw_

The system of #directprovision is twenty years old today. #directprovision didn't always exist, Ireland didn't always institutionalise asylum applicants https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2685035 The @ExploringDP project make

Quercuspetr

Q_petr

1. @whittledaway and @think_or_swim are very possibly the two commentators on environmental affairs in Ireland for whom I have the greatest respect.I have a question for them. It is not

Lucy Michael #BlackLivesMatter #EndDirectProvision

drlucymichael

Oonagh Buckley of @DeptJusticeIRL now defending the definition of 'household' including non family members in Direct Provision in the Dáil Committee on #Covid19, and says it was based on HSE