Sentences with phrase «chamber of ministers»

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The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

Speaking to Premier before Thursday's debate, he said: «We want to bring to the floor of that chamber [at the UNHRC]- through our minister and through our Government officials -[information] that there are many people across the world who - because of their faith - are being persecuted.»

He said before the commencement of the inaugural session of the council, the ministers - designate would take their oaths of office in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa.

When police started investigating the links between peerages and donations to political parties, it looked like a scandal that might topple a prime minister and hasten wholesale reform of Parliament's upper chamber.

After a prime minister's questions dominated by Liam Fox, and a statement from the leader of the House all about Liam Fox, it came as something of a surprise to see the man himself bustling quietly into the Commons chamber.

Mention can be made of the Speaker of the 5th Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford - Addo, Chief Justice Georgina Wood, Electoral Commissioner Mrs Charlotte Osei, former CEO of the Ghana chamber of Mines Joyce Rosalind Aryee, and other women ministers such as Hon. Hannah Tetteh, Gloria Akuffo and others, also high commissioners and ambassadors including ambassador Mrs Mercy Yvonne Debrah - Karikari (now a cabinet secretary) amongst other great women.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

Former cabinet ministers have also tended to move into the upper chamber, although that has not always been the case; Jack Straw, who was cleared of breaching rules, concerning cash - for - access allegations, was not nominated for a peerage in 2016.

The prime minister said he was «extremely sorry» in a brief clip recorded inside Downing Street - away from the floor of the Commons chamber where he made the pledge to apologise three years ago.

The prime minister is demanding that Tory MPs support the reform plans to shore up the coalition as Clegg has made clear that introducing a «wholly or mainly elected upper chamber» remains a vital element of the agreement between the two parties.

«The prime minister, when he leaves this chamber, should look at the comments of the justice secretary,» Mr Miliband said.

David Cameron experienced few perils in his first prime minister's questions, after five years on the other side of the Commons chamber.

During Prime Minister's Questions on 13 July 2011, the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow told Loughton - following considerably loud cheers from the government benches and loud jeers from the opposition benches - that if he couldn't behave like an adult, then he ought to leave the chamber.

Continue reading «Felix Bungay: Radical constitutional reform should include an elected second chamber, a federal UK, a directly - elected Prime Minister and a separation of the executive from the legislature»»

Standing at the back of the chamber, Labour MPs Chris Evans and Toby Perkins - who stood down as shadow Armed Forces minister this morning - could be seen shouting «resign» in their leader's direction.

The Senate on Wednesday sermouned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal, and the Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyema, to appear before the upper chamber to explain the lopsidedness in the nomination list sent by the president.

Party funding would be reformed, the House of Lords replaced with an elected second chamber and the prime minister would lose his power to choose the date of the general election.

But with agreement looking difficult to achieve he has raised the threat of the «star chamber», in which resistant ministers would be dragged before a committee of other Cabinet ministers to explain themselves.

In a statement issued by his Chambers, Agbakoba, argued that on the basis of section 138 of the Constitution, the President should be barred from taking any paid employment or holding executive office of Minister of Petroleum Resources.

Oduah, a first timer at the hallowed chamber was a former minister of aviation who was eased out of office having gotten enmeshed in the controversy over the purchase of two bullet - proof BMW cars.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

They would scrap Trident, denuding Britain of its nuclear deterrent and sending future prime ministers naked into the conference chamber.

The self - serving nature of those opposed to change becomes even more insidious if one considers that some of our lordships may be in danger of losing their present position of privilege, whilst those in the lower chamber who still harbour aspirations towards preferment by some future prime minister, could have their hopes of elevation dashed by the changes currently being proposed.

We do not mean to speak ill of the dead, but the now late Prof Dora Akunyili, then Minister of Information had told Nigerians too that Jonathan had informed the Executive Council chamber then that there was a conversation with the «dead» president.

Although floor debates in the main Commons chamber — and the rowdy weekly showcase of Prime Minister's Question Time — are the dominant images of the UK Parliament, like any legislature the House of Commons also does a lot of detailed work holding the government to account.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said the decision of the lower chamber of the National Assembly to pass a vote of no confidence on him and his Minister of State, Abubakar Bawa - Bwari, is a draconian step.

The Minister who was initially hindered from entering the chamber upon been invited said the country is currently producing at 1.4 million barrels per day, as against its former production level of 2.2 million barrels.

Yesterday the British Chambers of Commerce hit out at ministers for not doing more to ensure airport expansion in the south - east of England.

This was one of the more boisterous prime minister's questions, but I couldn't concentrate on the hurricane raging around the Commons chamber.

Ben Bradshaw, a Labour former minister, said the size of the Labour rebellion had exceeded expectations and some MPs had made their mind up in the chamber.

Former Labour minister tells British Chambers of Commerce conference that leaving EU would erode ability to trade abroad

The swearing in of ministers - designate set to constitute President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet is currently underway at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa.

How come one Iyiola Omisore got elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from behind prison bars while standing trial for complicity in the murder of Uncle Bola Ige, the Cicero, then serving Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General?

I agree on the higher age limit (neccessary to ensure people with a decent amount of life experience of some sort get elected to a chamber that is supposed to be composed of experts), but is 100 people really enough to act as a check on 650 people in the Commons and a government of 100 + ministers?

In response, the prime minister is now seriously threatening to suspend the Lords or even flood it with new Conservative peers to swell the ranks of this already bloated and over-manned chamber.

The prime minister also proposed legislation to introduce a largely elected second chamber, but skirted around plans to make the attorney general independent of the government.

The came as a result lawmakers» outright rejection of admitting Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Ibe Kachikwu into the lower chamber.

The deputy prime minister published a plan last month to replace the Lords with a wholly — or 80 % — elected chamber of about 300 peers.

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

If ministers want to stop fruit rotting in the fields and care homes shutting down, the time to act is now, writes the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce Adam Marshall

In a move to shore up the position of the beleaguered Liberal Democrats, the cabinet will endorse the deputy prime minister's plans for the upper chamber to be overwhelmingly composed of elected members.

A Labour MP has been suspended from the Commons chamber for the rest of the sitting day after his «dodgy Dave» jibe over the prime minister's tax affairs.

John McFall, former head of the Treasury select committee, will also be entering the chamber, as will former Scotland first minister Jack McConnell.»

The minister is also expected to brief the upper chamber on how the ministry intended to ensure protection of the residents of mining host communities against lead poisoning and other hazards.

Golden's bill, which will be submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, is co-sponsored by Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous of Binghamton and Bronx Democrat Ruben Diaz Sr., a Pentecostal minister who has been the chamber's most vocal opponent of same - sex marriage.

Conservative sources were briefing over the past 24 hours that plans for Lords reform had been dropped after the prime minister concluded there was no way of getting an elected second chamber past his backbenchers in a form acceptable to his Liberal Democrat colleagues.

At least five cabinet ministers have joined the Tory revolt over House of Lords reform, amid growing fears that proposals for a largely elected second chamber could destroy the coalition.

Last year, the chief minister of the Delhi state likened the city to «a gas chamber.»

In the Senedd chamber Carwyn Jones said ministers still wanted to see a score of 500 in every subject in the Pisa tests by 2021.