Results 941-960 of 2,412 for speaker:Niall Ó Donnghaile

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Deirdre Hargey, Lord Mayor of Belfast (8 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Tá fhios agam.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Deirdre Hargey, Lord Mayor of Belfast (8 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: He is unusually quiet.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Settle down.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: This is serious business.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Senator does not understand.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: He is away now but I wish to refer to some of the remarks Senator Mullen made earlier. I do not care whether people are the most eminent senior counsel, barristers, legal professors or legal practitioners in this State. If people are advocating or pursuing toxic victim-blaming or quazi-endorsement - that might not be the right word but it certainly veers close to it - around a culture of...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I do not, because I know the Senator has to come to the House and make the points that he has to make. I am certain there will be other opportunities to do so. If Senator O'Sullivan wants to understand nationalist thinking, why they have turned their backs on Westminster and why they see it as part of the problem rather than the solution, then all he need do is come North, engage with and...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Is it appropriate for me to move my amendment now?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I will discuss it briefly and the Chair can advise me on the right time to move it. Amendment No. 74 relates to the requirement that a legal academic must have continuous practice of four years before being considered for appointment. While we all acknowledge it is important to ensure there is considerable legal experience involved, the requirement is too restrictive. Somebody might be...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: That is a good effort. I appreciate that.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Bulaí fir.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I am conscious when I speak on this Bill that I am among some particularly eminent legal minds. I am genuinely appreciative and in listening mode when it comes to what those Members have said about my amendment.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I do not know about that but go raibh maith agat. I am listening and it is worthwhile hearing those Senators' views on it. I am not at a great divergence from Senator Norris's thinking on it. I heard what he said about amendment No. 74 and having four years experience in practice. I agree with everything he said about the wherewithal and ability of legal academics, and in this amendment I...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I move amendment No. 74:In page 23, to delete line 37, and in page 24, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: “(3) Subsection (1) shall only apply to a legal academic who has qualified as a barrister or solicitor and subsequent subsections of this section, in so far as they relate to a person who is referred to in them as a ‘head of a faculty’ or...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I welcome our visitors to the Public Gallery who are here to listen to the debate on the Bill. I commend and support those in the Labour Party group who proposed the Bill. Sinn Féin will support the passage of the Bill on Second Stage. Like a number of previous speakers, we in Sinn Féin opposed the 2004 referendum. Over the past number of years, we have begun to see the toxic...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Minister of State should go for it.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: It is in the Good Friday Agreement.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: That does not mention our rights.