Results 1,361-1,380 of 1,714 for speaker:John Dardis
- Seanad: Port Development. (27 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: The Senator may not go into that matter now.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: The Senator, without interruption.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: Senator Ryan should not provoke interruption.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: I take it the Senator is speaking to the Bill.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: I believe we have heard this speech before.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: Is the Senator speaking to Senator Coghlan's Bill?
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: I thought there were candidates in every constituency.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: The Senator's time â including injury time â has concluded.
- Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: The Senator must conclude.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: Senator Ryan and I agree on one particular aspect of this matter, which is that it is not simple. The House has an good tradition of debating extremely difficult and sensitive moral issues without heat and in a balanced and fair way. I particularly recall when the all-party committee reported on the matter of the X case and abortion. We must be careful in our use of language and our...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: Therefore, I defend the right of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, to state what he did. In addition, the Minister was adamant that his view was not that represented by the headline in the newspaper. That assertion was subsequently endorsed by the journalist, who replied to the matter. We must be extremely careful about these matters. Serious ethical and moral...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: He will be staying in the Great Southern Hotel.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jun 2006)
John Dardis: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: They should invest in credit card companies.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: They are all dead.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: Is the amendment being pressed?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: With regard to the second report of the Commission on Electronic Voting, at least Senator Brian Hayes quoted it accurately, unlike Senator Ryan, who gave us populist soundbites. Notwithstanding that it was fairly painful for candidates to have what happened in one constituency happen to them, I am sure some of the candidates who had to endure four days of counting might take a different view...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: The report is over 350 pages long and is worthy of debate in the House. Everybody will have to sign up for it eventually, if it is to be generally accepted in the country. That is self evident. The methodology used to do that can be argued over but it is up to the parties to discuss the way forward on the matter. The report states that "when compared with paper voting, electronic voting...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: This would underline the fact that this is a knowledge-based economy and that is the way forward.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Jul 2006)
John Dardis: On the point made by Senator O'Toole about An Taisce, it would appear that some people in this country would like to see the development of a rural zoo that they can visit at weekends but which has nobody living in it. Those of us who live in the rural zoo would like to be able to continue to do so ââ