Results 241-260 of 955 for speaker:Terry Brennan
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Monuments (18 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: King John's Castle in Carlingford is a very strategic edifice which is visited by thousands of tourists each year. The Minister of State's predecessor, Brian Hayes, who is now an MEP, visited the castle and acknowledged the fact that the local heritage trust in Carlingford was prepared to include visits to it on its heritage trail. As the Minister of State is aware, Carlingford is a...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Monuments (18 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: That is great news, and I am very pleased to hear it. I should have acknowledged at the outset the significant works done by the Office of Public Works, OPW, from the 1950s to date and I compliment it on the condition of the castle. It is great news that the Minister believes works will commence in the summer. I know the difficulty involved, and restoring the original entrance to the...
- Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I congratulate Senators Power, van Turnhout and Healy Eames on progressing this very important Bill to where it is today. Many of my colleagues have mentioned genetic issues, how important our medical history is and the right to know it. I appreciate and recognise the difficulties for some mothers. Some might want their right to privacy and to remain anonymous and this has been the...
- Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: More than 20 years.
- Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: Ceapaim féin gur lá an-stairiúil é seo do Seanad Éireann. Tá an Teachta Séamus Ó Dálaigh sa Seomra. Tá áthas orm é a fheiceáil sa Teach seo. I will tell colleagues my story. I was adopted also, and I will never forget who adopted me. The Senators who proposed the Bill should be very proud, and I encourage the Minister to do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: Mr. Kavanagh mentioned the benefit of four airlines jointly selling seats on the same aircraft using a partnership approach. How will the consumer benefit? Let me give my own experience from three weeks ago-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I have been sitting here for the past hour. I was the first person to come to the meeting and I am the second last to speak. That will never happen to me again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: Others have spoken for five or six minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I have a question that has not been asked by anybody else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: How many members did the Chairman interrupt before me? The answer is not a single one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I will not fall out with the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I will ask the question. I travel to America every year to visit family on a direct flight to Atlanta, Georgia. When I was booking the flight three weeks ago, my daughter asked whether I would fly with Air France because the ticket would cost €600 less, even though I would be taking the same Delta flight from Dublin to Atlanta. I consider Delta to offer the most direct route to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: There is a big saving to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I cannot win.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: Was there a miscommunicatoin between the partners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: It is a true example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: Should I be advocating a takeover by IAG?
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I, too, spoke to the protestors outside. Mrs. Brennan - of course, the name was good and I had to make it my business to talk to her - had concerns about speeding in housing estates. I have been campaigning for the past 15 years, both at local authority level and in the Seanad. Speed limit signs anywhere are a complete and utter waste of money and time. There is only one way to reduce the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: The community there works together as we did where I come from in Carlingford. We should encourage other communities to follow in the footsteps of the Loop Head community.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)
Terry Brennan: I welcome the announcement this week by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather Humphreys, of funding of €624,000 for the upgrade and protection of heritage buildings under the structures at risk fund 2015. This fund is used to safeguard heritage structures in private and civic ownership. Continuing the scheme this year will allow individuals, heritage...