Results 761-780 of 1,229 for speaker:Denis Landy

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Kelly. This is the first time he has come before us since his elevation.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I apologise. This is the first occasion on which I have been in the House when the Minister has been present. As the Minister stated, this Bill is a technical measure to ensure that democracy can be seen to be working to its fullest in this House. I am pleased Fianna Fáil has decided to support the Bill. All of those who are elected to serve, either here or at some other level,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: Step 1, taking orders; step 2, acting on orders. I welcome everybody back to the Chamber. We had a great summer, and a great sporting summer. Last November I raised concerns about Hayes' Hotel in Thurles but I am pleased that, ten months on, Hayes' Hotel was purchased yesterday by a Tipperary man who intends to develop the hotel as an iconic building incorporating all the history of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: What was the price of the apartment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: It could be but it was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: I thank the witnesses for attending. I will be very quick in making my observations and asking my questions. On development levies, the delegation is correct that each local authority sets a development levy. However, it is the autonomous role of elected members at local level, and I do not subscribe in any way to the view that this process should be centralised. It would be taking away...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: Councillors from all parties throughout the country have brought to my attention a further problem with Irish Water. Irish Water is refusing to instruct the local authority as its agent to carry out repairs to housing estates that have not been taken into charge where problems occur with pumping stations with sewerage, etc. My county, Tipperary, has 40 estates that have not been taken in...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: I am amazed only five days after the all-Ireland final that nobody has put a jibe across the Minister of State regarding the result. As a fellow Tipperary man, I can assure him I am not going to do so anyway. All I can say is that the ash was certainly tested on Saturday last. As anybody who saw the slow-motion shots on RTE will confirm, they literally showed the hurleys bending as proof...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: -----because it is not profitable and it will destroy much of the amenity, such as the scenery, that is the Golden Vale. Where do we marry the incentive for the profit line for land that is not currently afforested and how do we provide a greater incentive for farmers and landowners to get into planting? No doubt more jobs will grow from extra planting. In our constituency, Medite, which...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: We will be warm this winter. Hopefully, we will not need to buy too much coal. The timescale of the felling licences is something that has concerned those in the sector. Can the Minister of State clarify whether the Bill will reduce that timescale? Currently, it takes up to 12 months to get a licence. That is too long, if somebody is trying to organise to bring in machinery and to agree...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: The Senator was doing great until he started that craic.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: That is not a hard job.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: You have been goaded.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: The only way we would get to look at your eyes is if we held our heads in shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I find it hard to see Senator Wilson's eyes across the Chamber. Today, I wish to speak about the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and the national dementia strategy. This Government committed, when it took up office in 2011, to publish and carry out a national dementia strategy. A number of steps have taken place since then, including support from Atlantic...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: When you were appointing your boys to the boards-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: Appointing your own to the boards when there was 15% unemployment, some 60 of them in three days

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: I welcome the members of the board and staff. In 2014, Bord na gCon received €10.84 million in State funding. I have discussed this matter with the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, who has responsibility for Bord na gCon. He initiated the Indecon report, which was due out earlier this year but eventually came out in recent months. Many issues with regard to Bord na gCon about which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: I will remind Ms Larkin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Indecon Report: Bord na gCon (21 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: What is that?