SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Not the corporate donations. It is the donations in kind.
Róisín Shortall
Rhetoric & votes →On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 82 of 671 decisive votes (8 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
Party over time
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD | Social Democrats | 1,282 | 2020-02-20 – 2024-11-07 |
Membership spells on record: LAB 1992-11-25–1997-05-15 · LAB 1997-06-06–2002-04-25 · LAB 2002-05-17–2007-04-30 · LAB 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · LAB 2011-02-25–2012-09-26 · IND 2012-09-26–2015-07-15 · SD 2015-07-15–2016-03-09 · SD 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · SD 2020-02-08–2024-11-08
Record
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
What about the other aspects-----
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
-----in terms of the people who were employed?
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
I made the point last week that what the Minister is doing and the explanation he is providing for these various figures sound very much like reverse engineering to suit the rules. That is not the case in relation to donations that, as I have already said, are goods and services that have commercial value, which must be declared donations. The Minister seems to be suggesting these were not donations. Mr. Stone putting up the posters for the Minister, paying people to put up the posters and providing the vans were a…
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Is that correct?
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
No.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
The Minister is using expenses and donations-----
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
I am not talking-----
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
I ask the Ceann Comhairle to just bear with me for a couple of moments. I am not talking about the corporate donation. I am talking about the donations in kind that the Minister got with people being paid to put up his posters and for the provision of vans. The Minister last week said, as I understand it, that they were actually donations to the party, so how did the Minister-----
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
No. I am looking for an answer to this question.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
How did the Minister relay that information to the party that they were donations to the party?
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Did the Minister, as he was required to do, get an acknowledgement-----
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
-----of that donation? Under the guidelines the Minister is required to get an acknowledgement from the party if he is saying that the donations went to the party.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
The Minister is pleading ignorance.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
It is in the general election guidelines.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Did the Minister get an acknowledgement of that?
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
These are the guidelines for the election.
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage
I welcome what can only be described as long overdue legislation, which we in the Social Democrats are happy to support. This is an area very much in need of reform and tighter regulation. It is by no means a new issue. The first of four rounds of public consultation took place as far back as 2007. The first iteration of this Bill was published in 2009. It is frankly unacceptable that it has taken well over a decade for this legislation to reach the House. What was the hold-up? It is hard to understand when there i…
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Public Services Provision
I join others in congratulating the Minister on his new role. I wish him well and look forward to working with him. I also extend best wishes to the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, in her promotion. I hope she has a fruitful career in the Department of Finance. My question relates to choices that were made at budget time whereby a very substantial tax package benefited a small minority of taxpayers. A huge number of taxpayers did not get any benefit from it. That was a political choice the Government ma…
SD
2023-01-24 · Dail
Public Services Provision
I wish to ask the Minister about the repercussions of that.