Results 201-220 of 977 for speaker:John McGahon
- Seanad: Aviation Sector: Statements (21 Jun 2021)
John McGahon: The Senators have switched places. Senator Keogan has six minutes, followed by Senator Cassells.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)
John McGahon: In my first week of university nearly ten or 11 years ago, one of the first books I read was John Stewart Mill's On Liberty. He was a Liberal MP and Victorian political thinker.The main premise of his argument was he who knows only of his own side knows little of that. His main point was that for your argument to have any validity, it had to be tested in the court of public opinion against...
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: I thank the Senator. Let us be brief in order to allow people in. For the record, the Bill is not being guillotined today. The debate will adjourn at 6.30 p.m. and we will be coming straight back to it Monday morning.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: This is the second time for the Senator to speak and it is not relevant to the amendment. I ask him to conclude.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Yes.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 11, 12, 25, 26 and 32 are related. Amendment No. 12 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 11. Amendments Nos. 11, 12, 25, 26 and 32 may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 13 to 17, inclusive, 141 and 142 are related, amendments Nos. 14 to 17, inclusive, are logical alternatives to amendment No. 13, and, therefore, amendments Nos. 13 to 17, inclusive, 141 and 142 may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: I am on the same committee as Senator Pauline O'Reilly. We all have our own jobs and our own committees. I do not expect people who are not on that committee to be able to go to all those meetings and I do not think it is fair to say that they cannot talk about something because they did not go to the meetings. I would not expect people to be able to do that. However, I would expect...
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Let us just do it. It is all talk today.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Amendment No. 41 is in the names of Senators Bacik and Moynihan, who are not present.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 55 and 56 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 41. Amendments Nos. 41 to 53, inclusive, and amendments Nos. 55 and 56 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Senator Boyhan did that last Friday, with reference to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Senators.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: The Senator did that last week.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: The Senator cannot speak out of both sides of his mouth. He did exactly the same thing last week.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Next Friday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)
John McGahon: This is really good. I thank the delegates. It is great to see my friend Mr. David Maxwell, who is from Louth village. Mr. Maxwell and I are Fine Gael politicians from the Border area so we are an endangered species. It is great to see him. There are a couple of points I want to touch on, one being on natural infrastructure, particularly from Sligo to Lough Neagh. Where I am from in...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: It is not a case of calling for a debate or anything like that, but I wish to comment on the atrocious language that has been used by Members of the other House regarding some of the greatest atrocities that have been committed against mankind on the European Continent in the past 60 to 70 years. There were references to "Nazi Germany", "1930s Germany" and "the Weimar Republic". Other...
- Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the House. Before we commence, I remind the House that a Senator may only speak once on Report Stage except that the proposer of an amendment may reply to the discussion on the amendment. Also, on Report Stage, each amendment must be seconded. Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 2 and 22 to 24, inclusive, are related. Amendment No. 23 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 22. Amendments Nos. 2 and 22 to 24, inclusive, may be discussed together by agreement.