Results 881-900 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jun 2003)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the suggestion made yesterday on the Order of Business and thank the Leader for including in today's Order Paper statements on disability to mark the Special Olympics World Summer Games. It is a positive development. My group has placed motion No. 33 on the Order Paper. I raised the issue yesterday and would like to return to it today. It arises from the UN Court of Arbitration...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: I wish to bring to the Leader's attention the Immigration Bill 2002. She will be aware that the House discussed all aspects and Stages of the Bill some time ago and that it is still with the Dáil. However, I understand that last evening, at the dead of night, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform published a raft of amendments to the Bill, many of which are expressly against the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: As I did not see it in the newspaper I read, the Senator might refer to it. We need to debate an issue in the House that causes such a large group to take to the streets.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Will the Minister of State outline the rationale for his decision not to accept Senator Browne's amendment, which is a straightforward proposal to make public the advice given by the advisory board? The Minister of State's remarks appear contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of the Freedom of Information Act and the thrust of the SMI process, an effort by the Government to expose to the...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Is it the case that when established under statute, the commission will be part and parcel of the freedom of information regime?

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: If, as the Minister of State has conceded, this is the case, any document being considered by the commission at any time would be accessible under freedom of information requests as defined in the Act. Senator Browne's proposal will, therefore, be acceded to when a freedom of information request seeking information on the advice given to the commission by the advisory committee is made.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: The Minister of State's replies will be useful for the record. On the one hand, he is not conceding to Senator Browne's amendment while, on the other, he has conceded that much of the information the Senator and others may request from the advisory board can be obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. This renders Parliament irrelevant.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are well aware of them.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Exposed to what? It is not a nuclear bomb.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (1 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, is there any possibility that the Minister of State might reply to the points raised by Senator Browne?

Seanad: Nuclear Safety: Motion. (2 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 1: After "Government" in the last line to add: "and calls on the British Government to immediately grant access to the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland to act as an Irish observer at Sellafield thereby having the same status as the International Atomic Agency at this facility." It is easy for any Irish politician to call for the closure of Sellafield. I say...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: If we needed any evidence from the Government that it was using the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003 to suppress information, it comes in its starkest form from Mr. Justice Kinlen today in his excellent report as the new Inspector of Prisons. He must be congratulated for the very clear, precise and direct way in which he has used the report to highlight deficiencies in the prison...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Within the first two months of his appointment he was asked to go to Western Australia and study the prison service there rather than poke his nose and ask the hard questions in this jurisdiction.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Next, they will be banning booing. Can the Leader say when the legislation to put the post of inspector of prisons on a statutory footing will come before the House? I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that motion 34 on the list of non-Government motions be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business. I ask the Government to take this motion because from next Monday a whole...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: The Leader knows full well that we have 21 sitting days in which to annul such charges. I propose that we do so. I seek the debate at the conclusion of the Order of Business. Let us see the colour of the Government's money on this issue. It promised when the debate was taking place some months ago that there would not be massive hikes and charges. They are here now. People will have to pay...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: Let us have that debate now. I understand the Government—

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: The statement "misleading the House" is rich, coming from the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: The Senator should restrain himself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Senator for withdrawing that most ungracious remark. Next Monday the Government will impose these charges.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2003)

Brian Hayes: The new Minister for propaganda is doing a very good job. From next Monday these charges will take effect. It is wrong that the charges should be imposed before the Oireachtas has an opportunity to debate them. We have 21 sitting days in which to annul these charges. I suggest we annul them today.