Results 22,281-22,300 of 26,350 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It was Senator Paul Coghlan who might need mediation. Is he okay? The Leader might mediate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Mulranny.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator O'Donnell tells us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: This is the same Senator who says she finds it useful not to be in the Chamber.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Certainly not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister would have to check Senator O'Donnell's diary to see when she will bother turning up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: In time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank Senator O'Donnell for that incisive comment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I would like Senator O'Donnell to withdraw that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Like Senator Kelly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Was the Senator here? How does she know? It was not ordered.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Senator to tell me when a Bill was published in just three months. She is talking through her hat and she knows it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator is talking without showing manners or experience of what happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I trust him impeccably, but that is not the question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I know that he is excellent at doing so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Leader know when we will have any legislation to deal with in this House? My party has eight or nine Bills on the Order Paper. If the Leader affords us time we will move them forward.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I know, but the way it is at the moment I would have loads of time. I could talk all day on Thursday because we are not here at all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I understand that. I am trying to make a point about the business we have not been conducting, not just here in the Seanad but in the Dáil, since we came back in January. I remind Members when they return to their parliamentary parties to tell their own Whips and the Chief Whip, Deputy Kehoe, that one Bill since January in the Seanad and the Dail is not the way to do business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I will conclude on this, and I thank the Cathaoirleach for his forbearance. The Leader has been trying as best he can to ensure work is done here in the Seanad. In June and July of this year we will be inundated with legislation that will not be scrutinised properly. That is where mistakes are made. I ask the Leader to bring my deep concern with the way business is being scheduled back to...