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Seanad: Schools Building Projects (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The matter I have placed on the Adjournment is the need for the Minister for Education and Science to publish a complete list of all school projects in the building programme together with indicative times for completion. The predecessor of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, published lists of all school buildings, which included priority ratings and indicative...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire I want to mention the issue regarding the state of school buildings raised again today by Senator O'Toole. I am glad that it has been selected as a matter for the Adjournment this week. It is appalling that parents, pupils and teachers have been left in a situation where they do not know when their schools will be refurbished or updated. There is a question now of political...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I understand and I agree with the ruling, although I am not happy with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not challenging the ruling of the Chair. What I am saying is——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am raising a different point. I am asking the Leader to amend the Order of Business, taking the text——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Leader can do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking that. I am asking the Leader himself not to make this party political, amend the Order of Business and allow for a non-debated motion——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Leader can amend his own Order of Business, without it being on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not moving that motion. I am asking the Leader of the House to have a debate, and do not want this issue to be party political. I am asking him——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ——because I asked for this on Tuesday, and it was rejected. This should not become a party political issue. The Leader has indicated he wants to be in America when the Taoiseach addresses the Joint Houses of Congress. If he turns his back on the 40,000 undocumented Irish, he should not be there. Let us have the debate. Let him do what Members of the Oireachtas on all sides want,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Close the Dáil bar.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille seo, atá curtha chun tosaigh ag Páirtí an Lucht Oibre. I welcome the Bill proposed by the Labour Party which comes some weeks after Sinn Féin and the Labour Party tabled a Private Members' motion on agency workers in the Dáil. While I welcome the Bill, it is a pity it has been left to the Opposition to introduce legislation that is worthy and necessary....

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an mBille Airgeadais 2008. Níl dabht ar bith ann nach bhfuil eacnamaíocht na tíre seo chomh láidir is a bhí sé sna blianta atá thart. Dá bhrí sin, is am oiriúnach é seo chun an díospóireacht seo a bheith againn. I welcome the opportunity to speak about the Finance Bill. There is no doubt that we have entered a time of economic...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I point out to Senator Walsh that many fine republicans who were scholars of Trinity contributed to the creation of this State.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Next Monday millions of people will celebrate their Irishness not only in Ireland but throughout the world. There has been a debate about Ministers attending various countries. While it is right they should attend, we should not have a carte blanche approach to sending Ministers, Deputies and Senators to every corner of the world. We should weigh up any decision to ensure State money is...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Some people have been deported in recent years and others are at risk of being deported as we speak. Those emigrants have the courage to come out and attend meetings of the ILIR lobby group. They have had the courage to come out and march in Washington in the knowledge that they could be deported in the next minute. This House should have the same courage and pass a motion in support of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I called for a joint party motion on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: We should be doing everything in our power to help them.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom cur leis an méid a dúirt an Seanadóir Ó Murchú mar gheall ar úsáid na Gaeilge sa Seanad. Tá dian-imní ar dhaoine nach gheobhaidh siad an bolscaireacht sna meáin-cumarsáide atá tuillte acu má labhraíonn siad an Ghaeilge. D'iarr mé ar Cheannaire an tSeanaid díospóireacht a eagrú le linn seachtain na Gaeilge, nó coicís na Gaeilge mar atá againn anois. Tá a...