Results 541-560 of 4,905 for speaker:Diarmuid Wilson
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I join Senator Hannigan in welcoming the decision of the Financial Regulator to allow Quinn Insurance to recommence underwriting business in the United Kingdom. It is my understanding that this business equates to just over 10% of its existing business in the United Kingdom. It is worth bearing in mind that 55% of Quinn Insurance business was UK-based while 95% of the workforce is in this...
- Seanad: Financial Regulation. (27 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: On 30 March life changed dramatically for people in Enniskillen, Navan, Blanchardstown, County Cavan and neighbouring counties. Thousands of individuals and their families were plunged into uncertainty about their future following the hasty and undue action taken by the Financial Regulator to have provisional joint administrators appointed by the High Court to Quinn Insurance Limited. This...
- Seanad: Financial Regulation. (27 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He stated that one of the reasons the administrators were appointed pursuant to the Insurance (No 2) Act 1983 was to: "allow [it] ... to continue to be run as a going concern with a view to placing it on an ongoing sound commercial and financial footing". How in the name of God can the administrators run this business as a going concern when they...
- Seanad: Financial Regulation. (27 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: If it is not allowed to write new business, there will not be jobs for anyone, but that is a story for another day.
- Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I second the motion.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I call on the Leader to use his good offices to contact the Minister for Finance to ask him, while respecting the independence of Mr. Elderfield and his office, to ask the regulator to speed up the process of assessing the figures that have been put before him by the joint administrators of Quinn Insurance Limited in order to re-open the UK market to Quinn Insurance. Some 55% of Quinn...
- Seanad: TETRA System: Statements. (29 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan. The roll-out of the new TETRA mobile communications system for use by the emergency services, including the Garda, is very welcome as it will improve greatly the ability of gardaà to contact each other in a confidential manner. However, its introduction without warning just before Christmas is causing major disruption to television...
- Seanad: TETRA System: Statements. (29 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Minister of State for attending the House. On behalf of my colleagues, I appreciate it. However, the figure of 90 complaints is nowhere near realistic, given the number of complaints we are receiving. The information leaflet distributed by ComReg lists an Internet address, but the majority of those being disadvantaged in this case are not computer literate. A simple freefone...
- Seanad: TETRA System: Statements. (29 Apr 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: At 2.30 p.m. next Wednesday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I join Senator Bradford in calling on the Leader to arrange a debate on Northern Ireland. I concur with the comments of my constituency colleague, Senator O'Reilly, regarding Seán and Patricia Quinn. I join the Senator in his words of tribute to both of them on Mr. Quinn's retirement from the Quinn Group. I would also like to put on record, as I have done on many occasions, my personal...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: ââin the 37 years he has been in business, for contributing over â¬1 billion to the Exchequer of this State.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: Seán Quinn is the only billionaire I know of who lives in this country and pays his tax in this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: He is the only billionaire I know of who creates employment in this countryââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: ââand does not play the stock markets as a way of making his income.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: To refer to Seán Quinn as a menace is an unfortunate use of the English language. He is a patriot in the greatest sense of the word.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: If Seán Quinn is a menace then we need more menaces in this country, not fewer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: The regulator is a menace.
- Seanad: Job Losses. (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Barry Andrews. If Senator O'Reilly arrives before I finish, may I share a few minutes of my time with him?
- Seanad: Job Losses. (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: On Friday last, 30 April, the joint administrators appointed by the High Court to Quinn Insurance Limited announced that there were to be 900 voluntary redundancies at Quinn Insurance. The biggest job losses, 305, will be in the Blanchardstown office which has a staff of approximately 800. The head office in Cavan town will lose 226 jobs out of the 700 there, with 121 going in the first...
- Seanad: Job Losses. (6 May 2010)
Diarmuid Wilson: I reiterate that time is of the utmost importance in getting the UK insurance part of the business open as quickly as possible as so many jobs depend on it. I welcome the fact the Minister has stated his office has been in contact with Ms Arlene Foster in Northern Ireland and that discussions are at an advanced level for application to draw down INTERREG funding at the earliest date possible...