Results 21-40 of 190 for speaker:Mark Dearey

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: Combined with this is the fact that NAMA will begin to take bad debts from the banks. I look forward to the Minister's comments in terms of making credit flow again for the sake of all of the economy. The coming together of these two key factors - stability in costs and the availability of credit - is a significant intersection today.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: One cannot have one without the other.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: Senator Buttimer is hyperventilating.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: Senator O'Toole's initial comments were an honest appraisal of the apportioning of blame in this regard. Members on all sides of the House and people across the political spectrum generally have had a role to play in landing us where we find ourselves today.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: I will explain why in one second.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: I will have a question for the Leader. It is a grim day, but I take exception to the notion that, with others, I am protecting insiders at the expense-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: It is not what we are doing.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: That is where the Senator is coming from. This is all about hunting. It has been a seriously difficult decision to arrive at and to receive any level of support for what is being proposed, but it is the most cost-effective option before us. I have yet to hear an option being given by Fine Gael that would be less costly, although I would look forward to hearing it. I am seeking a debate on...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: It would have gone through.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: I will not withdraw it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Mark Dearey: By way of example, if the plan had been allowed to go through, there would have been further lending of further bad development proposals and God knows how much extra NAMA and recapitalisation would be costing us now. There is a public dimension to this. There is culpability, perhaps not on the part of the Government but on the part of council members of all Opposition parties. I, for one,...

Seanad: Insurance Industry: Statements (1 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: I wish to outline a couple of the critical contexts in which this is happening. I will also address the substantial question of the authority of the Financial Regulator to do what it has done. I will also consider the best way of giving Quinn Insurance a fighting chance of emerging intact from the situation if faces now that this action has been taken. The primary context to which I refer...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: It has been an interesting hour and a quarter, with good ideas coming from all sides, two of which concerned action rather than debate and which I want to pick out, in particular. I support the calls for action on the Boucher payment which I found deeply disappointing and which demonstrated a breathtaking level of arrogance. We all have our responses to the various revelations about the...

Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: I welcome the Minister. I thank the Irish Family Planning Association for its briefing. I found it extraordinarily helpful over recent days when I was preparing to make my contribution, which I am happy to make on behalf of the Green Party. I support the Bill, as amended, from the Labour Party. When we dealt with the Prohibition of Depleted Uranium Weapons Bill some weeks ago I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: I welcome Mr. Boucher's forgoing of his pension top-up and his decision to work beyond the age of 55. Senator Hannigan is right to recognise that it is an example of some leadership, albeit belated. At the same time, however, the door is still open in terms of how these types of bonuses may be given in the future. For that reason I reiterate Senator Boyle's call the other day to the effect...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: The improved standards and regulations that will follow the passing of the Bill will benefit the entire sector.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: Will the Leader allocate time to discuss the issue of planning reform? There has been an extraordinary situation in Dundalk in the last few days. Hundreds of people have discovered they have made formal objections without their knowledge, with the accompanying €20 payment to the planning authority, to a very large leisure resort being built beside the dog racing stadium which many Members...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: We are talking about a sum of between €4,000 and €6,000 having been paid. It is important that we examine this issue in the context of a discussion on planning reform.

Seanad: Death of President of Poland: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: I join with the Leader and my colleagues in expressing my sorrow and the sorrow of Green Party Members at the death of President Kaczynski, his wife and the 94 others who died at the plane crash in Smolensk on 10 April. Poland has lost its President and all nations grieve when they lose their president. Our thoughts are with the Polish people as they come to terms with this tragedy, one of...

Seanad: Fines Bill 2009: Second Stage. (22 Apr 2010)

Mark Dearey: It has been interesting to listen to the contributions of Senators in the legal profession speak about their experience of how the system works downstream of the law. I wish to make a brief contribution on my experience as a councillor in recent times. The Bill will be welcomed the length and breadth of Ireland by councillors who continually have to deal with very distressed individuals...