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SOCIAL PROTECTION MINISTER Leo Varadkar has said he can understand why some TDs might be reluctant to sit on the Joint Oireachtas Committee tasked with debating the Citizen’s Assembly final report.
While most of the other political parties have named who will sit on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, only two members – Kate O’Connell and Catherine Noone have been confirmed for Fine Gael.
It’s understood that if no one from the party steps forward to sit on the committee, the Taoiseach may resort to appointing TDs and senators to the committee.
Varadkar told reporters yesterday that he hadn’t heard of any difficulties, but added:
I can understand certainly why TDs might be reluctant to serve on a committee that is a very sensitive issue. Some people on both sides have very extreme views on it, so I can understand why some TDs might feel they will come under pressure or receive abuse.
He added that he is confident that Fine Gael will be able to fill the seats on the committee.
Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are to allow a free vote to party members on the issue.
Recommendations
The Citizens’ Assembly recommended that the Oireachtas should legislate for abortion and allow abortion without restriction in Ireland.
Voters are expected to be asked whether they support the findings of the Citizen’s Assembly findings in a referendum, and the committee is now being set up to examine how to proceed.
Committee members
The all-party committee of 20 members due to debate the recommendations is to be established shortly and will propose legislative changes by autumn.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said this week that he wants to see the committee established in a either this week or the next.
Fianna Fáil have named their four TDs for the committee – Billy Kelleher, Lisa Chambers, James Browne and Anne Rabbitte. Senator Ned O’Sullivan is also expected to sit on the committee.
Brid Smith and Ruth Coppinger from Solidarity-PBP will be on the committee on a rotational-basis, while Louise O’Reilly and Jonathan O’Brien will sit on the committee, for Sinn Fein.
Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan, Independent TD Mattie McGrath and Clare Daly will also join the committee. It’s understood other members in the mix include Independent Rónán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins.
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Can we have a list of names of the ones in Dublin?
They are all on the FSAI website.
Do they publish all the reports positive ones and bad ones ? Any link
How about a list please so we can avoid them
I’m going to Belfast for chips. According to the map they’re the bees knees.
Mentioning cork in the subheading and not Dublin is very misleading – the author easily dismisses Dublins number 1 spot due to population but not Cork.
Big city small problems
Aye. Dublin has bigger problems than just the most takeaways closing. Like open gang warfare, near daily shootings and a massive drugs problem.
There is 8 counties not mentioned in that list. Are we to assume everything was hunky dorey in those counties or is it the case the health inspectors in those counties are not doing their job properly.
There’s no food outlets in Leitrim. 4 pubs, a Spar, a petrol station and a church. That’s it.
So far in 2017 on the Fsai site tbese have been closed…. Express Pizza (take away), 6 Lord Edward Street, Limerick Punjab Pantry (take away), 39 Richmond Street South, Dublin 2 Synergy Subs Ltd t/a Subway (restaurant/café), Mellview House, M1 Retail Park, Drogheda, Louth Jalapeno Mexican Cuisine Ltd (restaurant/café), 46 Drumcondra Road Lower, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 Culleton’s Fish & Chips (restaurant/café), Main Street, Bansha, Tipperary Hot Spot (take away), Parnell Street, Limerick Polonez (retailer), 20 Moore Street, Dublin 1 Pacinos Restaurant, 18 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2 Beachview Tandoori (take away), Strand Road, Laytown, Meath Kavanaghs Fine Foods Cork Ltd (service sector) A Chef Kebab Foodstall, At Daltons Pub car park, Fuerty, Roscommon Day to Day (retailer), 54 Georges Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Palak Restaurant, High Street, Tuam, Galway Ali Baba (restaurant/café), Bank Place, Rathkeale, Limerick T/A I&A Organic Gardening and Catering (food processor), 21 Shandon Way, Shandon, Cork Auckley Ltd., The Palace (public house), 17 Ludlow Street, Navan, Meath Largo Foods (manufacturer), Kilbrew, Ashboune, Meath
And not one in Sligo!
Ah ya but we have the Wild Atlantic Way… all ye have is Hurling ha ha!
@Larry Doyle: The inspectors name was Kenneth and they completed their mission. Bad egg I’d say!!
Environmental Health Officers do a great job and follow things through.
I wish they could enforce a public notice on the front of the premises like in the U.K. A post on here mentioned some law in California which was even better but I can’t recall it.
Not surprised about The Punjab Pantry.. I was driving down Richmond Street yesterday and i kid you not it is like something out of Damascus. The dirt and smell OMG is like something i have never seen. FILTH. I can only imagine the restaurants/takeaways. Rolled the windows down and quickly rolled them back up. The hum in the air i can still smell it.
If the names of the places are already in the public domain, Why not publish them. This article is as good as useless if it doesn’t. I’m no wiser than I was before when it comes to deciding where not to eat. Sorry to be a moan.
No naming and shaming?
Having lived in Roscommon I can believe it.
I’d love to see a closure per capita rate – if anyone has the time
Name and shame please
Best chipper in the country was poison paddy’s in Blackrock village cork , when horse meet was meet and we still gave a few Bob for the black baby’s
Why not name and shame the offenders? Telling us in which counties they’re located is a pointless and tells us NOTHING.
Cleanest chipper I have come across recently is Whartons Fish and Chips in Bantry town in County Cork.
Is that yourself?
name and shame!
What about Moore Street, Dublin?
Were in cork are they
Why not name and shame the offenders? We need to know WHO they are, not just where they are so we can avoid eating at these places. The information is useless otherwise ….
What was the kip in Wicklow called ? Or Andreas
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