Are there too many Dail Committees

[john scott]

Apparently there will be 23 Dail committes. Each must have a chairperson, vice chairperson and a convenor. I've just heard on RTE that Bertie has appointed the Chairs. Mary O'Rourke got one. I'm sure this must delight young FF TDs. No wonder Jim Glennon resigned. No place for Ned O'Keeffe. I think Bertie doesn't like him.

Nearly all FF TDs will now have extra money in addition to their TD's salary. It seems a bit like the honours system in the UK. Those new jobs should keep the troops from plotting.
By the way, does anyone know what a Convenor does? Does he/she just text the members to tell them that a meeting has been arranged. Money for old rope. We don't need 20 Junior Ministers. (Mary Harney said once we need only about two.) I think she was in Opposition at the time. We are lucky that deValera put into the Constitution that the Cabinet should have just 15 members.

[seamasdefaoite]

source anyone, to see who got what, Davids not on the ball today, I thought it would be up on the main page

[qtman]

Apparently there will be 23 Dail committes. Each must have a chairperson, vice chairperson and a convenor. I've just heard on RTE that Bertie has appointed the Chairs. Mary O'Rourke got one. I'm sure this must delight young FF TDs. No wonder Jim Glennon resigned. No place for Ned O'Keeffe. I think Bertie doesn't like him.

Nearly all FF TDs will now have extra money in addition to their TD's salary. It seems a bit like the honours system in the UK. Those new jobs should keep the troops from plotting.
By the way, does anyone know what a Convenor does? Does he/she just text the members to tell them that a meeting has been arranged. Money for old rope. We don't need 20 Junior Ministers. (Mary Harney said once we need only about two.) I think she was in Opposition at the time. We are lucky that deValera put into the Constitution that the Cabinet should have just 15 members.

If the committees accepted amendments to legislation they would have a point. As they don't, they don't.

[peanuts]

source anyone, to see who got what, Davids not on the ball today, I thought it would be up on the main page

Foreign Affairs
Michael Woods - Chair
Rory O'Hanlon - Vice Chair

European Affairs
Timmy Dooley - Vice chair

Justice Equality Law Reform
Peter Power - Chair
 
Finance
Michael Finneran - Chair
Martin Mansergh - Vice chair

Chairperson of Committee of Members Interests and Chairperson of the Working Group of Committee Chairs
Noel O'Flynn - Chair
 
Agriculture
Johnny Brady - Chair
Tom McEllistrim - Vice Chair

Education and Science
Paul Gogarty - Chair
 

Arts Sports Tourism
M.J Nolan - Chair
Michael Kennedy - Vice Chair

Communications
John Cregan - Chair
Peter Kelly - Vice Chair

Enterprise Trade and Employment
Cyprian Brady - Vice Chair

Environment
Sean Fleming - Chair
 
Health and Children
John Moloney - Chair
 

Social and Family
Charlie O'Connor - Vice Chair

Transport
Frank Fahey - Chair
 

Public Accounts
Brendan Kenneally - Vice Chair

Joint Administrative Committee
Barry Andrews - Chair

Joint Committee on Constitution
Sean Ardagh - Chair
 

Joint Committee on Good Friday Agreement
Noel Treacy - Chair
Eamon Scanlon - Vice-Chair

Joint Committee on Children
Mary O'Rourke - Chair
 
Joint Committee on Economic and Regulatory Affairs
Michael Moynihan - Chair
Ciaran Cuffe - Vice Chair

Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Scrutiny
Dara Calleary - Vice Chair

Joint Committee on EU Scrutiny
Sean Connick - Vice Chair

British Irish Inter Parliamentary
Niall Blaney - Chair
Sean O'Fearghaill - Vice Chair

Oireachtas Commission
Michael Mulcahy, Cecilia Keaveney, Séamus Kirk, Jim Walsh
 
Deputy Chief Whip
John Curran
 

Hope that is of some help!!

I see Naughty Ned O'Keeffe and Dr Lurve himself Jim McDaid have been left out!

[ergo]

too many committees. most of them will be just talking shops

[coc]

Hope that is of some help!!

Maith thú peanuts. Just what I was looking for.

[Kerrygold]

Tom McEllistrim Vice Chair of Agriculutre!!!

I think he made about 2 minutes of contribution on that committee over the last 5 years.

[stretchneil]

That's just the Govt positions, right?

What about PAC, and the other positions taken up by opposition members. Has it been released anywhere on the Oireachtas website yet?

[aodh_rua]

Interesting choice for the British Irish Inter Parliamentary committee.

British Irish Inter Parliamentary
Niall Blaney - Chair
Sean O'Fearghaill - Vice Chair

We know Deputy Blaney's background, and there's a story in Kildare Town that Sean O'Fearghail's response to the Anglo-Irish agreement was to go around the town saying there'd be no RUC on the streets of Kildare.

Still times change......

[PatMcL]

Any idea how much extra a committee chairperson/vice chairperson gets on top of their TD's salary?