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- Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: We should be talking to Kieran Mulvey.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: We should be talking to Kieran Mulvey.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That is a town in south Tipperary, Minister.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: He went to Clonmel to close the barracks and he did the same in Mullingar.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Did he say anything beforehand?
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. It is incredible that the Fine Gael Party and Labour Party are denying the Fianna Fáil Party the right to pursue its duty of holding the Government to account by tabling motions in Private Members' time. Irrespective of whether we had tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, or a...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy Noonan also served on this side of the House as leader of Fine Gael. He actually led that party to destruction.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I do not mind taking lectures on a continual basis. However, when the Minister for Finance-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: -----states that we should not have tabled this motion and that we should not be engaging in a debate on it is quite farcical. We were accused of playing politics with the protection of life during pregnancy Bill, with the economy and with the property tax. I recall that Fine Gael opposed the four-year plan introduced prior to the most recent general election with the greatest vigour and...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Ultimately, however, nothing has happened. To return to the substance of this debate, the Minister for Justice and Equality has admitted that what he did in respect of Deputy Wallace was wrong. The Minister displayed a serious lack of judgment. Any individual can display such a lack of judgment. The point now is that he must resolve this matter very quickly in order to ensure that people...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: As already stated, my party tabled some motions in the Seanad last February. This was long before the matter relating to Deputy Wallace and the Pembroke Street episode came to light. The point is that there is major disquiet among rank and file gardaí, who went so far as to table motions of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality at their conferences. They stated that...
- Order of Business (30 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That is a disgraceful Standing Order.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 May 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 263. To ask the Minister for Health his views on claims made by the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine of an expected significant worsening of the current, very precarious medical staffing levels in emergency departments here, that evidence from around the country currently indicates that staffing deficits will worsen significantly from July 2013 and that it is likely that many...
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Therefore, there will there be a full plenary discussion on the development of the prison.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That is shameful.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Do not go there. Do not bring up the past.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That is the idea - the debate was allowed-----
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: -----and that is as it should be.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be made available for the provision of an outdoor play area at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26809/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (11 Jun 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a special needs assistant for the next school year. [27547/13]