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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I was monitoring the debate on the junior certificate and I am very much with the teachers on this matter. I can bring a certain perspective to the debate because for many years I was marking junior and leaving certificate exam papers at the highest level. It is a difficult job which requires a great deal of skill and training. If someone is a good teacher it does not necessarily follow...

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Paudie Coffey, back to the House where he started his political career.

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I ask the Senator to conclude.

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Will the Senator please conclude?

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Please conclude, Senator; you have gone over time.

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: No, you have not.

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (26 Nov 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and wish him every success with his tourism policy statement which will be published shortly. In fairness, the Minister is shaping up quite well in his Department and I wish him well. Tourism is a good brief to have because it continues to be a good news story. Without being partisan, the Fianna Fáil policy document, Tourism Towards 2015, to a certain extent...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I was somewhat disconcerted to read reports on the recent announcement of an intention to withdraw security services from banks and ATM cash-in-transit trips. Apparently, it follows new thinking on the part of the regulator, the Private Security Authority, PSA. It is especially unusual that this was decided and made public in the run up to Christmas. I am not suggesting for the moment that...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Is it in order for a Member to make a comment like that about any union and in particular about a teachers' union?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Is it in order?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am not comfortable with that.

Seanad: Geological Survey of Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.

Seanad: Geological Survey of Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil ag éirí go maith leis an nGaolainn freisin.

Seanad: Geological Survey of Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I call Senator Mark Daly who has eight minutes.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I would prefer to wait until tomorrow.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Like Senator O'Donovan, I forewent my opportunity to contribute on Second Stage yesterday due to the exigencies of the debate. I do not wish to produce the same speech that I had prepared but there are two points I would like to get across while speaking to the amendment. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, back to the House. Many people have said that he and the senior...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I think my colleagues have gone out to confer on the gravity of the situation and probably to reflect on some of the words of wisdom and on what I have just pronounced upon here.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: I will not belabour the House. It is late in the year and we have had quite a lot of debate on the airwaves, on the television and in the national print, and it was morning, noon and night. I was just making the point about the new type of democracy we are seeing in Ireland. It is a new phenomenon. It is interesting in one way and it is worrying in another. If parliamentary democracy...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Ned O'Sullivan: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Seanadóir. There was a famous debate in 1948 when another coalition debacle led by Fine Gael, the mother and child scheme, was being debated. De Valera was the Leader of the Opposition, and at the end of it -----