Results 5,421-5,440 of 26,864 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely. Questions need to be answered about that. Talk about transparency.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It was circulated and I ask Senator Hayden to support it. It is on the floor of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I am just answering a question. It is there for them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I said it was Rape Crisis Network Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I led on it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That was the context in which it was raised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We are so lucky to have Senator Gilroy here to show us the right path on every issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Nothing I said was-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy is very welcome to the House. I am puzzled as to why he is not in the Department of Finance himself. He is responsible for European affairs and data protection. I would have believed that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, or his Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, who are responsible for this legislation, would have been here....
- Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: There is a real issue. We have 11 or 12 amendments on the Bill that we will table. I do not doubt the Government's desire to afford protection to mortgage holders but I believe the legislation needs to be strengthened sufficiently. The Minister of State referred to the question of why loan books are sold. We understand why they are sold. Mortgage holders wonder, in connection with the...
- Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We should try to explain to people why, when the Government sells their mortgages to a vulture fund, they have no opportunity to get a discount on their mortgages in the same way multi-billion dollar enterprises did when the Government sold the IBRC residential mortgage book at a substantial discount. People in the portfolio will have their houses repossessed on the back of it.
- Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not mean anything by it.
- Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister of State is very welcome. I did not mean any offence to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: On behalf of my party, Fianna Fáil, I extend my deepest sympathy to the families of those who were brutally murdered in the savage terrorist attack in Tunisia, in particular, those of the three Irish victims and our fellow countrymen, Laurence Hayes, Martina Hayes and Lorna Carty. It is disgraceful that people enjoying their holidays with their families were gunned down in such a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That shows the power of Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That would be a good subject for a Commencement debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Is there anything else?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: There are.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I am sure you will be glad as well.