Results 22,661-22,680 of 27,272 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not false outrage. I ask Senator Cullinane to withdraw that remark.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not false outrage. How dare he say that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Well, the Senator should.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: He said he did not know whether he believed Maíria Cahill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I believe the Minister for Health is scheduled to come into the House on 4 November next and I ask that he pays particular attention to the issue of medical cards for the over-70s and discretionary medical cards. I wish to bring to the attention of the House that between September 2013 and September 2014, 71,251 medical cards were removed. Of these, over 17,543 were over-70s medical cards....
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: We know why they are not here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I know why they are not here this morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is also a long-standing practice that people would respect the arms and laws of the State. I want to know - perhaps the Leader through the Taoiseach can assist on this - how many paedophiles and rapists they banished to towns and villages all over the Republic of Ireland. How many did they banish? Who are these people? Will they furnish a list of these people to the authorities here?...
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: How would Senator Ó Clochartaigh get a Bill through?
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not aware of many Bills that completed Second Stage and were not subsequently amended on Committee and Report Stages. This Bill makes a start and allowing it to proceed to the next Stage would send out a message to more than 4,500 people in direct provision that the State is doing something and there may be a pathway forward. The Government has not even set a clear timeframe for...
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: Where is he?
- Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan, to the House. I am somewhat puzzled about how and why the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, is not present. I mean no disrespect towards the Minister of State, for whom I have considerable regard. Anyway, I have some idea of why the Minister of State responsible is not here today: it is probably because he...
- Seanad: Recognition of State of Palestine: Motion (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I second the motion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator is missing, which is why it is quiet this week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: I am withdrawing that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: It is Fine Gael policy since 2009. They have been in charge for three and a half years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
Darragh O'Brien: They have been in government for three and a half years.
- 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.