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Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you find it a useful resource for information on my work as Fine Gael TD for Galway West. The information on the website detailing my work in Galway and in Dáil Éireann is organised into categories set out in the issues tab on the menu bar. Information on Dáil work is also directly available from the menu bar with Parliamentary Questions listed here in chronological order. The video section contains clips of Dáil speeches & contributions made at Joint Oireachtas Committee meetings.

Galway City Outer Bypass

In April, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its ruling on the points of EU law for which our Supreme Court sought guidance. The EU Court found that the plans for the Bypass would if implemented constitute a negative impact on the integrity of a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). Since the Bypass will involve development in an SAC the EU Court ruled that the application should have been made under IROPI or Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest. Read more on this here.

Civil Registration (Amendment) (Domestic Registration of Death Records) Bill 2012

In November I published and introduced a bill in the Dáil entitled the Civil Registration (Amendment) (Domestic Registration of Death Records) Bill 2012. The bill is the culmination of research and consultation and seeks to amend the 2004 Civil Registration Act so that all deaths of resident or recently resident Irish people can be registered here in Ireland. If enacted it would provide peace of mind and closure for families and next-of-kin of those Irish people who die unexpectedly, often in tragic circumstances, while working or holidaying abroad as it would facilitate the registration and issuing of an Irish Certificate of Death to the family or next-of-kin. A copy of the bill and the explanatory memorandum is available here.

Clinics

Advice and information clinics are held regularly across the Constituency, details of which will be posted here and advertised in local newspapers. Appointments are also available for the Constituency Office on Monday, Fridays and Saturdays. Please phone 091 868 111 or email sean.kyne@oireachtas.ie

The Constitutional Convention – Coinbhinsiún ar an mBunreacht

The Constitional Convention has so far examined the following issues:

• - reducing the Presidential term of office to 5 years & aligning it with Local & European elections;
• - reducing the voting age to 17;
• - increasing the pariticiapation of women in politics;
• - providing for Marriage Equality.

The Convention will be examining the following issues over the coming months:

• - reviewing the Dáil electoral system;
• - giving citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in Presidential elections;
• - providing for marriage equality;
• - amending the clause on the role of women in the home;
• - encouraging greater participation by women in politics;
• - removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution and
• - recommending other relevant constitutional amendments.

The Convention comprises 100 citizens -

• - a chairperson, former Concern CEO, Tom Arnold;
• - 66 citizens broadly representing Irish society and selected randomly from the electoral register;
• - a representative from each of the parties at the Northern Irish Assembly;
• - members of the Oireachtas.

Videos from Sean Kyne’s contributions to recent Dáil Éireann debates.

Dáil Éireann

• Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill
• Social Welfare and Pensions Bill

Parliamentary Questions will be answered in the Dáil by:

Minister for Education and Skills on Tuesday

Minister for Social Protection on Wednesday

Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht on Thursday

Joint Oireachtas Committees

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs. Further information is available on the Committee’s homepage on the Oireachtas website.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Clinics

Advice and information clinics are held regularly across the Constituency, details of which will be posted here and advertised in local newspapers. Appointments are also available for the Constituency Office on Monday, Fridays and Saturdays. Please phone 091 868 111 or email sean.kyne@oireachtas.ie