Results 6,801-6,820 of 9,827 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Cathaoirleach ask the Leader to withdrawn the allegation?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader made a serious allegation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: He said that Senator MacSharry was biased in the context of the banking inquiry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Even if he had €1 million outside the House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Cathaoirleach ask the Leader to withdraw the allegation he made? He would not allow me to make such an allegation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader should withdraw his allegation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Cathaoirleach cannot allow the defamatory allegation which has been made to stand.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader referred to a conflict of interests.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader should repeat his allegation outside the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: It is not a worse accusation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: We are talking here about an allegation. The Cathaoirleach should oblige the Leader to withdrawn the allegation he made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: What about the allegation? The Cathaoirleach does not need any guidelines to rule on that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: On a point of order and as the Cathaoirleach rightly stated, we amended Standing Orders to cover the perception of bias. Those Standing Orders do not, however, cover the Leader of the House making an off-the-cuff allegation about one Member. In fact, I am of the view that the Leader has poisoned the banking inquiry in the context of the defamatory allegation he made. It is the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The allegation he made has nothing to do with the Standing Orders relating to the perception of bias.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I congratulate Senator MacSharry and Senator Barrett on their appointment by the Committee of Selection last night. I presume the Clerk of the Seanad has notified the clerk of the banking inquiry of the appointments by the Seanad. Senator Bradford is correct that there is no requirement for the Seanad to approve or not approve this decision as that job has been done. There will be a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: It is already done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: On a point of order, there are very specific statutory procedures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader has been pressed by Deputy Paul Kehoe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Senator was handing them out
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The person to whom you gave the discretionary medical card.