Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,677 for speaker:Ned O'Sullivan

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I call on Senator Feighan who has eight minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Let me preface my two short questions with a comment, which I hope the Chairman will allow as I have not taken up too much time to date. I have the utmost confidence in Senator Catherine Noone as Chairman, and I believe any reasonable person who has been watching these proceedings since their commencement will share that view. On a personal level, I object most strongly to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: The word "report" is not the word I had in mind. If I used it, I was mistaken. I asked whether Dr. Henchion would consult or engage with those agencies, because I am sure they also have the health of that woman uppermost in their minds. Maybe the IFPA would not have all the facilities that would be available to the statutory agencies such as the HSE. I am somewhat surprised that Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank Dr. Henchion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank Deputy Troy. I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution which is meeting next door so I will have to leave. I might not be able to stay for the responses but I will note them when I get them. I warmly welcome Mr. McGarry and congratulate him on his appointment. I know a great deal about Shannon Foynes Port Company because, in one guise or...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: There is only so much she can take.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Will the Leader arrange for a debate in the House on tourism, in particular a discussion on how tourism is being affected by Brexit? Perhaps the Minister, Deputy Ross, might come in and outline what strategy, if any, he has to deal with the continual and worrying slide in visitor numbers from the UK to this country. The latest CSO figures confirm the bad news and the trend which has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I echo everything Deputy Chambers has said. Any time the question of abortion has come into the Oireachtas, and I am in my eleventh year, everybody prefaces the debate by saying that we will be reasonable and sensitive and act with responsibility. All these pious statements are made. However, this committee has experienced very little of that. In fact, I must say that some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the witness and thank her for the clarity of her responses. I join with recent speakers in acknowledging the service that her agency provides to a great number of Irish citizens, women and their partners, service which for a range of reasons are not available here. I want to clarify an area that was covered by Deputy Bríd Smith. On the matter of Irish women having surgical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank Dr. Lohr.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome Ms McDermott. I am very thankful that she came before us and she has certainly given us much to think about. I hope that her presence here and the reception that she has received from all of the committee members will encourage other witnesses who have declined our invitation to perhaps reconsider and come before us so that we get the broadest possible range of views presented to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Does Ms McDermott not see the corollary between someone trying to force her to do something that was totally against her wishes in relation to John and the person who has no choice at present in this country about taking another decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: It was directive counselling.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: No. 1 is statements on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills report on the eligibility of maintenance grants to students - Wake-up SUSI. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, to the House. I invite the Minister of State to make her opening statement.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: This Chamber has no direct communication with the Dáil Chamber. Perhaps one of the Minister of State's officials will notify her. This is a separate Chamber. I am sure they will send for her.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but I wish to put her mind at ease. I have just learned that there has been a change and the votes the Minister of State was expecting will not now be taking place right now.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Tá fáilte romhat.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State again but contrary to what I just told her, it seems there is a vote. It is not the normal vote that she was anticipating but another vote in the Dáil on an amendment to the Finance Bill which she may have to attend.

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I ask the acting Leader to suspend-----

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Very good.