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Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: -----every single day. We got 19% of the vote.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: As far as I am concerned we have used that mandate to the maximum.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: Today, the man is in the building. I will leave it at that.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: The man is in the building and the Senators should think about that fact.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: There is a seagull looking in the window at the Senator. He would want to be careful.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: On that note, I will proceed. I would like to add my voice to the good wishes for our golfer, Paul Dunne. Senator Coghlan admitted that he did not know much about him and neither did I until this week. It is fantastic that somebody has come up through the ranks. The president of his club in Wicklow was speaking on the radio this morning and described him as the boy wonder. Hopefully,...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: On our last day I wish to say I am delighted with the report card Senator O'Brien gave the Government today. It was honest and his recognition of all the work the Government has done and is going to do-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: I have loads of things to say. Senator O'Brien has gone up in my estimation massively.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: I will be spending my time in Ireland on a staycation but I will be relying on the geographical knowledge of my colleagues around the country to take me to the various boreens where councillors live. I hope Members will support me.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: I am delighted with the leaked announcement that the Government is moving towards increasing the minimum wage. It will mean an awful lot to a large number of workers. I cannot get over the crocodile tears from ISME and other organisations who say the sky will fall in on top of them if they have to give somebody an extra 50 c an hour. What about IKEA, which has gone one better? It is...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: I spoke on the issue in its broadest sense on Committee Stage. Today, I express my concerns. The last speaker referred to Merck Sharp & Dohme. I was reared in the valley where Merck Sharp & Dohme still exists. It is an excellent employer in County Tipperary and employs approximately 350 people in high-quality jobs. However, during the almost 20 years of Hanrahan v. Merck...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Denis Landy: Then along came the EPA. Previously, the local authorities, which were self-regulating, gave licences to companies such as Aughinish Alumina and Merck Sharp & Dohme and monitored them annually. Then the State decided that we needed an agency to do the monitoring and take it from the local authorities. At the time, I thought it was a very good idea, given that it would remove local...

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: Am I seconding the motion?

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: Hear, hear.

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: I second the motion. I am old enough to remember the ambulance chasing that went on in the 1980s and 1990s, and the State's consideration of the situation pertaining to claims against it. It was against that backdrop that the State Claims Agency was established in 2000 under the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. The purpose set out then was: to manage personal injury, property...

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: The Senator's canvassing of the council has started here.

Seanad: State Claims Agency: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: Hear, hear. That is very good.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: Is Senator Leyden being serious?

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend him on his response earlier today regarding the commencement of the Construction Contracts Act 2013. I have an interest in the matter and the Minister of State's response was full and emphatic. I am sure that progress will be made shortly. I welcome the representatives of Friends of the Earth to the Chamber for this debate. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister of State and acknowledge that he took up his current portfolio when the greyhound industry was a basket case, and there is no saying otherwise. He took on this portfolio, grasped the nettle and initiated the Indecon report. The turnover of the tote was €50 million in 2006 but it dropped to €20 million in 2013. Bord na gCon has put forward its strategic...