Results 5,081-5,100 of 25,799 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to raise a matter concerning the student gardaí in Templemore. Approximately 300 gardaí have undertaken their training of 104 weeks in total with 32 weeks in Templemore. I am alarmed as I am dealing with a couple of cases at the moment in which the Department of Social Protection is refusing these trainee gardaí the family income supplement, FIS. I believe the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Badly needed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should not forget that the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, laid on a train for three people in his constituency. He is well used to looking after his constituents.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Leader to set aside time after the Easter break for a debate on the pyrite scheme with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, or the Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey. It was in this Chamber that the first legislation was tabled to deal with the issue. The Seanad has done a great deal of work in that regard and it would be useful...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: He does not appear to be very vocal on it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is the 89th piece of legislation we have published.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is good at that. The Leader is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Prior to the Easter break I asked the Leader to bring to the house the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coffey, or the Minister, Deputy Kelly, to review the pyrite remediation scheme. Over the Easter recess I found out that a grand total of five houses have been remediated under the Government scheme, which has been up and running...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: He wants to contact Mary Lou in the other House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: There are 10,000 houses affected by this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I look forward to it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We would be delighted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Shame.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Not really.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Would it not be better to see it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for outlining the rationale for some of the changes in the Bill. We will not support the Bill. While we are not opposed to the back-to-work family dividend as a key measure of the Bill where families will retain the full qualified child increase, it is important to note that the Government has not gone far enough in some of the measures to row...