Results 3,741-3,760 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: He has had the final meeting twice before.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: It sounds as if the Senator includes the universities but nobody else.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, every Independent Senator on these benches for the past 20 years has been in favour of implementing the 1979 referendum result. I understand Senator Regan would not have misled the House deliberately but I would like him to withdraw that comment. It is factually incorrect. We tabled a Bill and also supported a Fine Gael Bill which was presented at the time by Senator...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, I have just head someone state the House is not sitting next week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, this is a question for the Cathaoirleach. This is the first I have heard of such a proposal. Is this the way to do business?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I am glad the Government has taken on board the points Senator MacSharry and I have been making here in recent weeks about the importance of getting the social partners around the table in Government Buildings. It is important to recognise what is going on. I know that Members on this and the opposite side of the House will be disappointed by talk of strike action and agitation, etc. but I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: In acknowledging the presence of Tony Kett's family and friends here, I apologise for my rudeness in not being here for the beginning of these tributes to him. It is one of those things that happens in the life of a public representative, but it reflects what I want to say. No one more than the family understands the impact of public representation on family life and leisure time, which...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I listened in recent days as the Minister for Education and Science turned statistics on their heads, getting away with murder in the process. It is important to set the record straight. This time last year there were no unemployed teachers in the State and the only way schools could secure substitute cover was by seeking the services of retired teachers in their areas. It was then that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: They should be paying 90% if fair was fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Is the Minister coming into the House?
- Seanad: Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2009: Second Stage. (28 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I compliment Senator Ross on introducing this legislation. The Senator approached me some months ago outlining his concern about this area of work. He put his office working on researching what we might do about it and I did the same. We found a Bill that had been introduced in the other House. We said that we could not really use that legislation because it was a Green Party Bill. We...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The acting leader of Fine Gael raised a valid point, that there should be a debate on this scenario of extraordinary industrial action by public service unions because there is, as he quite correctly put it, another point of view on this. It would be very helpful, even to the Government, to have this discussion for the simple reason that those working in the public sector, whether they be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: -----and destroying the miners' union.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The Senator should wait until he is in power.
- Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Business Plan: Statements (29 Oct 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh. I begin by saying "ditto" to the points that have just been made by Senator MacSharry. I am sure the Minister of State is as aware as we are that this is an issue of grave concern to people. Even though it is different from NAMA, in the people's minds both issues are being discussed together in that they are saying we are doing everything...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joe O'Toole: It is interesting to note the European Union's prognosis for the next couple of years. It indicates that, whereas there will be no growth in Ireland again next year, the rate of growth in the economy in the following year will be greater than 2%, faster than anywhere else in Europe. I make this point because as talks continue between the social partners and the Government, it is very...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joe O'Toole: We should sit down and work our way through it. Cuts must be made. However, we should listen to the trade union movement, ordinary people, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and others who state we cannot look to the social welfare budget. Those of us in the public sector will have to take more pain than others. However, the process must also be seen to be fair. If we can enter a social...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The question asked by a number of people recently is how we square the circle between the social partners and the Government. The Taoiseach and Deputy Bruton made some interesting comments over the past 24 hours in terms of showing that solutions can always be found if people are committed. The Taoiseach has obviously convinced the people with whom he is negotiating that â¬4 billion has to...