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Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: While I do not normally disagree with the Minister and normally follow his logic, that is totally illogical. Effectively, the Minister is stating that because the accounts of the company will come before the local authority, members somehow should not be directors of the board. It is the same situation with shareholders, in that a company might have many shareholders some of whom may well...

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I am afraid we must agree to disagree.

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I am not addressing them to the Minister.

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I did not say that.

Seanad: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I actually do not believe it is the right approach. There are people in these Houses who are directors of fairly important companies who have decisions to make in that regard and who make a contribution to those companies. I believe that if any Member who is a public representative in any capacity has the expertise, then this blanket exclusion of people in any sort of representative role is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Boko Haram Insurgency: Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Nigeria (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: Like other members, I welcome Mr. Iginla and thank him for attending. As has been said, others have not attended. In that regard, I acknowledge and compliment Deputy Quinn on the initiative he took, because it is on his initiative that Church in Chains produced this report. I join with him in being critical of those who have not attended, which is a pity. However, we should not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Boko Haram Insurgency: Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Nigeria (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: Before we adjourn, I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Church in Chains for responding to Deputy Quinn's suggestion. They gave us a very good report and I do hope that as a committee, in whatever time we have in the new year, we will endeavour to pursue the other countries and try to advance what is a very worthy cause, the persecution of our fellow Christians.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I join other Senators in wishing all the staff and Members of the House a very happy and holy Christmas and a successful new year. Hopefully, those who are contesting the elections will be back in the House afterwards. Could the Leader to convey to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the desirability of including the salary scales in all advertisements for public appointments in...

Seanad: Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: I have just come to make this comment. However belatedly, I welcome the Bill and, as others have done, I commend Deputy Willie Penrose on his initiative in pushing this issue. However, it is a sad reflection on this Administration that it has taken until the dying days of the current Oireachtas for it to be introduced. Many people in the House, particularly on this side, argued from the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: I commend a recent article on IrishCentral to the Leader and Members of this House on a topic near and dear to us. On this day, 13 January 1800, Daniel O'Connell made the first of many speeches opposing Ireland's union with Britain. It was his first ever speech and it was made in Dublin at a protest meeting against the union. As Members will be well aware, the introduction of that Act was...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: I am glad the Senator smiles when he says that.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: Of all the brainless decisions made by the Government in the past five years, the decision to establish Irish Water is top of the list. It exceeds all other bad decisions taken by the Government, many of which have impacted on the most vulnerable. There has been a total disregard of people who are vulnerable. The decision to establish Irish Water and the resultant imposition of water...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: The Senator is actually about to find out how bad a decision it was.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: They will be safe enough in the boat because there will not be any water to keep it afloat.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: I bet there were no Fine Gael lads-----

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: It was all fixed before then.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: We cannot go anywhere now.

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: Local government is now neutered.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: Could the Leader arrange for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to come to the House? It has been reported that the Government is refusing to follow the lead of many other countries which have declared that the barbaric treatment and murder of Christians in the Middle East is tantamount to genocide. It would be sad if the Government here was denying that this is the case and not...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: Deputy Ciara Conway did too.