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TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has announced his 11 nominees to be appointed to the Seanad.
Martin was formally appointed Taoiseach na hÉireann by President Micheal D Higgins this afternoon.
His nominees include politicians from the three government parties; Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and The Green Party.
Regina Doherty, who was Minister for Social Protection in the last government will be the Leader of the Seanad.
The other nominees are:
The Seanad is set to meet at the Dublin Convention Centre, a temporary Dáil chamber which allows for social distancing, on Monday.
A number of TDs who lost their Dáil seats in February’s election secured Seanad seats in March, including former Fianna Fáil TDs Lisa Chambers and Malcolm Byrne.
The former government Chief Whip, Fine Gael’s Sean Kyne, was also elected at the time along with former Fine Gael county councillor John McGahon.
Martin also today announced his Cabinet ministers from across the three parties in Government – six from Fianna Fáil, six from Fine Gael and three from the Green Party.
- With reporting by Michelle Hennessy.
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Ironic that Googles company motto when founded was “don’t be evil”, but no matter how well intentioned any endeavor, eventually the owners sell out, shareholders take over and the faceless, no individual accountability means they will fu*k you over in any and every way they can imagine to get rich and when the gravy train ends and it all comes tumbling down the architects are long gone.
Data is the new oil, the most valuable commodity on the planet, with enough of it you can do virtually anything.
@Sean Fahey: that was a very long first sentence.
Won’t have to worry about them soon. What with the UK now out of the EU, GDPR doesn’t apply to them, so it’ll make sense for the likes of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc to relocate over there, where the UK government will welcome them with open arms and they won’t have Data Commissioners up their ar5e.
@MunsterPI: doesn’t matter where they are located, GDPR still applies in the country where it is implemented.
@DJ François: If they are in a jurisdiction outside of the EU they can tell the EU where to stick their €20m or 4% of global turnover award! Tech & internet companies can be located anywhere in the world to provide their services. If UK is smart, it will drop its Corporation tax to 12% or lower, hype up that GDPR no longer applies, if SF get near power in the Republic and follow through on their tax the multinationals promise, the tech giants will be out of here like butter off a hot knife. When you look at it with Johnson, Brexit and the left surge this general election is shaping up into, Ireland is facing a perfect storm regarding the multinationals we rely so much on.
Is this not just PR following the comment from Germany’s federal data commissioner reported yesterday? There seems to be more investigations started than complete. In fairness, it must be difficult conducting fair personal data processing investigations in these types of companies.
General Data Protection Regulations are a more significant threat to free speech than political correctness.
The onus is now on the person seeking information to prove that they have a right to access it, the authorities are using General Data Protection Regulations like a sword rather than a shield. A lot of information previously available to all is no longer accessible, making researchers work more awkward and expensive to carry out. We need a right to access information similar to that available to all citizens of the USA.
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