Results 721-740 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: In front of the people is the investigations referendum, the single biggest change to civil liberties and the Constitution since 1937. This referendum is flawed and rushed legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that Deputy Shatter, the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister for Defence, the most powerful man in the Government, sees fit to come into the Houses and answers the charges he has laid against eight Attorneys General. He simply dismissed them in an out-of-hand and arrogant fashion which reflects the arrogant fashion in which the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: If you do not like it, be quiet. Members opposite know they are sleepwalking the public into making the single biggest change-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: -----which will mean people can be brought into the investigations committee, on which I serve, with the committee deciding whether they are entitled to legal representation. The committee can make findings of fact-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: -----against people who may have been vindicated in the courts. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that the Minister for Justice and Equality and for Defence, Deputy Shatter-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: -----who should not be holding both portfolios, a concern we raised previously, should come to the House to explain, perhaps to his colleagues opposite whose parties are in government, what the referendum is about.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Members opposite are proponents of this referendum-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: -----which has been proposed by the Government and they should explain to the public what they are trying to do with this referendum. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister, Deputy Shatter, be brought into the House today to discuss the serious concerns that my colleagues and I raised with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, on the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I took that Bill for the Opposition and was here for four hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: With grave reservations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I have read both documents.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Is the Minister, Deputy Shatter, coming to the House today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Do you have a question for the Leader?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does Senator Bacik support the comments made by the Minister, Deputy Shatter, about eight former Attorneys General?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does Senator Bacik support the comments made yesterday by the Minister, Deputy Shatter?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Senator support what Deputy Shatter said yesterday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Let us have the Minister, Deputy Shatter, before the House today.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does Senator Bacik support what he stated about the Attorneys General?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Senator agree with what the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, said about the Attorneys General?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator does not support him. At least she is honest.