Results 25,101-25,120 of 26,565 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator will get me into trouble.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should speak for herself.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It did not take the Fine Gael spin doctors to get to Senator Coghlan. There has been some indoctrination.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Leader for taking on board the views of the leaders of the groups on the debate on the fiscal compact. I hope Members will take up the opportunity to attend the briefing meeting to be provided by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service in the week before the debate. I ask the Leader to consider extending the five minutes afforded to Senators on certain debates, if fewer...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Last December my party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, tabled an amendment to the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2011 to give the Financial Services Ombudsman the power to name financial institutions in breach of codes of conduct. Members will have seen the report for 2010 which states 7,200 complaints about financial institutions were made by...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is quality, not quantity that counts.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: As leader of a group, he is allowed.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: A Labour Party Lord Mayor.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Labour Party Lord Mayor, Councillor Montague, is on his bike.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator could have raised it yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: There was an entire debate on the issue yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: They were asleep.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I was a local councillor.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should stop. They passed the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: We published a Bill in the Dáil and it was voted down by the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Who are you talking about?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That includes the Northern Bank money so Deputy Cullinane should relax. That was £1 million, and all the money in the United States also.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Unrequited love.

Seanad: EU Fiscal Compact Treaty: Statements, Questions and Answers (Resumed) (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: She should be careful.

Seanad: Food Wastage: Motion (15 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Cuirim fáilte romhat, a Aire. I commend him on the work he has done since his appointment as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. On a personal level, I have been most impressed by his work in regard to fish quotas. His proactivity in that area has been felt very strongly in my constituency in north Dublin and along the east coast. I commend him on the work to date in that...