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Protected Disclosures Bill
[Speaking in the Seanad during Committee Stage] I do not for one second wish to imply that the Minister had anything to do with it, but in my early days in the country when the Minister, Deputy Howlin,...
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Statement regarding St. Vincent’s Hospital
[Speaking during Order of Business in the Seanad} I make this statement with somewhat of a heavy heart but I would like in the first instance to express my support for the Committee of Public Accounts...
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HSE hospital figures; Medical Cards; HSE threatening legal action
[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister for Health to attend the House today to address the issues that arose with respect...
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Whistleblowers – what protection do they have?
[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I am troubled by certain aspects of the emerging story of the intersection between the legislative branch that oversees the Garda and the various...
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Investigation into An Garda Síochána
[ speaking in the Seanad on Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion ….. ] I warmly welcome the Taoiseach to the House. The...
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Resignation of Minister Shatter and the treatment of whistleblowers
[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I acknowledge Deputy Shatter’s true reforming zeal, the technical expertise and the enthusiasm he brought to the reform process in the Department of...
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Culture of the public sector highlighted through its treatment of whistleblowers
[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] Link to video: http://media.heanet.ie/oireachtas/asx.php?Channel=Seanad&Date=20140527&StartTime=06:04:36.000&Duration=00:02:50.000 I wish...
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The accepting of my amendment re gagging clause for GPs providing free...
[Speaking during Committee Stage of the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill, on my amendment to remove a gagging clause on GPs. My amendment was voted through and will be part of the...
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Gagging Clause for GPs
[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I have a very specific and technical parliamentary request to make of the Leader. I seek clarification in the aftermath of the vote yesterday that...
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Varadkar must harness his aloofness, arrogance and self-regard to succeed
[As published in the Sunday Independent on Sunday July 13, 2014] ‘Varadkar is sufficiently unmindful of his master’s bidding to ignore attempts to transform the department into an office of the...
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