Results 201-220 of 1,451 for speaker:Michael Finucane

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Minister will have several more years to achieve something, provided the cracks emerging between various Ministers do not get bigger. I look forward to seeing his true colours.

Seanad: Crime Levels: Statements. (3 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Given the massive increase in crime across the various categories of offences, he cannot claim to have achieved much.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I have to pinch myself at times when I hear statements about affordable housing and land. Where has the Government been for the past six years? Speaking at the Irish Management Institute annual conference in Killarney, the Taoiseach suddenly decided to launch a new agenda and a new direction. There has probably been a conversion at this stage. I wish to make one brief point. We all welcome...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: —I wish to remind him to provide these physical resources because they have been referred to on many occasions, not only in this House but also in the Lower House. I wish that family a speedy recovery, but I fear they will bear the scars for many years. It is a deplorable and heinous crime.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: There is one exception.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Senator Leyden broke from the slips too quickly.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: The national disease surveillance board has published its report, some details of which are rather frightening. Some 73% of the heterosexual population infected with HIV come from sub-Saharan Africa. In that context, should we not be screening immigrants from those locations? It is important to do this in order to determine if medication is subsequently required. It is a frightening...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Senator Leyden went too quickly from the slips.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Senator Leyden will have to sponsor him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: On a point of order, there is a precedent for this because I recall moving a Bill in the Lower House that was accepted, in principle, by the Government. The Government then fine-tuned the Bill and implemented it as its own legislation—

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Leader said that the Government's attitude could change during the day and I believe that this should happen.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I know you are a modest man, a Chathaoirligh, but I wish to congratulate you on being appointed a trustee of the GAA. I will leave it at that. Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I do not want to see County Kerry having a monopoly on these positions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Certainly, I have.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I support what Senator Henry has said about the SARS epidemic and the fact that public health doctors are in dispute. The Minister for Finance has made it quite clear to the Minister for Health and Children that if he wants funding, it will have to come out of his own budget because the Department of Finance will not provide an extra allocation. If the dispute drags on, it will put the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: That is a nonsense.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Well over a year ago, on 31 January 2002, I raised in the Dáil the issue of decentralisation for Newcastle West, Kilrush and Listowel. At the time the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, indicated that he was not in a position to state when decentralisation would occur. In his Budget Statement of December 1999 he announced that he would embark upon a new and radical programme of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Can the Minister of State indicate when the famous announcement will be made?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Soon?

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Last night I was allowed to raise on the Adjournment the issue of decentralisation to Newcastle West, Kilrush and Listowel. In his final response the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, stated decentralisation would happen soon. It will happen shortly – at least that is what the Minister of State says – after a long, long wait.