Results 1,701-1,720 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: If a prisoner breaks the terms of the transfer on release, then the Minister can do so.
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: We are beyond that.
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: It was not always so.
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: That is right.
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: I thank all the contributors to this debate, including the Minister. It was an excellent debate. While we disagree on this issue, because it is a matter of strategy and of principle, all of the voices of constitutional politics in this House should be heard on this issue. It is not and was never the intention of our group in putting forward this motion to divide the House on a spurious matter...
- Seanad: Good Friday Agreement: Motion. (19 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: It was in Northern Ireland. If the Minister has evidence that any of the 55 people released in this State have been involved in the type of criminality that he has rightly put on the record of this House, I advise him to test it in the courts. These people have already got away with murder. It would be adding insult to injury if they were allowed to be involved in smuggling, racketeering and...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: The Leader probably noted the breach of security in the House of Commons yesterday. I wonder if she feels under possible attack from the benches behind me today.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: It reminds us of our own mortality.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: Yes indeed. In politics, that is the maxim. It is time we had a debate on the ever-worsening crisis in the Middle East. Yesterday and last week we saw a new low in terms of attacks by the Israeli Army on an innocent civilian population in Gaza. Can we remind the Israeli Government that well over 70% of the Israeli people want the occupied territories handed back to the Palestinian people and...
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: The Minister is President of the EU Council of Ministers. He has expertise and knowledge and has worked with other countries in trying to find a solution in the Middle East. We need statements on this issue. Europe needs to have its voice heard in this regard and I urge that statements be made on the matter as soon as possible.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: They are guilty of other charges.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: So much for "fidelity to the nation".
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: Tom will fix it.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: Correct.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad. (20 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: The cooking is better at home.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: I understand the urgency with which the Government is bringing forward these two legislative measures. One in particular about which there has been a degree of discussion is the issue of compellability and changing the 1997 Act to allow judges to be compelled to attend a committee of the House to give evidence. While it is important the Bill is passed tomorrow, I ask the Leader to ensure it...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: He is being forced to go slower.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (26 May 2004)
Brian Hayes: There are a few more announcements where that came from.