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Seanad: Flood Relief (12 Oct 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: We all do.

Seanad: Flood Relief (12 Oct 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I accept the Minister of State's sincerity in addressing the issue. I am delighted he has agreed to attend the forum in Skibbereen, which is not just parochial. The plan is to rotate to Ennis and other towns to achieve solutions to the flooding problem. People in many areas suffered last year. Cork city, Bandon and Skibbereen all suffered. Skibbereen was on the long finger for many years...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: The issue of the children's hospital was raised by my colleague, Senator Norris. I knew a mother on the Beara Peninsula who had got out of bed at 2.30 a.m. week after week to catch the train to Dublin and then take a taxi from Heuston Station to visit the old Crumlin Hospital with two sick children. Such people, whether on the Beara Peninsula, in Dingle, County Donegal or Dublin, are...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: Will the Leader to convey to the Cabinet the urgent need not only for a debate on the Roscommon case but for a referendum? We should reflect that in 1999 the then Minister, Deputy Frank Fahey, who had the portfolio of responsibility for children, wrote to the then chairman of the Joint Committee on the Constitution, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to ask it to carry out a constitutional review to...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: It is time we stopped shilly-shallying and bowing our heads to these right-wing extremists who are worse than the Ku Klux Klan.

Seanad: Overcrowding in Prisons: Statements (3 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister to the House and this debate on prisons in general. I have been a Member of the House for 17 years and in the period 1994 to 1997, the coalition Government made a decision that cancelled all capital expenditure on prisons, the effect of which was to leave the incoming Government in 1997 playing catch-up with the provision of prison spaces and prison development. This...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (9 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Haughey, and thank him for replying to this Adjournment matter, which concerns the current situation regarding the construction of two schools in Bantry, a new gaelscoil on a greenfield site and a new community school, or community college as some call it. This is a pet project for me. Approximately 15 years ago we eventually persuaded the...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (9 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I thank the Minister of State for his response, which has covered the areas of concern. I am reassured the situation as outlined will ensure the projects will be completed as far as possible within the approximate timeframe originally envisaged.

Seanad: Fisheries Protection (10 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Connick, for taking this matter. To synopsise it in a nutshell, Garnish is a little fishing hamlet in the Beara Peninsula, about 15 miles west of Castletownbere, facing primarily onto Kenmare Bay. Beara, Castletownbere and the general area are renowned for their fishing activity and in the small community of Garnish there are in the region of 20 or 25...

Seanad: Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I pay tribute to Kieran in a way that celebrates his life rather than sorrowfully, as sorrow passed in the beautiful ceremony on the day of his funeral and in the proceedings before it such as at his removal from Dublin and so on. My first memory of Kieran is while we were canvassing in County Tipperary during the 1997 Seanad election campaign. We were on the same panel and while it is...

Seanad: Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: We were poaching as best we could. However, we met on the same evening that Michael Smith had been appointed as Minister. At approximately 9 p.m., when most people would have been finishing canvassing, we both received news that a celebration was taking place in Thurles for Michael O'Kennedy and Michael Smith, that all of the councillors in the Tipperary region probably would be there and...

Seanad: North-South Co-operation on Sex Offenders: Statements (30 Nov 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome this debate and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, to the House. Significant progress has been made in legislating for sex offences in the past decade or so. It is regrettable that we were not debating this 30 years ago. However, circumstances have changed. For such legislation to be a success, it is critical that there be international co-operation. However,...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: If it is helpful, I do not have a problem in creating a gap between Committee and Report Stages. I was late for the Order of Business and did not realise that both Stages had been ordered. The Bill is relatively short.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I do not have a problem with that. There is a suggestion that the House would-----

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I believe the Minister agrees that there should be a time gap.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: While it is an important issue, it will not take up a full day.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I might lose my position as acting leader.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I propose that Report Stage be taken next week.

Seanad: Lost at Sea Scheme: Motion (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: Senator O'Sullivan has the floor.

Seanad: Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2010)

Denis O'Donovan: I add my thanks to the Minister of State and his officials. In particular, I did not get the opportunity to place on record my appreciation for all the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, has done in service to the State. On a personal basis, I am sorry, as we are of about the same vintage, that he is no longer going forward for election. As Minister for Justice and Law Reform, he has been a...