Results 3,701-3,720 of 9,823 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I propose an amendment that the Minister for Justice and Equality come to this House to clarify the situation regarding crime, justice and policing in light of the events in recent days. I raise the issue of the Slane bypass in County Meath. The Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who I acknowledge met me before Christmas about the Slane bypass - the Leader arranged that and I was thankful to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We are trying to make sure you do your job.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The resources are available to prevent it happening in the first place.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Back to the 1990s again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We resourced the Prison Service to make sure dangerous men would not be allowed to escape.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: A dangerous man escaped-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Yes it is, because this is too urgent to leave until next week.
- Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I have a point of order. I wonder whether we could postpone Final Stage until the Minister has a draft of the regulation he proposed. We have been fobbed off, not by this Minister but by others, in the House many times. It happened most recently during the debate on the Irish Water Bill when the Minister, Deputy Kelly, said he would accept changes and listen to the Opposition.
- Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That is the democracy in which we live.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I raise the important issue of repossessions that are happening around the country. There is a huge number of repossession cases, thanks mainly to the enactment of the 2013 conveyancing Bill. It was very unfortunate legislation which I was happy to vote against. As it in place, I want to make sure it will work in some way and give some relief to those who face repossession, particularly of...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am angry, not with the Minister of State, Deputy Humphreys, but the Minister for Justice and Equality. The idea that the excuse for county registrars handing out repossession orders and kicking people out of their homes is that there are too many cases and if we got judges involved, the system would not be able to cope. That is effectively what the Minister of State has said - the system...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: This Government brought in the law allowing repossession.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I was working on this issue before the Minister of State was ever in these Houses.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I wrote a report on this in 2009, before the Minister of State was ever heard of.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I move: That Seanad Éireann: noting: -the deplorable overcrowding being regularly experienced in hospital emergency departments; -the record number of patients waiting on trolleys; -the further delays in scheduled hospital treatments that will result from such overcrowding; and -the failure of the Government and the Health Service Executive, HSE, to adequately prepare for a...
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I gave several examples of the tricks ---
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I gave the examples.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That is lazy analysis.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: What about Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital?
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The INMO is saying the situation tonight is unprecedented in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.