Results 4,461-4,480 of 25,799 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: He will be there for two weeks. Give me a break.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: -----I ask Senator Paul Coghlan to correct the record, because no board member, bar the chairman, is entitled to claim expenses from IMMA. He is not doing work pro bonobecause he would not have received a fee anyway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: When did we ever do that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: He has not nominated him to the Seanad; he has nominated him to contest the by-election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: So it is our fault. We should just shut up and say nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is exactly the point. Welcome to work.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: We allow people to speak their minds on this side of the House. We are not sheep.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Has the Leader received an update from the Minister for Health on the multiple sclerosis drug, fampridine - Fampyra - which has still not been assessed by the Department of Health? Many sufferers of MS cannot access the drug which could change their lives and give them back their mobility. I do not take issue with the Leader but I am sick to the back teeth of writing to the Department of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am holding a ballot paper for the Seanad by-election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not see the problem with displaying it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I know the Government does not want to discuss the issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I will not display it but I refer to the ballot paper for the Seanad by-election. The second candidate on the list is Mr. John McNulty from Donegal. I will not give his address. He is listed as a business man and board member of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. We know he is not a board member of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and we contest that he probably never was, because the board...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I accept and respect your ruling from last week, a Chathaoirligh, but the Government cannot slide away from this and think people are going to forget about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not forgetting about it, because what has happened in the past week is absolutely despicable and deplorable. It is a degradation of the Seanad. I say to the Leader that the Taoiseach and a Minister of his party has brought the Chamber and the democratic structures of the State into disrepute. A nomination was made up in order to ensure the individual concerned could run in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, I have a question for the Leader and I have also tabled an amendment to the Order of Business. We deserve answers on the issue. Let us be fair. The Taoiseach belatedly apologised, but I do not know what he apologised for, because the previous day he said it was a matter for the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys. I would not have tabled the amendment if the Minister, Deputy...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: -----as to why-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: She did not answer the questions that were put to her, so I will give her another opportunity. I table an amendment to the Order of Business-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: -----and I would ask my colleagues to examine the matter if we care about transparency and getting to the bottom of the issue. I seek the attendance in this Chamber today of the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, to answer questions put to her, such as who asked her to appoint this chap, John McNulty, to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA. Was she aware that this individual...