Results 2,361-2,380 of 4,717 for speaker:Martin Mansergh
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: A matter which we do not debate in this House and which we should is the annual commemoration programme part funded by the Department of the Taoiseach. I had the pleasure of being in Letterkenny last week for the launch of fine stamps depicting the flight of the earls. It is very sad that there is no tablet to mark from where the earls embarked on their ship to the Continent in 1607. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: I praised Donegal as well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: I do not recall a debate in the House in the past five years on horticulture or the production of fruit and vegetables. On Senator O'Toole's point, I was shocked that a fine head of Savoy cabbage would fetch only 40 cent from a supermarket. If the argument is that this is what the consumer wants, many people go around supermarket shelves looking for fruit and vegetables that could be grown...
- Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2007: Second Stage (22 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: I welcome this Bill. It is an example of legislation which implements EU directives that have a relatively limited applicability to Ireland, in this case because we are not involved in any serious way in the arms industry. There is more than one dimension to this issue. When such legislation was considered 20 years ago, it was generally looked at solely from the perspective of Irish...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: That is the secular totalitarianism.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: Yes, it is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: That view is rubbish.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: That is exactly what it is doing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: The Minister denied it on "Morning Ireland" this morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: It was the Polish President.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: President.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: When the distinguished speaker addressed the forum, he spoke about combating an avalanche of lies and my reaction to that is: "Welcome to democracy".
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: We have had some examples of that this morning. The Taoiseach made it absolutely clear that he is not trying to rush any referendum and that he wants to achieve maximum consensus.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: The Minister for Transport was unequivocal on the radio this morning about single point tolling.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: I wish to raise another matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: All of us subscribe, although we may have differences of interpretation, to pluralism, which means that we object to any form of theocracy or religious ascendancy but equally to any form of secular totalitarianism. In this country we have a tradition going back 25 years of respect for people's consciences so that when one is talking about pregnancy advisory services, people should not be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: Does Trinity not like elections?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: Is Northern Ireland the internal affairs?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Feb 2007)
Martin Mansergh: Come off it.