Oireachtas Committee to resume discussions on public petitions received

The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions will tomorrow afternoon consider another batch of public petitions received.

5 November 2013

The petitions relate to:  

• 28/2012: The campaign to save Kilmainham Mill (The Kilmainham and Inchicore Heritage Group)
• 33/2012: The application of the Freedom of Information Acts and the Ombudsman Acts to the Central Bank of Ireland (Cearbhaill O'Dalaigh)
• 52/2012: Alleged theft, fraud and illegal sale of the assets of dissolved companies vested in the Minister for Finance (David Garvey)
• 78/2012: Closure of Carpentry/Joinery courses at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (Pat Brady)

Chairman of the Committee Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD says:  “Our Committee looks forward to carefully considering a range of petitions received from members of the public and a heritage organisation.  Committee Members continue to encourage any individual citizen or group with concerns around the delivery of public services to make a petition, which will be carefully considered by the Committee. There is a standard form which we request all petitioners to complete, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie and can be completed and submitted online, emailed or sent by post.”

The meeting takes place tomorrow Wednesday 6 November in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 at 4 pm. The meeting will commence in private session, before reverting to public session at 4:45 pm. Public proceedings can be viewed online via this link.

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Committee Membership
Deputies: Richard Boyd Barrett, Michael Conaghan, Alan Farrell, Charles Flanagan, Noel Harrington, Michael Healy-Rae, Seamus Kirk, Michael Kitt, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Chair), Michael McCarthy, Helen McEntee, Michelle Mulherin, Derek Nolan (Vice-Chair), Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Mick Wallace
Senators: Jimmy Harte, Tony Mulcahy, Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and Susan O’Keeffe