Results 22,461-22,480 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is the Government's policy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: They set it up as a private entity, separate-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is their problem. They made the mess. They should clean it up and stop blaming everyone else for it. That does not wash any more.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: They have been in government for three and a half years and they are still not used to it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government has to take responsibility.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not get an answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Leader's facts are not the facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: There are many of them at senior level.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: There should be two states.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Is it not an issue then?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Well then get to the point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: That is fantastic.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is on its way out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: No problem. There is nothing to see here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Colleagues may remember a very worthy fund-raising campaign that was all over Facebook during the summer, namely the ice bucket challenge, in which thousands of people participated. Last night I noted that a new campaign has started on Facebook which probably marks the beginning of the end of water charges. People are now nominating each other to burn their Irish Water packs. That campaign...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: No, on Facebook. Fewer than 500,000 people have submitted their information. News of major data protection breaches by Irish Water was verified last night. Ten cases involving individuals' personal bank details being sent to third parties have gone to the Data Protection Commissioner. The reason for all of this is because the Government tried to set up a utility without allowing enough...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government has to realise it is not going to get its way. Instead of blaming executives and staff in Irish Water, it should take responsibility for the cack-handed way in which it tried to establish the company over the advice of independent consultants. As Senator O'Donnell called for yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government needs to come into the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I apologise but this is important. I am calling on Sinn Féin - because I am sure it has not done it - to clarify whether the Garda Síochána and the PSNI are aware of the names of all the people that the IRA interrogated and sent away from their communities, including paedophiles and sex offenders. There could be people living in communities in Dublin, Cork, Monaghan, Belfast...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: This is something that needs to be dealt with as a matter of urgency and I call on Sinn Féin to give its commitment that it will provide the list of people it dealt with or against whom accusations were made to the proper authorities both in the North of Ireland and in the Republic.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is nothing to do with that.