Results 2,601-2,620 of 7,765 for speaker:Maurice Cummins
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: The Senator is talking about cruelty to animals if he is talking about breeding bitches at four months. Nobody in the country who is breeding dogs would breed a dog at four months of age.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: This is absolutely crazy. It shows a disregard for and a complete lack of knowledge about the breeding of dogs. As we said on Committee Stage, to suggest that a person would breed a dog at four months and that they be included under this Bill, really sums up what the Green Party knows about any animal and certainly about the breeding cycle of greyhounds, in particular.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: If it is not four months, why did the Minister not change it?
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I understand the Minister is prepared to extend it to six months. I do not believe six months is sufficient. Again, no breeder I know would breed a bitch at six months. It would be cruel to start breeding bitches at six months of age. The two years I have suggested might be excessive. We had intended to make it one year. If the Minister were prepared to set the period at one year, it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I had the pleasure yesterday of being present at the reopening of Waterford Crystal which has given a renewed a sense of belief and spirit in the people of Waterford. While the Government was prepared to see this iconic brand name relocate outside the country, the city manager and the city council put their money where their mouths were, made investments and negotiated with the holding...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: What about the McCarthy report?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: They are not even poodles.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: We need more of them to visit more often.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: That is not what the Minister said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: That is the week we took off.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I second Senator Fitzgerald's amendment to the Order of Business. Two years ago we were promised we would have a designated unit for cystic fibrosis sufferers in St. Vincent's Hospital. It is a disgrace that building has not yet commenced. Cystic fibrosis sufferers must still queue in accident and emergency units and are placed in wards where they are at risk of infection. Statistics show...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: The Senator might make the headlines.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: The outgoing governor of Mountjoy Prison, Mr. John Lonergan, is on record as saying his one regret is that he did not refuse to accept new prisoners when Mountjoy Prison was full. The only solution the Government has to overcrowding is to release prisoners early. That seems to be what it is doing. Up to one in four prisoners was released prematurely in the past year or so. This has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Who is lobbying the Greens?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: They are 2% in the polls. Unrepresentative is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Spin.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)
Maurice Cummins: The Green Party would close down the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Like Senator O'Donovan.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)
Maurice Cummins: What about Deputies Devins, Scanlon and Behan?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Regarding the Poolbeg matter, reports suggest that the Attorney General has advised there is no good reason not to grant the licence. Why is the Minister ignoring the Attorney General's advice? Before the last general election, Fianna Fáil fanned the flames in rural Ireland by suggesting a vote for Fine Gael would be a vote for the Green Party in government. It is ironic that we now have...