Results 3,021-3,040 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: We removed it in 1997 when the previous Government had brought it in a year or two earlier and we will remove it again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am trying to keep the Leader on the straight and narrow.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Broken promises.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Senator Bacik should give it to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Like other Senators, I want to make reference to the negotiations on a replacement for the Croke Park agreement. It strikes me that a couple of the building blocks are missing. I encourage the Minister to take action to address the significant cost of the public service. As someone who worked in management for most of my life and often negotiated with unions, it strikes me that if one does...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Who did the ploughing?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Senators should read the back of the Sunday Independent.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: The Government is not dealing with it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I will take up the point made by Senator Hayden. I, along with others from all sides of the House, regret that the mobility allowance is being terminated. I am sure we all have constituents who will be deprived as a result. Many of these people are in the autumn years of their life and some live alone. The allowance is a prerequisite for any reasonable quality of life for these people. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Senator Norris is ignorantly interrupting, as he normally does.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am asking the Leader, in view of this intemperate situation, to ask the Minister for Health to come to the House to tell us when the findings of the report into the death of that lady will be announced to the House. I hope choreography is not at play here with regard to publishing the report at the same time as the heads of the Bill, which I suspect is what the Minister is about.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: When the vote is made on this issue in the next few months, we will find out who is pro-abortion and who is not. That will be the acid test.
- Seanad: Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I presume the discussion will resume next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I welcome Mr. Colm O'Gorman and Ms Iverna McGowan. I wish to follow up Deputy Crowe's point on the Palestinian refugee camps. Recently I and several colleagues visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. I must say we found the conditions appalling. We did not expect it to be wonderful, but we were shocked by what we saw. People received only one meal a day and between 12 and 16 people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I asked a specific question on the breach of that woman's child's right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: On the selective-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: Does Mr. O'Gorman agree that selecting a child for abortion on the basis of that child having a disability is wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am just asking for Amnesty International's position. I accept that Mr. O'Gorman does not want to answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: It is an important human rights issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)
Jim Walsh: I accept that he is not required to answer.