Results 961-980 of 1,677 for speaker:Ned O'Sullivan

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: You have gone a good bit over time, Senator.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: As we are in danger of running late for the Order of Business, I ask the Senator to conclude.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: The Senator's points have been very well made and represented the views of many people.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. Is Senator Lombard happy with the reply?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Amendments to Councillors' Conditions: Statements (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I commend the Minister for being, as Senator Leyden said, the first since the former Minister, Noel Dempsey, to address the question of councillors' pay and remuneration. The then Minister brought the councillors' terms and conditions from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, but the Minister has the dance of the whole lot with what he is offering. He is light years away from what is required....

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I hope I am not in any way stealing the Leas-Chathaoirleach's thunder in welcoming some interesting developments on the tourism front in County Kerry, including the Leas-Chathaoirleach's home town of Killarney. I welcome the establishment of a new international college for hotel management being established as part of a public private partnership between the Gleneagle Group and Tralee...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Election of Vice Chairman (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I second that.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I support the comments made by Senator Butler regarding the anonymous trolling that happens on Facebook and other blog pages. I had personal experience of that in a previous Seanad when I famously, or perhaps infamously, made a comment about the seagull situation in Dublin. What my family and I had to undergo on the blog pages for a week afterwards was horrendous. It was terribly upsetting...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: There are a couple of other good lines in there as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I warmly welcome the announcement about the appointment of Ms Bridget Doody as Clerk-Assistant of Seanad Éireann. As a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, I was glad to be associated with that appointment. Bridget has a long history of service in the Civil Service and in these Houses in particular. She is a close neighbour of mine in north Kerry. I know her family very...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Yes.

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister to the House. Fianna Fáil will be supporting the motion. The Minister must be glad to have an opportunity to discuss a good news item like tourism. It is a rest from his travails with some of the more difficult elements of his brief. Although we have a lot to be thankful for in tourism, the Minister will know that we cannot for one moment become complacent or...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister to the House. Like everybody else in the House and across the country, I am greatly saddened and upset at the revelations in Tuam. The treatment of young mothers and their children defies belief. It is chilling and horrendous. My sympathy is with the families concerned and my hope is that they will gain some solace from the huge outpouring of support they have...

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I must ask the Minister of State not to be confrontational.

Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I have to advise the Minister of State that he has five minutes before we must move to the next business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I would like to make a couple of observations and ask a few questions. I welcome all our visitors and thank them for their excellent presentations. I put it to Mr. Lee that I do not understand the definition of a "write-off". Two of my vehicles have been written off through no fault of my own. Am I wrong in my understanding that if a car is written off, it is chopped up for spare parts...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: It is very disappointing and dispiriting to learn of a yet another collapse in the talks in Northern Ireland on the formation of an Executive on foot of the Good Friday Agreement. Unless wiser heads prevail, we are looking at a third election in the North in the space of a year or so or, even worse, the reimposition of direct rule from Britain. This is at a time when the North faces major...