Results 3,481-3,500 of 4,908 for speaker:Diarmuid Wilson
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Obviously. I can see that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: What about the future?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Humphreys will have the opportunity-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: We will vote on it.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Very little consultation.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Thank you, Davy.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, to the House. I am speaking on this Bill on behalf of my colleague, Senator Swanick, who is unfortunately unable to be here this evening. It is great to see this Bill get to this Stage. It has passed all Stages in Dáil Éireann and was prioritised by the Joint Committee on Health. This demonstrates the appetite there is for...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: We reserve the right to introduce an amendment on Report Stage to this section of the Bill that would retain subsection 4(2) of the 2001 Act. The Bill currently proposes its deletion. This provides some degree of additional and more specific protection. The Department of Health raised concerns over the relevance of subsections 4(3) to 4(6) of section 3 of the Bill, given that they are...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: We will propose an amendment on Report Stage to this section of the Bill to include a separate stand-alone section setting out guiding principles to apply to children who are voluntarily admitted. The proposal in the Bill to include child-friendly guiding principles in section 25 of the 2001 Act currently only applies to involuntarily detained children. It is important that guiding...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: On Report Stage, we will submit an amendment to remove reference to "voluntary patient". We will also submit an amendment to include a separate stand-alone section to address consent provisions for people who are voluntarily admitted. Legally, consent provisions for people who are voluntarily admitted should be addressed in a separate section of the Act. Regarding the definition of "the...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I join colleagues in expressing my disappointment that the talks in the North have broken down somewhat unexpectedly. I have no doubt that the outline of an agreement had been agreed between the leadership of the DUP and that of Sinn Féin. Unfortunately, however, it appears that Arlene Foster was unable to get it through her party. We now have a weak British Prime Minister who is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: By doing that temporarily, they could put an end to Brexit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I ask Sinn Féin Senators to consider that proposal or to bring it to their party leadership in Belfast. I take this opportunity to wish Gerry Adams the best of health and happiness in his retirement. If this vacuum is created, I hope, for the sake of many communities in the North of Ireland, that he has not gone away.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Buttimer needs to go to Specsavers if he thinks that is the case.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: They would need more than Specsavers because it was not mentioned in the plan.
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: No wonder his grandson was able to drink soup with a fork.
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Senator for being brief. I call Senator O'Donnell.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: One would think that after 60 years in the House, Senator David Norris would-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: It feels like 60.