Results 3,761-3,780 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: The Senator is misleading the House.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Would it be possible for the clerk to organise a large bowl of tranquilisers for Senator Mansergh?
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Perhaps that would not be enough.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Mr. Haughey implemented that report when he returned to Government, after a series of U-turns.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Todd Andrews did something similar to the Harcourt Street line.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: It has not happened; that is the problem.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: I second the amendment to the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, on his second visit to the House. When the Government announced he was to become a Minister of State, his appointment was universally welcomed on all sides of the House, such is his standing in both Houses. I am glad Senator Mansergh referred to the airport at Knock. One of the most positive...
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: It was rather churlish of Senator Mansergh not to refer to the Deputy in passing. As Senator John Paul Phelan has said, much of the new national development plan is very positive in its general scheme of projections for what it plans to achieve in the next seven years in the areas of regional development, infrastructure and particularly in the development of public transport, etc. However,...
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Senator Mansergh should speak to some of his backbench colleagues because they tell me this constantly.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: The Government is in this dilemma having fired its two magic bullets between the national development plan and the budget because it is utterly incompetent at developing and implementing a plan that it produced. That is why people are moving away from it. The Government lacks a sense of responsibility. The people who waste money are promoted in key Departments. That would not happen in...
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: I know this hurts Senator Mansergh. A golden opportunity for regional and national planning was missed in spatial development and decentralisation over the past ten years. If we are going to create new hubs of economic activity away from the east coast, thereby creating better regional development, it is essential that the Government must select a few areas and concentrate development there...
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Many economic consultants in Dublin have said that this plan is based on the tax receipts from the property market continuing into the future. That will not happen. No one in the Department of Finance and no serious economic consultancy believes that will continue. The large tax returns, many of which are driven by the property and construction sector, will not last. It seems inevitable...
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to the House and commend the officials from the Office of the Attorney General who have dedicated themselves to this initiative over the past several years. The Minister of State has previously come to this House on a similar mission of obliterating non-applicable historic legislation. I find myself in the extraordinary and historic...
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: There would be a smell of sulphur in the air.
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: It is not done yet.
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: How many hundreds of years ago was that?
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: The Senator would love to have done it.
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: There is an election in the offing.
- Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)
Brian Hayes: Some things never change.