Results 3,701-3,720 of 9,293 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will fool no hill farmers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Rather than actually honour the promises made to hill farmers? They will not forget it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A divided party that cannot back the motion will fool nobody.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We look forward to the vote.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Nonsense.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A new centre.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael stitch-up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Stitch-up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We want a debate with the Minister today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There will be a wider debate next week-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----because Fianna Fáil is divided on the issue.
- Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I apologise for missing the Minister of State's speech earlier. I was in the agriculture committee dealing with legislation. We must always remind ourselves, particularly as public representatives in these Houses, that Ireland is the only country in the world that has a population today lower than it was in the 1800s. That is our history and our reality. It is a history of emigration. In...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: How would the Senator define apartheid if that is not apartheid?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Senator's comment is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to raise a number of issues. The first one is the issue of the gorse fires. In Donegal there have been 50 separate fires throughout the county. Not far from my own home area of Buncrana a fire has been burning in the hills for the last four days. The fire rescue team attending the fire have had very little sleep. I spoke to one of the members of that team today and he reckons the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am moving an amendment that the motion be taken without debate at the end of the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is seconded by Senator Ó Clochartaigh.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the groups for their presentations. I will direct my first question to the council. It is clear from its presentation that it has reached the conclusion that there is no future for the greyhound racing industry and it is beyond reform. I would like to tease that out. GRAI appears to be more measured in its outlook with respect to traceability and so on. Perhaps I am wrong but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What if a range of protections and assurances were built into the legislation? We make laws in this building all of the time. We measure the success of every law by the way that it is enforced. Ms Yourell has expressed her concern about whether suitable legislation can be enforced. Is there a way forward? She has indicated that her organisation is not opposed to the principle of dogs...