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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Leader should stop. He gave a very good answer on the special advisers. He should not ruin it.

Seanad: Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister has not been contactable for a few weeks now.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Leader will agree that this House has a good track record in upholding human rights and highlighting human rights abuses across the world. In that regard, I am honoured to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Dr. Nada Dhaif, one of the Bahraini doctors sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the regime in that country, simply for providing medical treatment for persons protesting for human...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It would be a very good Adjournment debate matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I have no doubt that will go into the Galway Advertiser straight away.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na daltaí, tuismuitheoirí agus múinteoirí ó Ghaelscoil Brian Boróimhe i Sord Cholmcille. I ask the Leader what progress, if any, he or the Deputy Leader made with the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste on the upcoming trial in Bahrain of the 20 doctors who are being tried again in civilian court. I was pleased yesterday that across the House, Members from...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Will the Senator please relax for a minute.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Yesterday, the Taoiseach made a couple of disparaging remarks in the other House in response to my party leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, about the bank guarantee. He misled the House yesterday when he said there was no file, or a file may have been shredded, on the documentary evidence given to the Minister for Finance at the time in respect of the decision that had to be taken to bring...

Seanad: Business Undertakings (Disclosure of Overpayments) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I commend Senator Rónán Mullen for preparing and bringing the Bill before the House. It is an interesting debate and I thank the Minister for his considered and thought provoking response. He has made a fair point in noting the task he faces in reducing the regulatory burden on business, especially the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. In this instance, it is necessary to balance...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I am glad to hear some of my colleagues are on board in my campaign to halt the monster sewage treatment plant project in north County Dublin. Perhaps the reason is boundary reviews are are due to be undertaken soon. I raised the matter with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, in a good debate on public expenditure a number of months ago in which he...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Leader to request the Tánaiste to come to the House to clarity the position and state whether the programme for Government still stands. As the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, will be in the House to take the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011, I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that we allow him 30 minutes to update us on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I have a problem with her preferred choice of leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is only friendly advice.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Will the Senator tell that to the chairman of her party?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: We will bide our time.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: He is chairman of the Labour Party. He is not just some innocuous backbencher. Perhaps he is.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps the Taoiseach should ring Chancellor Merkel to hear what she says.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Derry City Council.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: What about the promises in the programme for Government?

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That is excellent. I will sleep well tonight.