Results 8,601-8,620 of 9,753 for speaker:Terry Leyden
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: It is 40 years since I came to Dáil Éireann so I know a few people.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Minimum unit pricing is a big step forward and one of the most important sections of the Bill. However, we should be aware that there are six or seven pages of advertising outlining offers in every Sunday newspaper. For example, last Sunday, two 70 cl bottles of Jameson were €50 but then there was a voucher for €10, making the actual price €20 per bottle. One can have...
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: That is a clarification and it is fair enough. There are ways of getting around it. They have a lot of bright people. I refer to the very small shops and shopkeepers. My local store, Castlecoote Stores, pays €500 a year for a wine licence, which is the same as Tesco, Dunnes, Lidl, Aldi and so on pay. That is not fair. The amount of wine sold in a small rural area is very low. It...
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: I could argue that the separation is very evident from the point of view of cost and everything else. It is all linked. Deputy Harris is a young Minister and I have known him since he was a child. Well, not quite.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: I just want to say-----
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: In fairness, I want to encourage the Minister to embrace the Fianna Fáil amendment. That is why I am nice to him. I know he has integrity and good advisors and back up. There are top people in the Department; I used to have them when I was there myself. The Minister also has the willingness as a good constituency representative to listen to the views of those interested people who...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charles Flanagan, to come to the House to discuss the spread of rural crime? The problem is really very serious. Fear stalks the land because of what has happened quite recently. I refer to the brutal attack on Mr. Richie McKelvey from Brosna, outside Birr, a 54 year old batchelor who was beaten and thrown into a shed and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Senator Buttimer should not be making political speeches as Leader of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: The Leader should respect his position. It is undignified.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Not down the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: The Leader must be joking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: It is coming down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Give me a break.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: Is Fine Gael going to restore the Blueshirts as well?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: When the Leader is on history, he might as well go back the whole way then. General O'Duffy could do something about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: For God's sake, crime is rampant in the country.People are living in fear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: People are being attacked in their homes-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: -----and this is what we get from the Government, for God's sake.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: I am a long-standing Member.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)
Terry Leyden: I have never heard such rubbish in my life.