Results 22,761-22,780 of 26,350 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I am.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I have confined myself to the Bill but I stated a follow-on effect. Let us not come in here-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I know the Senator does not like hearing the truth.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: All I am asking the Senators to do, particularly our Labour Party colleagues opposite, who are apparently champions of the vulnerable and the needy, is to look at what they have done and what they are going to do today.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Then leave.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Get up and leave.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not care whether the Senator leaves or not.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: These are the facts. What the Government Senators are voting on today will impact on people who need the State's support. All of their promises and stances made while in opposition mean nothing and we have further proof today that they mean nothing. During the debate the Minister gave a commitment to revisit some of these areas and to examine activation measures. She has done so and I...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: They were left to enjoy-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I will not take an economics lesson from Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Not true.
- Seanad: Passenger Name Record Data: Referral to Joint Committee (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: On a general point, following on from a question from me earlier in the week-----
- Seanad: Passenger Name Record Data: Referral to Joint Committee (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: -----I put the Leas-Cathaoirleach on notice, in respect of any of these motions coming back from committee, that we will seek debates on all of them.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: On the motion itself, in fairness-----
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It has not been agreed.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It has not been agreed. We have not agreed it.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I want to ask a question because Senator Mark Daly asked a specific question of the Leader. Senator Ivana Bacik jumped in so we did not get the answer from the Leader. He asked that a commitment be given that the minutes of the scrutiny of any of these motions be circulated to members so that we can decide. Members can see for themselves the lack of scrutiny that takes place at joint...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I would rather put this on the record of the House. That is why I do not want to have to raise this issue at a meeting of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. I want to have it raised here in the House. I understand the Leader has limited resources in his office. Through the Leas-Chathaoirleach I ask that the Seanad Office take on that role to circulate to each of the Senators the...