Results 4,541-4,560 of 25,799 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Will the Senator forget I am here and carry on with her contribution because I am not interested?
- Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Hayden is not debating the budget.
- Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Like reducing the windfall tax.
- Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister. It is good to see her and I thank her for coming in to take what is obviously a Government motion on joint policing committees. As we all will agree from our experience in each of our areas, I certainly agree with the establishment of the JPCs and the reason that they were established. While some of the changes being proposed are welcome, the joint policing...
- Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not silly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Leader have an indication from the Government as to when, post the budget, the social welfare and pensions Bill will be brought to the House? I assume it will be within the next couple of weeks. I raise it because all Members of the House, including Government Members, should be aware that it offers a real opportunity to the Government to redress the total unfairness pertaining to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: He seems to have upset Senator Paul Coghlan a little.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is Thursday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: He extended it by two years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator D'Arcy has pretty quickly forgotten the local elections. There are a lot of former Fine Gael councillors walking around the place not knowing what to do, if they are not appointed to a State board, that is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Our vote was more than that of Fine Gael and the Labour Party combined.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true. The Leader knows that is not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Leader should correct the record.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is a ridiculous comment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Thousands of social housing developments were built.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Fine Gael snobs in local authorities opposed social housing schemes throughout the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Leader to check how many social houses were built in the past 14 years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I would like to ask the Deputy Leader where stands Irish Water at this stage and the whole water charges debacle. I found it a little perplexing over the past few days to see Government Deputies and Senators wringing their hands, saying it is terrible and blaming the management of Irish Water. I remind Members opposite that it is their creation. They created Irish Water and set it up as a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It might as well be private as it is a separate entity. They set it up against the advice of PwC. I genuinely call on the Government - Senator Conway does not have to leave at this stage as water falls from the sky and it is free-----