Results 8,041-8,060 of 9,753 for speaker:Terry Leyden
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State's statement that the HSE has indicated that the Monksland primary care centre is currently located in CHO area 2 and that no decision has been made to transfer this centre to CHO area 8. The Government should take more control. Ministers should decide on any major transfers. I would have much more faith in dealing with the Minister of State, Deputy Canney,...
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: Yes.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: We will take four minutes each. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to the House. He used his skills to bring about a solution. Wanting to annul this statutory instrument makes for a popular soundbite and is attractive when seeking support from the electorate. Sinn Féin's spokesperson appeared on Vincent Browne's show and went on about this great achievement, but what was...
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: Sinn Féin can try it anywhere it likes.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I was a Member of this House before the Senators were. Sinn Féin can use every instrument, strategy and technology to try to do that. At the end of the day-----
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: -----we represent the ordinary people of this country-----
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: -----working-class people, to ensure that we introduce new regulations in consultation. So be it if some call this "new politics", but in the old politics of prior to the general election, this instrument would have been rammed through without any debate. Now, in consultation with Fianna Fáil and our spokesman, Deputy Cowen, who tabled progressive policy suggestions-----
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: -----a Minister who negotiated the programme for Government adopted a constructive approach. We have an opportunity. The statutory instrument process has been abused by all Governments. This one should have been primary legislation in the first instance, not an amendment to an Act. It is a long document. Many people who oppose it probably have not even read it. It requires a bit of study.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: As the Minister stated, it would be a free-for-all on 1 July if this document were opposed. I want Sinn Féin to explain what it is offering as an alternative to this statutory instrument and what the Minister, in consultation with Deputy Cowen and others, is doing. What is Sinn Féin's proposal?
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: Yes.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I have been listening intently. This is not like recycling oil. I know about the problems with laundering and smuggling in the North.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I know what is happening north of the Border. I know what is happening in terms of smuggling. I know what is happening in terms of diesel laundering.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I know how many cars have been destroyed with very little being done about it. I want to clamp down on that as well as illegal dumping. If this statutory instrument does not pass tonight, there would be further illegal dumping.
- Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: That does not and never will suit Fianna Fail. We abide by and support the law. We want people to be tax compliant, as set out in these regulations, and we want the industry to be controlled. At home, we pay €320 per year for the collection of two bins every two weeks. If the Minister finds after the assessment that pay-by-weight costs are in excess of what obtained previously, he...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: Does the Chair have to rule in accordance with Brexit?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: This country is only a few years in the EU.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I would like to be allowed to publish the Registration of Wills Bill 2016.This is a Bill to provide for the registration of wills and I seek leave of the House to amend the Order of Business to allow the Bill to be published and circulated. In due course, we will have the opportunity to debate it during Private Members' business. To follow up on Senator O'Mahony's point about the Brexit...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: It will allow our friends in Northern Ireland to travel the length and breadth of Europe and beyond with an Irish European passport. The same applies to Irish people in Britain. A total of 90,000 people born in England applied for and received Irish passports over the past decade, while 150,000 people born in Northern Ireland are entitled to passports through parents or grandparents and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: A vote, indeed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)
Terry Leyden: I recommend to the Passport Office that it open a dedicated section in Balbriggan or Dundalk to deal exclusively with passport applications from Northern Ireland and Britain. At present, it is taking approximately 15 days to get a standard Irish passport and every Member has been inundated with requests to expedite passports. If the new applications arrive, it will absolutely inundate the...