Results 541-560 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: We are making considerable progress without him.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I wish we could have some of them.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: One does not have to be a lawyer to read the Constitution. It is black and white.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: They spoke to each other at that time.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: What of it?
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Unbelievable.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I feel a revolt coming on.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Is he accepting the amendment?
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: The intention of the original legislation in 1997 was to let the public see the workings of the decision making process. That was the serious purpose of the Act. The tittle-tattle about Ministers going to Honolulu for St. Patrick's Day and how much it cost and how many they took, the tabloidisation of FOI, was irrelevant. The most significant sections concern decision making. By excluding...
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: This Bill is not liberal.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: We know the commissioner's view.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: The Minister of State must reply.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: On a point of order, we have opened a discussion on an amendment and this House is entitled to hear the Minister of State's reply to that amendment.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I respectfully ask the Leader to provide at least some time to hear the reply from the Minister of State to this very significant amendment which is at the heart of the Bill. I ask the Leader to allow the House to hear the Minister of State's reply to that amendment.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I wish to inform the House, on behalf of my group, that we are withdrawing from this Stage of the Bill as it serves no purpose whatsoever to continue with this charade.
- Seanad: Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements. (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I welcome Deputy John Bruton and thank him for a stimulating address. He made very clear distinctions among the choices that we, Europeans, in the form of our parties and Governments, will have to make as we move forward to the next Intergovernmental Conference. He put those choices very starkly, thereby posing the question in a very useful manner. I also congratulate him for managing to fill...
- Seanad: Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements. (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Would that it were. He is aware that the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Roche, and Mr. Proinsias de Rossa, MEP, have been in the House in recent weeks to tell us their experience of their work in the Convention on our behalf. Is it the case that members of the Praesidium, and the Convention generally, take positions according to the views of their political...
- Seanad: Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements. (12 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Authoritarian structures.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I welcome the Leader's announcement. It is clear the Government side has accepted the strenuous arguments the Opposition has been making about the procedure of the House, specifically the fact that an Oireachtas committee would be discussing a Bill at the same time as the Seanad. I am glad the Leader has drawn back from the brink and accepted arguments from this side of the House and that we...