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Oireachtas Brief Newsletter §38 September 2012 | 
In this issue...
- Welcome to Oireachtas Brief, the information service for social justice NGOs and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. Oireachtas Brief is provided by The Wheel an... read the full article
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- The Seanad debated, on the first day of its return, a Labour Party motion on the Charities Act, 2007 (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 19th September 2012, 30-50). According to John Whelan (Lab, labour panel), who moved the motion, it was a false economy and... read the full article
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- The issue of Travellers as an ethnic minority was again raised in the Dail, with the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Kathleen Lynch, informing Gerry Adams (SF, Louth) that serious consideration was being given to such recog... read the full article
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- Derek Nolan (Lab, Galway W) raised the findings of the Irish Refugee Council report State-stanctioned child poverty and exclusion by Samantha Arnold (Dail Eireann, Debates, 19th September 2012, 61-5). A third of the 5,098 residents in dire... read the full article
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- The government introduced the 31st amendment to the constitution to define rights for children, polling to take place on 10th November (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th September 2012, 71-88; 26th September, 20-45, 77-114; 27th September, 28-120). In her ... read the full article
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- Fuel poverty and disconnections were raised in the course of two topical debates, one on fuel allowances (Dail Eireann, Debates, 20th September 2012, 70-72) and the second on ESB disconnections policy (25th September, 61-4). First, Aengus O Snodaigh ... read the full article
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- Personal assistance services were raised in the course of a topical debate in the Dail (Dail Eireann, Debates, 27th September 2012, 146-8). The Minister for Health, James Reilly, told Brian Stanley (SF, Laois Offaly) that he had instructed the Heal... read the full article
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- > Magdalen laundries: Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th September 2012, 88-108; 26th September, 114-141.... read the full article
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- The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, gave some further details of the new Child and Family Support Agency (Dail Eireann, Debates, 26th September 2012, 46-7; 59). It would have 4,000 staff and a budget of €590m, which wou... read the full article
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- Oireachtas committees Committee on Education & Social Protection Brendan Griffin to replace Aine Collins Jonathan O'Brien to replace Sean Crowe Jobs, Enterprise &... read the full article
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- Welcome to Oireachtas Brief, the information service for social justice NGOs and voluntary sector activists interested in issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Oireachtas. Oireachtas Brief is provided by The Wheel an... read the full article
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