Results 1,001-1,020 of 4,773 for speaker:Paudie Coffey
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: As a Member of the Oireachtas, I welcome scrutiny of local authorities and State agencies. In many of the debates we have held in the past I have noted that local authority executives, including county and city managers, should be subject to the same scrutiny as councillors. However, I have a problem with the cynical way in which the Green Party is using this announcement to make political...
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: What is the Minister talking about? He will introduce the same amendments in the Dáil - he has been forced to do so by his Fianna Fáil colleagues.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: If the Minister goes into that area, he will get his answers.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister and thank the Labour Party for tabling this broad ranging motion which provides us with an opportunity to debate the important matters brought to our focus. As I stated, the motion is broad and encompasses a wide range of issues including water quality, waste management, the environment and legacy sites. While I will not be able to cover all of those issues in eight...
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Boyle is ranting now.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: There are five regional waste management plans in which the provision of an incinerator is proposed.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator should not forget his rural constituents.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Yesterday during an interesting debate in this House on the environment the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, regrettably made an unprecedented attack on the political independence of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security. Senator O'Toole and I, with other Members of the House, are members of that committee which has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: That is not the accusation he made. He condemned the entire committee.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: He wants to put her up for a few days.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: The tent is gone, unfortunately.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Cassidy is patronising the young people and it is most unfair of him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: The Leader is losing confidence by the day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Cassidy should talk to the young people and they will tell him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Cassidy is patronising and inviting comment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: He is being most unfair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Cassidy is being patronising again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: He will not learn.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Senator Cassidy should learn to listen to the people. He has been around too long and does not listen. That is his problem. I will not be patronised. Some people have been around this House for too long and they do not listen and I will tell them so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2010)
Paudie Coffey: Less of the lectures.