Results 281-300 of 704 for speaker:John Kelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I welcome the Minister and what he is seeking to do in trying to revive rural areas. I feel as if I am living two separate lives. I come to Dublin for three or four days a week and the place is hopping. When I go home, the complete opposite in the case. It is all doom and gloom. There is absolutely nothing happening in smaller towns. Obviously many people have emigrated, although...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: During the good times, Dawn Meats was located in our town and the previous Government gave it a grant of €17 million to do up another plant in Ballyhaunis in County Mayo, and once it did that, it closed the factory in Ballaghaderreen. At the time, not much was said because those who had been in the factory could find work building houses. Everyone had another job to go to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: Last night I watched "Prime Time" which explored the issue of wind energy and wind farm development, an issue in which I am deeply interested and which has been raised ad nauseam in this House by myself and Senator Whelan. Those Senators who watched that programme will have only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of how wind farm developments affect people's lives. I was disappointed with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I support the call by Senator Harte for a debate in this House on the issue of poverty. We all know that poverty comes in all shapes and forms. It is evident every morning in the number of people lying in sleeping bags in doorways, the number of people on social welfare in poverty and the often forgotten middle-income earners who are now the new poor, including prison officers, gardaÃ,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: Last week I called for a debate in this House on wind energy and wind farm developments. Subsequently, the Sunday newspapers published interviews with the heavy hitters in the Irish wind energy sector. They claimed that living close to wind turbines, which have increased in size from 54 m initially to 100 m and then to 120 m, does not have any ramifications. They are now 185 m high and...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: It will not take four minutes. I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address this Adjournment matter. It relates to fire services and the new document launched recently entitled Keeping Communities Safe. I am at a loss to understand how by implementing this new document the Government can keep communities safer because the document proposes to cut the number of firemen attending...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: Reducing the number of fire fighters who respond to calls from nine to five is not going to improve safety. Two years ago an incident occurred in Limerick in which one fire tender responded and a Garda and a fireman lost their lives on the road because health and safety requirements were not being fully observed. We should be selling the property tax to people on the basis that we are...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: These points have to be taken into account.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: It will not take four minutes. I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address this Adjournment matter. It relates to fire services and the new document launched recently entitled Keeping Communities Safe. I am at a loss to understand how by implementing this new document the Government can keep communities safer because the document proposes to cut the number of firemen attending...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: Reducing the number of fire fighters who respond to calls from nine to five is not going to improve safety. Two years ago an incident occurred in Limerick in which one fire tender responded and a Garda and a fireman lost their lives on the road because health and safety requirements were not being fully observed. We should be selling the property tax to people on the basis that we are...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: These points have to be taken into account.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I support my colleague, Senator John Whelan, in his call for proper engagement with the 24-7 Frontline Services Alliance. I said last week in the House that front-line workers and middle-income earners had nothing left to give in further talks. As Senator Diarmuid Wilson said, morale in the Garda SÃochána is at an all-time low. I know that in some Garda stations in this city gardaà do...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I support my colleague, Senator John Whelan, in his call for proper engagement with the 24-7 Frontline Services Alliance. I said last week in the House that front-line workers and middle-income earners had nothing left to give in further talks. As Senator Diarmuid Wilson said, morale in the Garda SÃochána is at an all-time low. I know that in some Garda stations in this city gardaà do...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, but rather than delay the Order of Business today, I will seek to raise an issue on the Adjournment of the House.
- Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: May I share my three minutes with Senator Landy?
- Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: One and a half and one and a half.
- Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I will stick to the point, as I have so little time. Like other Senators, we would like to discuss many social welfare issues, but I will make a few brief points. First, there should be no change to the FIS. It is working well and is achieving what it set out to do. Second, I more or less stated on budget day what Ms Mangan and the advisory group have stated, that is, there should be some...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fines Act 2010 (27 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I would like to know the reason the Fines Act 2010 has not been implemented. It is good legislation which provides for the payment of fines by instalment, the appointment of a receiver in respect of default of payment of fines, the imposition of a community service order in respect of a person who fails to pay a fine, and publication of a list of defaulters, and which gives recognition to...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fines Act 2010 (27 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I appreciate the response that was written for the Minister of State, who is delivering it on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality. With that answer, the Minister of State said everything I said in my presentation. When will it be implemented? It is not being implemented. The Minister for Justice and Equality needs to be told it does not wash if the response is that the...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)
John Kelly: I thank Senator Leyden for pre-empting my Adjournment debate. His comments had some merit in terms of-----