Results 141-160 of 6,020 for speaker:Martin Conway
- Seanad: Public Policy and Planning: Statements (13 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I am not sure he wants them.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: Like other speakers, I would like to express my good wishes to those living in Priory Hall in Dublin. It is appalling that people have to move out of their homes because of faulty building standards. It is symptomatic of what took place in this country over the past ten to 15 years, when there was very light regulation of myriad sectors. It is a shame to say that four or five years ago...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: We would consider Senator Leyden.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I join other speakers in voicing my concern at the loss of 1,000 jobs at Aviva. I, together with colleagues, raised the issue three or four weeks ago. It has taken the company that length of time to announce the bad news. The situation has been speculated about, including on Twitter and Facebook, for weeks, which is most inappropriate. For a company of Aviva's size to behave so deplorably...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I am confident there will be plenty of volunteers. Yesterday I raised the issue of the unfortunate situation in north Dublin. It has come to may attention that there may well be other such developments in this city whose status will be adjudicated on in the courts. Will the Leader invite the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, and the Minister of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: Is the Senator voting "Yes" or "No"?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I endorse everything our colleague Senator Mark Daly said. I have a serious problem with the manner in which the Referendum Commission has conducted itself throughout the campaign. It is publicly funded to run a proper campaign, but its advertisements have been pathetic in the extreme.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I am speaking against the amendment but saying the Referendum Commission is publicly funded-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on the performance of the Referendum Commission in the exercise of its duties in the information campaign on the consequences of a "Yes" or a "No" vote. If its campaign were run properly and its advertisements were professional and not pathetic, as they have been, the public would be informed as to the importance of a "Yes" vote in both referendums.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I would like to know the eight former Attorneys General who have made statements on the referendum. Has any of them voluntarily given up his State pensions?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: Yes. I am asking the Leader to arrange a proper debate on the role of the Referendum Commission and how it has conducted itself in respect of the two upcoming referendums, the amount of taxpayers' money spent on funding it, and the advertising agency used by the commission to choreograph and put together its pathetic, appalling advertisements. We need a complete review of the relevant...
- Seanad: Gender-Based Violence: Motion (26 Oct 2011)
Martin Conway: I commend Senator Mullen on highlighting this matter. We seem to be specialising in human rights as our theme for this term. This practice is a complete and total violation of human rights. I will not repeat what my colleagues on all sides of the House have said. The facts speak for themselves. The Government amendment does not name specific countries, but we know which of them are the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: Like other speakers, I am concerned by the bullish and rather bizarre behaviour of the banks on this island. Colleagues on all sides of the House have expressed the frustration felt today by ordinary mortgage holders at the arrogance of financial institutions refusing to do what they would certainly have done if the interest rate change had gone the other way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: I take the opportunity to remind these institutions that, somewhat like the State, they no longer have independence. We own these institutions. When the Taoiseach expresses his wish that the rate change be passed on, it should be done immediately.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: We should not require-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: I am coming to my question, but I ask the Cathaoirleach to give me first a chance to make my point. The Minister for Finance should, in the next 24 hours, summon all the so-called public interest, non-executive directors in the various institutions which have failed to pass on the ECB interest rate cut announced last Friday-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: -----and demand to know when it will be passed on. If they fail to do so, I join other colleagues in calling for emergency legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: Perhaps it might be useful if the Leader were to summon the chairpersons of the various institutions for a debate in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: At the end of the day, we own the banks. On a separate issue, will the Leader secure an inventory of all assets now in the control of the National Asset Management Agency? It is most worrying to discover that the agency has in its possession helicopters, livestock, cars and other so-called assets.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Martin Conway: These items should be sold as a matter of urgency.