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- Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Does he agree that the imposition of the cuts is wrong when we are re-employing people who have gone out on one and a half times their pay-----
- Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: They are actually coming back with their pension and their salaries. That is unfair in the current climate.
- Seanad: Croke Park Agreement: Statements (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I disagreed with the Croke Park agreement from the day it was introduced. Fine Gael agreed with me at the time and now it disagrees with me.
- Seanad: Job Creation (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I would like to endorse everything that Senator Cullinane has said. The south east lags behind in a range of areas, including medical provisions. The unemployment situation is dire. Waterford is the capital of the region and we have seen significant unemployment rise there in recent years, with very badly targeted approaches to resolve it. Wexford continues to be a real unemployment black...
- Seanad: University Rankings (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Following on from the previous discussion, the key to solving the problem of unemployment is undoubtedly education. However, there is a need to accelerate this, because there is a generation of people who cannot wait around. Their contributions, their talents and their lives will be lost as a consequence of not being able to obtain employment. That motivated me to table this matter on the...
- Seanad: University Rankings (9 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I welcome much of what the Minister of State has said. I realise the rankings are based on four pillars of research, including teaching, employability and internationalisation. Clearly, an element of subjectivity is involved. The first paragraph and other parts of the Minister's response could be interpreted as having a level of complacency. We whistle past the graveyard at our peril....
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I think he picked it up from the Fine Gael school of opposition.
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (14 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. This matter is the need for the Minister for Health to clarify the person, persons or bodies that recommended the nomination of each of the 14 members of the recently announced expert group to examine the options to deal with the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the A, B and C v. Ireland case, other than the Medical Council and An Bord Altranais, and the...
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (14 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I thank the Minister for his response, which is comprehensive. I welcome the fact that the biographies will be published. Could those biographies include any prior comments on this sensitive topic, if there are any on the record, which would display the disposition of members of the expert group regarding their being pro-abortion?
- Seanad: Departmental Bodies (14 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I accept that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I second the proposal of an amendment to the Order of Business. On a related theme, what has motivated this campaign is the aggressive secularism expressed by some members of the Labour Party? It is interesting that the president of the British National Secular Society recently called upon the former Fine Gael candidate, Mr. John Colgan, to withdraw his complaint to the Garda SÃochána...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: It is well established in the media anyway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: A former Fine Gael candidate-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: -----made a complaint which the president of the British National Secular Society said was utterly ridiculous and that it should be withdrawn-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Yes, I ask the Leader for a debate on these issues. I ask that the Minister for Justice and Equality be invited to attend. What is happening as a consequence is that Garda time is being frivolously wasted. The Garda SÃochána has sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions. This is a terrible abuse of time-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: -----considering the number of crimes and organised criminal gangs in Dublin. People are being murdered almost daily and the time of the Garda and the DPP is being wasted on issues where people of a particular ideological bent are using and abusing the system.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I am not complaining about the DPP, and you well know it, a Chathaoirligh. I am complaining about the people who are using the system to promote their own minority ideological views and wasting public services that are charged with much more serious responsibilities than these issues. I ask that we would have a debate in the House about the management of Garda time and the management of...
- Seanad: Diplomatic Representation (21 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtà an Teach. This issue has been amplified in this House and elsewhere over a period of time. I note that the recent communication from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade showed a direct saving from closing the Vatican Embassy of â¬400,000 and another saving from transferring the Italian Embassy. I recognise that in the current...
- Seanad: Diplomatic Representation (21 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: I have two points. I welcome the last sentence of the Minister of State's response. This issue was brought to the attention of the Tánaiste's predecessor, Deputy Micheál Martin, when he was Minister for Foreign Affairs and he rejected the concept of closure. The overall budget for the Department is â¬150 million. The saving was quite small, therefore. If the Department considers...
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)
Jim Walsh: Why?