August 6th2010
Dan Boyle
THE Green Party has strongly rejected claims that future senior civil servants recruited from the private sector will be “second division” material. Labelling remarks from the Chairman of the Higher Public Servants Remuneration Committee Tony O’Brien as misguided and unhelpful, Green Party Chairman Dan Boyle said that the civil service would benefit from the ideas, energy and input of some new leaders recruited from outside the public sector.
Senator Boyle said, “Mr O’Brien’s comments are wide of the mark. There is no doubting the abilities and capabilities of some of our senior officials. But the idea that the civil service could not benefit from external expertise is blinkered.
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July 21st2010
Dan Boyle
GREEN Party Chairman Dan Boyle has said that change had not come quickly enough to the appointments systems in financial institutions.
Speaking this afternoon at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Donegal, the Green Party’s finance spokesman welcomed that the new Financial Regulator and Central Bank Governor were individuals from outside the “incestuous circle of Irish financial services,” but he said that the same could not be said of the financial institutions themselves.
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July 8th2010
Dan Boyle
GREEN Party Chairman Dan Boyle has said that legislation on Civil Partnerships, which enters its final stages in Seanad Éireann today, will help to define Irish society and was a significant leap forward. He also said that arguments in favour of a “conscience clause” to allow civil servants to opt out of facilitating civil partnerships, were in fact seeking to introduce a right to discriminate.
Speaking in the Seanad yesterday during a debate on Green Party legislation to introduce Civil Partnerships, Senator Boyle said that the Bill was a stepping stone stepping stone towards even greater equality and would help to remove the stigma on sexual repression, which, he said was not a natural Irish inclination.
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June 9th2010
Dan Boyle
GREEN Party Finance spokesperson Senator Dan Boyle welcomed the Government’s publication today of two reports into Ireland’s banking crisis, and said he looked forward to an open and public process to follow.
Reacting to the reports by Klaus Regling and Max Watson on the sources of Ireland’s banking crisis and by Professor Patrick Honohan on the performance of the functions of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator, Senator Boyle said: “Since our banking system went into meltdown requiring the intervention of the State and the injection of large sums of taxpayers’ money, the Green Party has sought that reports be conducted into the causes of the crisis, that a thorough and legitimate inquiry be held, and that this process be as open and public as possible.
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May 24th2010
Dan Boyle
OPENING the second and final day of the Green Economy Expo at Croke Park, Green Party Chair and finance spokesperson Senator Dan Boyle called for the establishment of a green bank as part of the restructuring of the Irish banking system that needs to occur.
Referring to the €100m loan fund that Irish banks are obliged to make available to green businesses as a result of recapitalisation by the State, Senator Boyle expressed disappointment that much of this facility has not been made available to draw down.
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