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- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: It makes one feel a bit stupid and foolish, after all the effort we put into the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act and our demands that it be commenced, that it is suspended. Some of us travelled around the country to explain it to people. Not only has the Act not been commenced but the Minister for Education and Science displayed a cowardly attitude in coming into...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I could not agree more with Senator Fitzgerald's final comments. We have all received telephone calls from schools. This morning I spoke to a representative from a school in Kilrush who was in tears about how the school would deal with a child at the end of a peninsula. The school cannot see how a child who is very seriously disadvantaged can be helped without these classes. We will come...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: What are we doing? Are the people on these committees clear about what they are doing? They are walking into trouble. There must be a clear understanding about these issues. The regulation committee should be doing the tedious, painstaking work of examining auditing and governance structures, auditing stress tests, reporting procedures and responsibilities, and ethics arising from...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I agree with many of the points made by Senator Fitzgerald. As I said yesterday, I am totally frustrated because I do not understand the Government's strategy. The Government seems reluctant to do a fair deal with the social partners that could be accepted by the general population, even though it has an opportunity to do so. That possibility has been clearly rejected by the Government in...
- Seanad: National Insulation Programme: Motion (18 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I disagree fundamentally with Senator Boyle.
- Seanad: National Insulation Programme: Motion (18 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I find this to be an extraordinarily divisive motion. I can barely speak and hold my breath dealing with it because I am so angered. I have no problem with my colleague on the other side of the House who was not present, who joined this House only in 2007 and who can hold no responsibility for the things I will mention now. I am angered that Fianna Fáil would dare table a motion aimed at...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I raise the same issue. It must be addressed. We are facing strike action throughout the country after two and a half decades of being the country with the best record in Europe in terms of the lowest number of strikes per year, growing productivity in almost every year of the last 15 until 18 months ago and good industrial relations. That is all fragmenting in front of us. I cannot...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Name and shame.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: From what party are they?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I note the CPSU will engage in industrial action on Thursday which will mean there will be a picket at the gates of the House. Obviously, it will not prevent Members of the Oireachtas from conducting their business under the Constitution. However, Members of the Oireachtas should show solidarity with those people who oil the wheels of business in this House. I will certainly not pass the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: That is irresponsible. On the same issue, the names of some of the people involved were published in a weekend newspaper. I do not know whether the facts are correct in their regard, but if they are, I have a question to raise. One of the people mentioned is the owner of a company called Mount Carmel Medical Group. That company has received permission to build some of the hospitals to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: It is respect for the workers.
- Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Senator Buttimer could have been so lucky.
- Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: We are.
- Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire agus roimh an tuarascáil atá curtha thar bhráid an Tà ag an Seanadóir Doherty agus an choiste. Mar a dúirt an Seanadóir à Murchú, tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach go dtuigfimÃs go bhfuil obair tábhachtach á dhéanamh ag na coistà ar rudaà mar seo. Nuair a chuala mé iriseoir de shaghas éigin ar an raidió le déanaÃ, bhà ceist...
- Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Chun crÃochnú â leaving out three quarters of the speech I was going to make â is dócha gurb é infreastruchtúr ar nós bóithre agus leathanbhanda an rud is tábhachtaà domsa. Tá gá le leathanbhanda chun seans a thabhairt do dhaoine tionsclaÃocht agus fostaÃocht a chur chun cinn ina áiteanna dhúchais fhéin. Táimid ag brath ar sin, fiú amháin ó thaobh turasóireacht de....
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I want to pick up on an issue raised in the House previously and raised just now by Senator Fitzgerald, that is, the loss of teaching posts. When the cuts were announced weeks or months ago, I made the point it would cost 1,000 jobs. The Government side stated the figure would be between 200 and 300. I have analysed the list with the INTO and am absolutely certain it will be 1,000 jobs....
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.