Results 26,521-26,540 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Today is 15 September.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: How many debates on Bills have been guillotined so far in this Seanad?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Leave it at that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: A fee of â¬50 to start with.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I will be strenuously opposing the Order of Business on the basis that the debate on the first Bill to be taken in this session is to be guillotined. This is a Bill that we would probably normally reluctantly support, given that the insurance compensation fund needs to be replenished-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, but the problem is that there is no timeline set in the Bill. An open-ended levy of 2% is to be introduced on all non-life assurance policies and the position is not even to be reviewed. We were talking yesterday about improvements to the way we did our business in the Seanad, yet all Stages of the first finance Bill are to be taken in one day. I am, therefore, strenuously opposing...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I have rarely, if ever, interrupted the Senator. This is not the way to do business. This is an important Bill which provides for an extra charge for hundreds of thousands of people. The charge is probably necessary to replenish the insurance compensation fund, but this is not the way to do business in the House. I hope we will not see the debate on any further Bills being guillotined in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator cannot keep trotting out that garbage. The Labour Party and Fine Gael have a programme for Government and have reneged on practically every promise made.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Does she wish to talk about-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Why is the debate to be guillotined and why is there no timeline?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: The House will push through the legislation in one day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Will more guillotines be applied?
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: As I do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, that is the reason my party introduced the insurance compensation fund.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Having not yet had an opportunity to do so, I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. I have no doubt he will do well in his new position. Given that we all agree that the horticulture and food sector is an important driver of economic recovery, why is the Government permitting Teagasc to close its horticultural research institute in Kinsealy, the only one of its kind in Ireland? Why...
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I was asking in the context of research. I know the education side is not there.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: I did ask specifically why the Government did not publish the advice given to it by the Department with regard to the imposition of the private pensions levy which is funding the jobs initiative.
- Seanad: Innovation at the Heart of the Jobs Challenge: Statements (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Not really.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.