Results 81-100 of 21,323 for speaker:Alan Kelly

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Kelly: ——smacked of gombeenism.

Seanad: Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 2008: Second Stage (28 Feb 2008)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, to the House. The Labour Party will not oppose this technical Bill. I welcome the clarification we were given about the areas covered by the Limerick Northside Regeneration Agency and the Limerick Southside Regeneration Agency. I agree with the comments of the previous speakers about the work being done there. The model being used in...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I join Senator Fitzgerald in welcoming the publication of the report into cancer care in the midlands, which is overdue. I thought we had learned our lessons with regard to timelines for publication and giving those affected adequate time to study these reports prior to publication. It is not right or proper that people are given hours to study them before they are published. I hope this...

Seanad: Electoral Commission: Motion (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is one of the few senior Ministers who comes to the House and appears to listen, which is novel and nice to see. Most political parties should not have a major issue with this. It is something for which my party has a track record in terms of the legislation introduced by the former Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin. Much of it still stands and...

Seanad: Electoral Commission: Motion (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Electoral Commission: Motion (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: Or the Green Party.

Seanad: Hazardous Waste (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister to the House. I wish to raise a very important issue on the Adjournment, namely, whether the Government will honour its commitment to clean up the Silvermines dumps, which have remained idle since mining operations ceased in the area in the early 1980s. This issue has been discussed in the House before, but changes that have taken place recently have brought the issue...

Seanad: Hazardous Waste (5 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I would appreciate if the Minister would ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources a question on my behalf. Given that €3 million of the €10.6 million has been allocated this year and accepting that the cost of the works will be in excess of the latter figure, will the Minister outline the dates for the staged release of the funds in order that a proper assessment...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I agree with Senator Fitzgerald that we need the Minister for Finance to come to the House. I hope he will be in the House to debate the Finance Bill tomorrow and the day after. Obviously that is a Bill that contains much detail and Senators will be going through it. However, we need the Minister to address the House separately because of the changing economy. It has turned around quite...

Seanad: Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I do not have many comments to make as this Bill is technical in nature. On Second Stage I made a few observations and requested information of the Minister of State, Deputy Sargent. Perhaps he could respond to those requests. He said he would do so but I presume he has not yet got around to doing it.

Seanad: Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Willie O'Dea, from a neighbouring county of mine. It is regrettable that the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance cannot be with us. He might give us the pleasure of a visit at a future date, as I am sure there is a requirement on the horizon to discuss the economy. I take this opportunity to comment on the economic situation in which Ireland now finds itself...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I hope the Tánaiste does, but like the kid in the playground he knows much less than he thinks he does and now we will find out that to the country's cost. I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I write my own.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: That is the standard line drawn out.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: Previously they stated it would be 3.5%.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." On behalf of the Labour Party, I am delighted to introduce the Protection of Employees (Agency Workers)(No. 2) Bill. This is an exceptionally important Bill to provide for the protection of agency workers, to require the principle of equal treatment to be applied in respect of their employment, to make provision for the enforcement of their...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: Of which the Senator is part.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Agency Workers) (12 Mar 2008)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.