Results 121-140 of 1,114,139 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:John Dolan OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Barry Cowen OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Richard Bruton6 OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Thomas Byrne OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Duncan Smith) in 'Committee meetings'
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: I totally agree.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: That might not be until the new year, unless the Senator has a bit of information-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: It is still coming; I totally agree with the Senator.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: I imagine every one of us in this room has had someone belonging to us-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: -----in the circumstances in question. We are baby-sitting a dog at the minute for a niece of my wife. She is gone for 18 months. We think she intends to come back, but we are stuck with the dog. On what the committee can do, we could contact a Minister and try to put on pressure. Everybody here, and most people we talk to, agree with the petitioners that there are appropriate systems...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: At that stage, you will have decided whether you are staying or coming home.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: There is correspondence back from the Department that has been sent to the petitioners. We will not be able to move anything forward until we get correspondence back-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: That is up to the Government parties, not Opposition parties.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: All right.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: When somebody is knocking on the petitioners doors, they should ask the questions.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: I am just looking at some of the correspondence here that I had myself. There are plans to trial Internet voting in Bulgaria. Trials are taking place in Sweden and at local and regional level in Wales. Estonia is the only member state that has fully implemented Internet voting but it has been abandoned in France and the Netherlands, and in Germany, voting machines have been established in...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: They are between six or seven different countries.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: If the witnesses get the correspondence back, then the secretariat can start getting that kind of information for them, and see what kind of system is out there that suits the Irish-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Once that screen comes on you are live.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: They are all at home now looking at you on screen.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Have members any other issues?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Do Ms McLoughlin or Ms Nolan wish to say anything else?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: The witnesses should email back the correspondence that has been sent to them.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Then we can keep the process moving for as long as we are here.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Any correspondence that comes back may shunt it down a different route of getting what the witnesses are requesting. The quicker we get it back, the quicker the lads can start working on it.