Results 25,461-25,480 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: There is no time left on this issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: There is no time. Does the Senator want to tell this to the man who had his house repossessed yesterday for arrears of â¬50,000?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Tell him the Government is doing something.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: There is a lack of policy and action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps he will support my call for the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, to come into the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Well done. The Senator is on message. That will solve many problems.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: What about inviting the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, or the Minister for Finance back to the House?
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: They will not be here to discuss the issue of mortgage arrears.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the fact we are debating this issue. It is very important that the true message goes out about the nature of this. While I understand Senator Michael D'Arcy's comments on consequences, I do not think the purpose of the public debate on this should be about what will happen if people do not vote for the treaty. I put it to colleagues that the negotiations that led us to our...
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not often I agree with her.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Excellent. We have moved on.
- Seanad: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (14 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: That is quite all right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: The Leader will be aware that it is more than five months since the residents of Priory Hall had to leave their homes. Those residents have also been waiting five months for a meeting with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Taoiseach. Unfortunately, as residents of Priory Hall waited outside the Department of the Taoiseach today, their request for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I urge my colleagues on the other side of the House to look at the list. I believe the Minister is due to visit the House in April. There is a great deal in his grand master plan, and I welcome much of it because any school that requires a building should get it. However, the Minister should state that it is actually a reduction of â¬400 million in the capital programme, and a reduction...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: You did.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: That is probably why we need a debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Is the Senator being colloquial again?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: How many of these schools have already been built?