Results 4,781-4,800 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The Senator should finish reading his speech.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Let us do the business and not-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Perhaps a new coalition.
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I apologise to the Minister of State because I have to leave after I make my contribution as my committee meeting is starting at 1.30 p.m. I pay tribute to the Minister of State, who has done an excellent job since he has taken up the portfolio. I am very jealous because it is an area I would very much appreciate having an opportunity to work in. There is probably very little that I would...
- Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I listened very carefully to the contribution from Senator Kieran O'Donnell and there is clearly not enough information. This must be tackled. Working on the Permanent TSB figures, it seems that 6,500 of the loans are performing loans. The first fact we must establish is why performing loans are being sold. There is a large job for the...
- Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I was trying to show respect. He is the former Lord Churchtown. While he is sitting at the Cabinet table-----
- Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister, Deputy Ross, should exercise his powers as Minister and stop sitting on the fence and commentating as he used to in the Sunday Independentby telling us how everything should be fixed. He can fix this one. He could ask his colleague, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to tell the bank the Government is a major shareholder and that it should not sell until proper and adequate...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I pay tribute to the work of my colleague, Senator Ó Clochartaigh. He thanked everybody in the House and I take this opportunity to thank him for the service he has done during the past seven years. I came across the Senator for the first time when I was a Minister of State and was dealing with a Commencement matter he had raised. He taught me a very good lesson, namely, that if one...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Was it not Michael D. Higgins?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: So am I.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Measures to Counter False Self-Employment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the House to take this debate. This must be very close to his own heart. I formally second Senator Nash's Bill. The Minister of State is probably engaged in several conversations every day, every week and every month. He must hear about how young people, and not-so-young people, are suffering out there in the market. They are being forced...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Measures to Counter False Self-Employment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: When Senators operate on instruction from outside the House-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: On a point of order, as the co-signatory of the amendment, the reason given by the Chair for ruling it out of order is that it could give rise to a cost on the Exchequer.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I ask the Leas-Chathaoirleach for guidance on the matter.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Would an amendment be accepted if it did not involve a charge to the Exchequer?
- Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to the House. I thank him for his leadership and hard work on this issue. It has been difficult and time-consuming. He has certainly travelled a journey because we had earlier discussions on this in the previous Government. I thank Senator Noone and her committee for the excellent work they have done. We had a conversation in the House...
- Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Down Syndrome Ireland has stated that this debate is not about such a thing yet that false claim was made in this House this evening. I fear that there will be more misinformation and unequal comparisons made with the worst cases. Senator Higgins made a very good point about the comparisons made with Switzerland. This conversation will be tough. Let us join in the battle to convince the...
- Seanad: Visit of Georgian Delegation (29 Mar 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I join in the Cathaoirleach's welcome to the delegation from Georgia to the House. They have built up a very good relationship with the House, especially since - I apologise but I cannot pronounce his surname - George's appointment.