Results 3,021-3,040 of 9,823 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader should withdraw his allegation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Cathaoirleach cannot allow the defamatory allegation which has been made to stand.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader referred to a conflict of interests.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Leader should repeat his allegation outside the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: It is not a worse accusation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: We are talking here about an allegation. The Cathaoirleach should oblige the Leader to withdrawn the allegation he made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: What about the allegation? The Cathaoirleach does not need any guidelines to rule on that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: On a point of order and as the Cathaoirleach rightly stated, we amended Standing Orders to cover the perception of bias. Those Standing Orders do not, however, cover the Leader of the House making an off-the-cuff allegation about one Member. In fact, I am of the view that the Leader has poisoned the banking inquiry in the context of the defamatory allegation he made. It is the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The allegation he made has nothing to do with the Standing Orders relating to the perception of bias.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The only person who breached those Standing Orders this morning was the Leader of the House. The Cathaoirleach should ask him as a matter of course to withdraw the allegations that he made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Leader withdraw the allegation?
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Companies Bill 2012 is the longest piece of legislation ever to be proposed by a Government. It is important legislation and my party welcomes that Second Stage will take place today. On Committee Stage, I will look for an assurance that there will not be a guillotine or delay, and perhaps the Leader would look at some way to regulate the debate on Committee Stage. My party does not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I am sure the Leader will not delay it unnecessarily.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Yes.
- Seanad: Suspension of Standing Orders: Motion (10 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I move: "That Standing Orders for today's sitting be suspended." I want to move a suspension of Standing Orders under Standing Order 159. A short time ago in the Dáil, the Taoiseach stated that in order for terms of reference to be adopted and a mandate to be given to the banking inquiry, the Government needed to have a majority on it and that the matter was now being considered by the...
- Seanad: Suspension of Standing Orders: Motion (11 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Senators van Turnhout and Mac Conghail control the balance in this division as well.
- Seanad: Public Service Management (Transparency of Boards) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: The Minister of State's speech is quite balanced except for the last paragraph where the Government and the Civil Service need to get with the programme. The Minister of State said, "While the Government will not be proceeding with this Bill". With all due respect to the Government, it is a matter for the Seanad and Senator Feargal Quinn as to whether the Bill is proceeded with. The...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: That is why the Taoiseach stated he needed a majority.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Kehoe demanded that the meeting in question should take place and no one else.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Thomas Byrne: How many others were here last Wednesday?