6 May 2014, 16:59
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions will tomorrow afternoon consider another batch of public petitions received.
6 May 2014
The petitions are entitled:
- [Petition No. P00010/13] Failure of the State to provide a framework for rectification of errors made by the banking system specifically in relation to indiscriminate over-lending otherwise known as reckless lending (Mr. Pat Smyth)
- [Petition No. P00022/13] Request for Cork County Council to take charge of the maintenance of the estates, roads and parks in the surrounding area (Ms Annmarie Crowley)
- [Petition No. P00007/14] Leylandii Cyprus Trees (Ms Lara Henry)
- [Petition No. P00009/14] The Legalisation of Cannabis use in Ireland (Mr Aaron Davey)
Chairman of the Committee Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD says: “Our Committee looks forward to carefully considering petitions received from members of the public on a range of issues, including policy relating to past banking system failures, a request to a County Council to take charge of maintenance of estates, the issue of overhanging leylandii trees in a neighbourhood and the legalisation of cannabis.”
“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 7 May in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 at 4 pm. It will commence in private session and is expected to revert to public session at 4:45 pm. Public proceedings can be viewed online here.
Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
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Committee Membership
Deputies:
Richard Boyd-Barrett, Independent
Charles Flanagan, Fine Gael
Noel Harrington, Fine Gael
Michael Healy-Rae, Independent
Seamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil
Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil
Pádraig MacLochlainn (Chairman), Sinn Fein
Helen McEntee, Fine Gael
Michelle Mulherin, Fine Gael
Derek Nolan (Vice-Chair), Labour
Patrick O'Donovan, Fine Gael
Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Sinn Féin
Sean Kenny, Labour
John Halligan, Independent
Jack Wall, Labour
Senators:
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, Sinn Féin
Jimmy Harte, Labour
Tony Mulcahy, Fine Gael
Susan O’Keeffe, Labour
Ned O'Sullivan, Fianna Fáil