Results 3,841-3,860 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am trying to inform some of the Members and will conclude on this. Some €80 million was being spent in 2011. The Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, said on radio that the grant was actually being increased and that the criteria were not really being changed but being made more focused. That is absolute rubbish. The Government has halved the amount of money allocated to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: From what did the Government bring it down?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: What was it in 2010 and 2011?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I have them also and refer the Senator to the figures from 2010.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I absolutely dispute it. That is a lie, actually.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The figures from 2010 and 2011-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is the Senator's press office working in overdrive.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is rubbish. The Senator should go back one year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: What is the Senator trying to bring an end to now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should do it privately.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is because the local property tax is not going the local authorities.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: We will have to wait and see about that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government has suspended existing water and wastewater programmes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order, the proposed amendment was that one hour be taken from the time allocated for the debate on the Local Government Reform Bill 2013 to go towards a debate on Irish Water. That is why we are not supporting the amendment. The distinction is important; it was not just for a one hour debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am sure all of us will share the concern of the Minister for Justice and Equality about the fact that already this year there have been eight violent deaths in this country. That is a matter of great concern, and my sympathies and that of my group go to the families of those people who were brutally murdered. It points to an issue I have raised regularly with regard to resourcing of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Plus Senator Leyden.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Senator for all the work he did to secure that decision.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I mean that.