Results 25,541-25,560 of 27,272 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Say that with a straight face.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: It has taken the Leader only six months to tell the House the arrangements he has made for a discussion on mortgages. I was going to raise this issue again. While I might be boring, I am at least consistent, because what we have seen in the most recent mortgage figures is that close to 10% of all residential mortgages on principal private residences are in arrears for more than 90 days. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not need to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Can the Senator explain what is happening at the moment?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: She is a professor of history as well now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Local authorities run by the Labour Party and Fine Gael.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Wear and tear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He should have chosen a national station to get the message out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Consumers will be paying 6% in interest on it per year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Are we going to be charged interest?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Why?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: There would not be a quango and it would not be privatised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I was only a lowly insurance clerk but what do I know about business? I thank the Minister of State for his most comprehensive contribution. I believe that Private Members' time for Government Members is much better served by the production of legislation, rather than simply discussing motions in the Chamber. I acknowledge that many good ideas have been put forward. Successive...
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not believe anyone agrees with that point and the Minister of State should get his officials to provide him with the real figures in this regard. Second, I refer to lending. While I acknowledge this also was the case under the previous Government, all Members are aware there is not a rat's chance in hell that AIB or Bank of Ireland will have hit their 2011 lending targets to the SME...
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: It is a nonsense and will be proved as such.
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Unless it is made easier and cheaper for people and businesses to operate-----
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----particularly when they do not receive the credit which should be available, we can have these motions every day of the week and they will not make a difference.
- Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister for State for her earlier responses. I wish to ask a question that is supplementary to those I asked previously and which follows on from Senator Denis Landy's contribution. The Minister of State has said the categorisation has been completed for this year. While I do not like this, I understand the Department's point of view. However, I wonder about cases in which...
- Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Would it be fair to say that the guidelines will be available before the summer?