Results 1,341-1,360 of 11,812 for speaker:Denis O'Donovan
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: No amendments have been tabled.
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Yes. Question put and agreed to. Section 3 agreed to.
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Darragh O'Brien is wandering from the subject.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Yet we are all equally good souls.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I cannot rule on that as it is a hypothetical question. I will allow Senator Coghlan to proceed.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Can we stick to the prayer?
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I acknowledge the confusion created when I put the question while in the Chair. Like a pause for prayer, a few seconds passed before anyone indicated a desire to speak. I never envisaged that 12 or 13 Senators wanted to contribute on this issue, but that is their entitlement. I ask the Acting Chairman to use his discretion to put the question again. It would be the fairest way to proceed....
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senator should bear in mind that the Minister is not the line Minister, for whom he is standing in.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly (23 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I am sure the Minister will take the Senator's points on board.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Please allow the Minister to continue, without interruption.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The interruptions and interaction are inappropriate on Second Stage.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I ask the Minister to proceed.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: It might be more appropriate to deal with the matter on Committee or Report Stage.
- Seanad: Committee of Selection (28 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Committee of Selection reports that it has discharged Senator Darragh O'Brien from membership of the Seanad Public Consultation Committee at his own request and has appointed Senator Mark Daly in substitution for him.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The House will now pay tribute to our former colleague, the late Michael Doherty, who was affectionately known as "Mickey".
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I too wish to be associated with the tributes to the late Mickey Doherty, who was a Member of this House from 1987 to 1989. I knew him well as a councillor and met him at several ard-fheiseanna. I did not serve with him; he finished his service here in 1989 and I came into the Seanad later that year. As has been said, he was quite a character with a great sense of humour and turn of wit....
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Before suspending the sitting, I wish to acknowledge and welcome the presence of a Minister from Israel in the Visitors Gallery.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The debate is due to finish at 4.30 p.m. and there are at least four or five Members who want to come in again. I understand Senator Aideen Hayden has not spoken.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Aideen Hayden to continue, without interruption.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: No provocation, please. The Minister should not open up old sores.