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Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Leader for his clarification on that matter. Deputy Ó Ríordáin must have attended the briefing on his own.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It also has been raised by the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, Deputy Mathews and other Fine Gael Members.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I sense a U-turn coming on.

Seanad: HSE National Service Plan: Statements, Questions and Answers (14 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister. I do not think I have had an opportunity before now to congratulate him publicly, although I have done so personally, on his elevation, as one north County Dublin man to another. He now understands how difficult it is to be Minister for Health and perhaps he has some sympathy for his predecessor, Mary Harney, on whom he was particularly hard from time to time,...

Seanad: Food Wastage: Motion (15 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: You are very mean.

Seanad: Food Wastage: Motion (15 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Cuirim fáilte romhat, a Aire. I commend him on the work he has done since his appointment as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. On a personal level, I have been most impressed by his work in regard to fish quotas. His proactivity in that area has been felt very strongly in my constituency in north Dublin and along the east coast. I commend him on the work to date in that...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Last December my party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, tabled an amendment to the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2011 to give the Financial Services Ombudsman the power to name financial institutions in breach of codes of conduct. Members will have seen the report for 2010 which states 7,200 complaints about financial institutions were made by...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is quality, not quantity that counts.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: As leader of a group, he is allowed.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: A Labour Party Lord Mayor.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Labour Party Lord Mayor, Councillor Montague, is on his bike.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator could have raised it yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: There was an entire debate on the issue yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: They were asleep.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I was a local councillor.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should stop. They passed the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: We published a Bill in the Dáil and it was voted down by the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Who are you talking about?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That includes the Northern Bank money so Deputy Cullinane should relax. That was £1 million, and all the money in the United States also.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Unrequited love.