Results 2,541-2,560 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Civil Partnership Bill 2004: Motion (11 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: I move: That, in pursuance of Standing Order No. 132 of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business, the Civil Partnership Bill 2004, which had reached Second Stage prior to the Seanad General Election, July 2007, be restored to the Order Paper.
- Seanad: Burma: Motion (11 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Tá a lán rudaà ráite sa dÃospóireacht seo, rudaà atá tábhachtach. An rud is tábhachtaà ar fad ná go bhfuil dÃospóireacht againn sa Teach seo. Dúirt Seanadóirà Daly agus à Murchú cé chomh tábhachtach agus atá sé go mbeadh daoine sna tÃortha beaga ag cur a gcuid machnamh isteach in ábhair thábhachtacha mar seo. There is a long tradition of recognition of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: I wish to be associated with the congratulations expressed to Anne Enright. It was the first time in many years that the Booker Prize was not televised live. I thought last night's RTE programme "The View" would have changed its format to show the ceremony but unfortunately it did not. It is certainly an honour to Archbishop Seán Brady to be elevated to Cardinal. Some years ago, I recall...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: My apologies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Sorry â he was a decent man either way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Will the Leader initiate a debate with the Minister for Education and Science on third level grants? We receive numerous queries on this matter and a new issue is that recently retired people are deprived of grants for their student children because they were prudent enough to have saved for an SSIA. The Government addition to the SSIA is taken into consideration and people are deprived of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: That must be the first time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: I subscribe to the view that further debate is needed on this issue. As Senator Fitzgerald has noted, we have previously debated aspects of it but there is one aspect we have not addressed, which is that one of the killings occurred in the Border area. The business of laundering diesel and so on has become a major industry and turf wars take place there all the time. The Good Friday...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: In terms of clarification, was the Cathaoirleach aware of the intention of Aer Lingus to cut the routes between Shannon and Heathrow? It appears that everybody in the world knew what was going on except the people who should have been told about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: The Cathaoirleach will be aware I raise regularly in this House issues relating to the regions, especially the west. I do not understand what is going on in regard to Shannon Airport. This is the most political of all airports and the one that has taken more time than other airport, yet senior personnel in various Departments found it unnecessary to tell the political leadership, and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Why west Limerick?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: It is only right, proper and sensitive that the House debate the health services. While I support the proposal, it does not need to be taken before No. 1. After 7 p.m. may be an appropriate time, as people could get organised. I am loath to get involved in a blame game, but we must examine the matter seriously. Benchmarks should be put in place in terms of what we expect from the health...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Face up to it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: They gave a distinctly different impression, however.
- Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: The Minister of State should just write it a cheque.
- Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, I understand Senator White still has five minutes, because it was agreed speakers would have 15 minutes.
- Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: I wish to share my time with Senators Bacik and Mullen.
- Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (7 Nov 2007)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and wish him well. The first call I received this morning was from someone in his constituency involved in the child care area who is rightly very upset with this legislation. It is not a question of what is in the Minister of State's proposal, but of what is missing from it. That is where the problem lies. There is an economic strategy to...