Results 1,041-1,060 of 1,094 for speaker:Camillus Glynn

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I strongly support the call for the banning of methadrone. In the United Kingdom, no fewer than 26 people, mostly young, have lost their lives as a result of taking this substance. A Commons committee has recommended that it be made a class B drug, which is a step in the right direction. We are in a race against time and must act with great haste to ensure this substance is put where it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2010)

Camillus Glynn: It is an April fool's joke.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2010)

Camillus Glynn: The Senator is right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: There is some interference.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I strongly support the remarks of Senators O'Toole and Wilson on the announcement of the Minister for Health and Children on head shops. We have the dubious honour in Mullingar of having two such shops, one of which is brazen enough to advertise that it can advise people on how to grow their own products. Such brazenness is unrivalled. I welcome, in particular, the sanctions proposed by...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: The Senator can dream on.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: We all appreciate that, in the current economic climate, many people have needed to take a reduction in wages, including Members of the Houses, the public service in general and the private sector. However, strong evidence suggests that some employers have used the recession to reduce working hours and staff pay unfairly. I have been made aware of a particular instance in which not only...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: Like several of my colleagues on all sides of the House, I am not disposed to any interference to with the old age pension. At issue are the people who built this State. It is not a good thing that they should even be put under the remotest threat of having their old age pensions interfered with in the winter of their years. They contributed to those pensions and worked many years to pay...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: On a number of occasions I have sought a debate on the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on the reform of the electoral system. It is a worthy report and I ask the Leader to invite the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to come to the House to discuss it. When an election is held, there is a barrage of complaints about people being left off...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I strongly support Senators Hannigan and Dearey who spoke about the redress scheme for the victims of Dr. Michael Neary. Some years ago, when I was a member of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, Patient Focus addressed it on the atrocities which had been committed by this individual. What it had to say would be material for a horror film. It is nonsense that women over 40 years of...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 May 2010)

Camillus Glynn: Having viewed the television programme last night I, like other colleagues, am very uncomfortable, to say the least, at what I heard and saw. There is obviously a ploy in regard to what the HSE does relevant to facilities. Local management, including administrative and nursing management, make a request to the HSE for the upgrading of facilities, which does not come about. Subsequently,...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I compliment RTE on the "Prime Time Investigates" programme broadcast last night which brought into clear focus the serious dangers with which our children are confronted, especially children who use the Internet. Regrettably, many towns nationwide were cited as places in which people preyed on young innocent children. It is clear that urgent action must be taken to eliminate this practice....

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I support Senator Mullen's remarks on head shops. Yesterday I raised the issue of three or four young people who had been admitted to Mullingar Regional Hospital over the weekend. I hope to be in a position to inform the House on the nature of the substance involved. Senator Mullen is correct in stating new products are coming on the market which are not covered by legislation. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I agree with Senator Keaveney's remarks on the products that are now being sold in head-shops. I do not know what the legislative position is, but anybody who sells any substance - legally or otherwise - which provokes an adverse reaction, should be held accountable. It is time we had another debate on this issue. There have been some improvements as about 60% of head shops have closed,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: All right-minded people would have to welcome the result of the Saville report and the comments of the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, MP. To some extent, the report is cold comfort to the relatives of the 14 people who were murdered, but there are many more victims, as Senator Harris stated. As to whether the people who committed the Bloody Sunday atrocity should be tried, the answer...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: The same is not occurring now. Most of those persons are never visited. The only people they see are staff.

Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: Gabhaim comhbhrón le baintreach Peter Callanan, Sheila agus a chlann as ucht a bháis. Bhí mé an-chairdiúil leis le fada an lá. I express my sincere sympathy to the Callanan family: Peter's wife, Sheila; his brothers John and Patrick; his sons Gerard, Liam, David and Denis; his daughters Deirdre and Fionnuala; and his extended family. I had many things in common with Peter as we both...

Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after ''Seanad Éireann'' and substitute the following: ''welcomes: — the progress made to date across a broad range of Government policies and programmes which serve to enhance significantly the protections afforded to the Irish environment; — the intention to publish, shortly, the Heads of the Climate Change Bill 2010, which will provide a...

Seanad: Environmental Protection: Motion (23 Jun 2010)

Camillus Glynn: Hear. Hear.