Results 3,741-3,760 of 23,109 for speaker:Paddy Burke
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Healy Eames, allow Senator Boyle continue.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Healy Eames, please allow Senator Boyle continue.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Healy Eames, please allow Senator Boyle to continue.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Healy Eames cannot ignore the Chair.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (29 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (29 Jan 2009)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the opportunity to comment on this legislation. I am not sure whether I welcome the Bill. Nevertheless, it provides a good opportunity to remark upon our electoral system as it relates to general and local elections and how it operates. Everyone agrees in respect of the case that has been made for Leitrim. People do not fully appreciate the strength of county boundaries. Such...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (3 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Power, to the House and I am delighted to have the opportunity to say a few words on this Bill. My maiden speech in this House in 1993 was about the gas interconnector in Dundalk. At that time, I said I hoped the gas supply would be extended to the west and to County Mayo. I have seen where that has nearly come to fruition. The pipeline has been...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (3 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Report on European Union Scrutiny: Statements (3 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Would there be a racecourse near it?
- Seanad: Report on European Union Scrutiny: Statements (3 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Trevor Sargent, and wish him well. He is doing an excellent job with his portfolio. I am from the era when, if we worked in the sugar fields and got hungry, we lit a fire and cooked the rashers and sausages on the spade or the fork. When we went to the bog to cut turf, we also lit a fire to boil water for tea. When we went to football or hurling...
- Seanad: Industrial Development Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: As amendment No. 11 is consequential on amendment No. 9, amendments Nos. 9 and 11 may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed. Government amendment No. 9: In page 4, before section 5, to insert the following new section: "5.â(1) All property vesting in the Minister under section 19 of the Act of 1961 immediately before the commencement of this section shall, upon such...
- Seanad: Electoral Amendment Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: One minute remains to Senator O'Toole.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Ormonde without interruption.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Ormonde without interruption.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Physical Education Facilities (4 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Very well.
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: It is not a point of order. Senator O'Malley without interruption.
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator O'Malley without interruption.
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Paddy Burke: Senator Ross was going to be a Ministerââ