Results 7,901-7,920 of 13,259 for speaker:Pat Gallagher
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I do not need to advise you to refrain from repetition.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Caithfidh an Teachta níos mó ná a dhícheall a dhéanamh.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I do not have to advise you, Deputy, that you should not mention the names of those who may have been here in the past but who are not here now.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I heard the interview.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Let me make it very clear that the reason we are not on Report Stage is that the Bill has been recommitted in respect of these amendments. The recommittal was proposed by Deputy Troy. Prior to this there was another recommittal and there will also further ones. That is the bad news. I ask Deputy Mattie McGrath to refrain from comments like that. They are unbecoming of him.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy is inviting interruptions.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Minister will have an opportunity later to clarify whether he made the comments.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: That is not becoming of the Deputy. He cannot draw those comparisons.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy will have other opportunities to comment on that. I ask him to continue and to adhere to the debate on the amendments.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: If the Deputy wants to hear the Minister's responses, he should be thinking about that.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I have just been taking a mental note of the number of times that Deputy Mattie McGrath mentioned the same point about driving testers and I plead with him to avoid repetition.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy's best does not seem to be good enough.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Then ask the questions.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Amendments Nos. 4 to 21, inclusive, and 28 are so general the scope has been widened. I have pleaded with Deputy Mattie McGrath and Deputies who have continually repeated themselves. I believe it is the will of the House that Members would want to hear a response from the Minister tonight. If that is the will of the House, I ask Deputy Mattie McGrath to consider at least giving the...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I am sure, after all of this, it will take the Minister much longer than 15 minutes if he is to deal with them.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: That is only my view. There is wide scope. It is the Minister who, because of the amendments, has been responsible for the recommittal. Deputy Troy had to recommit. Amendment No. 4 happened to be his but there are many more amendments in the names of other Deputies, including the Minister.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I said, "other Deputies".
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I know what the will of the House is. I can detect it. Deputy Mattie McGrath should try to reflect it.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: We have dealt with that.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Hold on, Deputy McGrath. If we heard that once, we heard it 20 times.