Results 981-1,000 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Even half an hour.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Is that the first one or the one the current Government agreed to last July?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government restricted him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The Minister now has to extend the time. He was the one who restricted the tribunal. We are proven correct.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I asked about the expenditure review.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: That is fine but I asked-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I am just trying to be helpful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: In light of the Leader's commitment that the Minister for Education and Skills will come to the House when the report has been read, I withdraw my amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The clock starts now. First, I want to correct the record of the House. Last week I raised the matter of student fees and the fact that Labour Youth and Labour Party Members were not at the march. I am happy to correct the record of House in that the national chairperson of Labour Youth contacted me to tell me that there were some members of Labour Youth at the march. I commend them for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that the Labour Party leader, Deputy Gilmore, and the leader of the Labour Party group in the Seanad, Senator Bacik, on 19 February 2011 promised that the Labour Party would not agree to a child benefit cut.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: We can paper the walls with all these promises they have made. What is the position on child benefit? Will the Leader confirm that the Government will not cut child benefit to hard-pressed families?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business, to call on the Minister for Health to attend the House today to tell us what the Government is doing in respect of the 120 State run community nursing homes, including the home in Abbeyleix and St. Brigid's in Dublin. I want him to confirm that it is not Government policy to close all these community run beds for the elderly. There...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I would like the Government to keep its promises - that is all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I do. No cuts in child benefit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Or Enda Kenny on his hair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: What is the Senator's constituency?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: A four-year plan has been published.