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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I call for an urgent debate on the document.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: With respect, instead of being called, Putting People First, it should be called ?Putting Labour First?.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Ireland's system is different from the British system. People here will be under-represented.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: On 10 July last, in reply to a question in the House from my colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, the Taoiseach admitted for the first time that the Fianna Fáil-led Government had no option but to enter into the bank guarantee scheme. I am glad the Taoiseach repeated that on television yesterday. It should be put on the record that the question was first raised in this House by Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: The drugs that were sold in those head shops are now being sold from the backs of cars and in side streets. The local Garda drugs units do not have the funding to go after these individuals who, despite the legislation, continue to make money and cause serious illness for a large number of people throughout the country. I again call for a debate on the funding provided to the Department of...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Yesterday, Senator Reilly and I informed the Deputy Leader and others that yet another factory, Co-operative Poultry Products Limited in Cootehill, County Cavan, had gone into receivership on Monday last, potentially threatening 90 jobs. Unfortunately, yesterday evening those jobs were lost and the 90 workers were informed. They have been forced into occupying the factory to ensure they...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Gilroy can outline how good the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, is.

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy White, to the House. He is here almost as often as when he was a Senator.

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy White, to the House. He is here almost as often as when he was a Senator.

Seanad: National Dementia Strategy: Motion (24 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I endorse everything Senators Leyden and Mullins said about the forthcoming children's rights referendum. We will have public meetings in Cavan and Monaghan next Tuesday and Wednesday and we are out canvassing people as well to try to get this referendum passed with as large a majority as possible. Like Senator Barrett, I was amazed to hear this morning that tens of thousands of people who...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I endorse all of what Senator Eamonn Coghlan said on bullying. I commend the many Members who have raised this issue for several months. I also agree with Senators MacSharry, Ó Murchú and Mullen on the dangerous and illegal activities carried out by some family planning clinics in this State. As Senator Ó Murchú stated, it is malpractice and, as Senators MacSharry and Mullen said,...

Seanad: Social Welfare Appeals System: Motion (7 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister to the House.

Seanad: Social Welfare Appeals System: Motion (7 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: The Minister to continue, without interruption.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Last Friday, an honourable and decent man was jailed by the High Court for contempt of court. I do not want to interfere with court decisions, but I think it is important to ask that Ministers refrain from making public comment on Seán Quinn or members of the Quinn family. This is a delicate situation that involves not only the Quinn family but many thousands of ordinary workers. I ask...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: Putting Labour first.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the apology given by the Minister for Education and Skills in the Lower House yesterday to the tens of thousands of young people affected by the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, debacle. Will the Leader ask the Minister if it will hand back the Taoiseach's innovation award it received prior to the SUSI system going live on 11 June? It seems it is such a marvellous success...

Seanad: Civil Defence Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, to the House.

Seanad: Civil Defence Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Nov 2012)

Diarmuid Wilson: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?