Results 2,881-2,900 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps I can clarify the issue. The decision was made in 2009.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: The Department gave a commitment in 2012 and Ministers flatly refused to pay it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: One cannot blame that Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I was asking for the Leader's assistance. I will raise the issue again next week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I was just asking the Leader a question.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I move: That Seanad Éireann notes:- the worsening crisis in respect of mortgage arrears with over 94,000 residential mortgages in arrears for greater than 90 days and over 28,00 buy to let mortgages in arrears for the same period; - almost one in four family home mortgages and more than one in three buy to let mortgages are now either in arrears or have been restructured; - the...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I will go through that at the end.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: We published a Bill.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister of State's hands are full of pages of irony.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: We proposed a Bill. Should we be dragged by the nose?
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not have to agree with it but I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister of State for sitting in for in the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes. I also thank him for not reading out certain elements of the script he was given. Whoever prepared the speech was able to say that the Minister of State had sat here and listened with growing disbelief to my introduction of the motion. The person could not possibly...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps they know me better than I thought and believe everything I say is nonsense.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I am glad the Minister of State did not read the script. Either the official knows me very well or what was provided was a standard script. We will always disagree on particular political points. We can also talk all we like about history, although it is important in the context of learning from the mistakes of the past. I have probably used 30% of Fianna Fáil's Private Members'...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: What is the position on item No. 13 on the Order Paper, Civil Registration (Marriage Equality) Bill 2013, which was published in great haste during the Meath East by-election? Will the Deputy Leader inform the House when she will introduce the Bill in her name? I request a full debate next week on policing and Garda recruitment. Yesterday the Minister for Justice and Equality who is not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: No. We have another one on the way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator is half-supporting it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: With respect to all sides, we are not having a debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order, it is not appropriate to have a debate when the Deputy Leader is introducing her view on something and when no one else can respond. There are ways of having a proper debate in a respectful way-----