Results 4,581-4,600 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: I do not oppose the points made by Senator Harris. ECT has worked for some people and not for others. In the same way as a tooth extraction or chemotherapy, people make decisions on all areas and that is the issue that concerns me. This is the classic example of protecting the profession and ignoring the receptor. I am a professional in a different profession. We should not allow this to...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: This is true. Allow me to restate.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: While this is an imperfect argument that we are putting forward, I could come up with the perfect result. I will explain it shortly. We must deal with the issue raised by Senator Harris when we reach a situation that the best thing for a person is a particular treatment and the person does not want it. That happens every week in hospitals. A doctor might ask a patient to take a course of...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: That is not correct.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: I wish to add to my earlier contribution. With all due respect to Senator Prendergast, whom I know is very committed, she undermined her own argument. It may well be the case that relatives and other people should be consulted but in her contribution she made it quite clear that she was only referring to two consultants. In 2007, my former colleague, Dr. Mary Henry, and I put forward a...
- Seanad: Mental Health (Involuntary Procedures) (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: As the Senator well knows.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: We would also like to be associated with the words of Senator Cassidy in congratulating Senator Cummins on his elevation to the important role of Leader of the House. I wish him well in that regard. I also thank Senator Cassidy for his support and co-operation in recent years as Leader of the House. On the question raised by Senator Cassidy, I seek a reassessment of where we are in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: In dealing with the banks, as many on both sides of the House have stated in the past few months, â¬50 billion, â¬60 billion or â¬70 billion of the money we are paying back is going to German and French banks. Of course, they do not want us to default or see a rescheduling, as it would not be in the interests of their people. Chancellor Merkel faces four or five LÃ¥nder elections between...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: It is all about perspective.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, a Chathaoirligh, I would like to put on the record the fact that the House gave every opportunity to Senator Callely to have a discussion, and adjourned twice one night for that purpose, but he refused to do so. It is not as if he did not have the opportunity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: In addition, at the last meeting of the committee he was given an equal chance, which he refused.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: The Senator refused the right-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: We waited two hours for him here, and he did not have the manners to ring back and say he was not coming in.
- Seanad: EU Regulation on Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Motion (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, I do not want the sitting to be suspended. This should be dealt with under the rules of the House.
- Seanad: EU Regulation on Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Motion (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: We have other things to do and it should be dealt with.
- Seanad: EU Regulation on Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Motion (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, to the House and I congratulate her on her elevation. It is well deserved.
- Seanad: EU Regulation on Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Motion (24 Mar 2011)
Joe O'Toole: The House will applaud her appointment and elevation. She did trojan work as Leader of the Opposition in the House for the past four or five years. I wish her well. We have the utmost confidence in her. This is the type of change in Europe we need to welcome. It is a tidying up and reduction of bureaucracy. It is a recognition by various countries of each other's court systems. It...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2011)
Joe O'Toole: I fully support the points made by Senator Cassidy. I do not know whether this is the time to go into all of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2011)
Joe O'Toole: I thought that, so I will say "Ditto to that". I thank the Leader of the House as I spoke to him on a number of occasions over the weekend with regard to including the extra debate today on the economic situation. I appreciate its inclusion and on this basis I will support the Order of Business today. The Nyberg report was presented to us yesterday, but we will not have the opportunity to...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2011)
Joe O'Toole: That was when you were over here, Paul. It is all change now. We fully understand.