Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad Éireann — 2024-11-07 ============================================================ Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel I will be very brief because I do not wish to delay the Minister. The Moorhead report is very close to my heart and to those of my colleagues. On councillors' pensions, there was to be a review after the local elections in May to put in place a plan for councillors in order that they would be remunerated in the proper way. I am curious to hear the Minister's thoughts about putting a plan in process to ensure that hardworking councillors are adequately taken care of. Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central A few moments ago, I thought I had made my final contribution in this Seanad. Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel We have proved the Minister wrong. We love proving him wrong. Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central The Senator has proved me wrong. God knows what the afternoon could yet bring. I was involved with the Moorhead report and with the various decisions we made on councillors' expenses and recognition for the very hard work they do. I will have to come back to the Senator separately on the status of the review of councillors' pensions. I am sure the matter is being dealt with by the Department of housing and local government, which has not yet engaged with me on it. I imagine it will not be doing so in the coming days. It will fall to the Ministers of the next Government to deal with this matter. I will find out the status of it and ensure the Senator is furnished with information on it. Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel I thank the Minister. Pat Casey (CC), Labour Panel When is it proposed to take Report Stage? Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel Now. Pat Casey (CC), Labour Panel Is that agreed? Agreed. Pat Casey (CC), Labour Panel When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage? Aidan Davitt (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel Now. Pat Casey (CC), Labour Panel Is that agreed? Agreed. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2024-11-07/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:27+00:00 Sitting date: 2024-11-07