Results 621-640 of 24,382 for speaker:Seán Barrett
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Will the Taoiseach confirm that we will have what was normal custom, namely, the Adjournment debate at the end of the session? Will he confirm that the final day will be given over to such a debate, as was always normal practice? One would have the opportunity to review the performance of the Government over a 12-month period and give the Government an opportunity to respond to the various...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: No, that is a different issue.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: The provision was there for donkeys' years-----
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: -----until people like the Taoiseach and the Minister for Foreign Affairs scrapped it. It should never have been scrapped.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: It would be an opportunity for the Taoiseach to stand up and give an account of himself for the preceding 12 months.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: I am not talking about confidence.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: It is not.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Is the Taoiseach saying that we will not have an Adjournment debate?
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: We will not have an Adjournment debate.
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: "Yes we can."
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Much of what the Minister of State has stated in his reply is dependent on the interpretation of the provisions by one housing official as compared with another. One often finds that one has to argue a case on behalf of a constituent. I maintain that a person who can readily show there is not available to him or her a bedroom for sleeping should be included in the homeless category. I have...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Will this Bill be going back to the Seanad?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Could the Minister of State not table an amendment in the Seanad to have Members of the Oireachtas included in the list of persons to be circulated by the manager?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: The type of anti-social behaviour I shall talk about is not a matter of Johnny hitting little Mary on the way home from school. It is more serious than that in parts of Dublin.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: I hope that is all that people have to contend with in Galway.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: In some housing estates, ordinary, decent people are trying to live quiet lives in the face of drug dealing-----
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (25 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: -----and gangsterism. As Deputy Ciarán Lynch stated, there is no strategy to address the problem. We need action. People should behave in a normal and reasonable way. Someone might turn music up too loud the odd time or upset people with a party, but these things happen and are not consistent. Sometimes, all one needs to do is look at a house to know. A local authority house costs a...
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: Where has all this legislation been for the past few months?
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: The media is being briefed.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
Seán Barrett: The Taoiseach should let us know what newspaper to get and we will read it.