Committee to consider petitions on planning, taxi fares, FOI legislation and equality budgeting

28 April 2015

The petitions scheduled for consideration tomorrow include:

• [Petition No. P00062/12] Enda Kenny and the Irish Government: Introduce Equality Budgeting (Dr Clara Fischer)    
• [Petition No. P00015/13] Extending the FOI Acts to include the Data Protection Commissioner and the Financial Services Ombudsman (Niall Kelly)[
• Petition No. P00024/13] Recruitment Policy within RTE (Kevin Sharkey)    
• [Petition No. P00012/14] Call for sworn inquiry into the appointment of 2 senior planning inspectors to the Board of An Bord Pléanala (Jim Connolly)    
• [Petition No. P00022/14] Need for provision to be made for the compensation of victims of uninsured aircraft operators or other third parties suffering personal injury or loss as a result of air accidents where there is no insurance policy or the insurance policy has been repudiated (John Dunphy)
• [Petition No. P00031/14] Restore Self Builds in Ireland (Amanda Gallagher)    
• [Petition No. P00008/15] Retain tariff C for taxi journeys (James Waldron)    

Committee Chairman Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD says: “The Oireachtas petitions system is a direct channel for individual citizens and groups across Ireland to influence the parliamentary agenda. Tomorrow, we will have an opportunity to consider a wide range of petitions from members of the public in relation to public policy concerns, including equality budgeting, the extension of Freedom of Information provisions and taxi fare bands.

“Creating a petition is simple and the process has been designed to be open, user-friendly and accessible to all. 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.”

Get involved and make a petition.

The meeting takes place tomorrow Wednesday 29 April in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 at 4pm.

Public proceedings, which are anticipated to commence at 4:30 pm, 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
Noel Harrington, Fine Gael
Michael Healy-Rae, Independent
Seamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil
Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil
Pádraig MacLochlainn (Chairman), Sinn Féin
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