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Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: I have it before me.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: It would be worthwhile for the House to give some consideration to discussing the early section of the Constitution, which determines the name of this country. I was reared in a house where it was thought to be demeaning for people of other countries, particularly our next door neighbours, to refer to us in English as Éire. Éamon de Valera when Taoiseach introduced a Constitution that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: It is a long established precedent that the Cathaoirleach gets a copy of the Minister's speech and any other speech at all times. The rules of procedure are clear. If a person even raises an issue or item, it must be presented to the Cathaoirleach. That the same Senator would refer last night to the comings and goings of Members who were attending committee meetings or were in their offices...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: It is also unacceptable that the long-established rota of speakers agreed to within and between groups should be perverted. People who have been Senators for the past three years should know the rules of the House by now. Perhaps people need to be reminded again but most of us know how the rules operate. If we do not, we ask some of our colleagues who have been here longer. I found last...

Seanad: Brand Name of Dingle. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Tá an moladh seo chomh scannalach le rud ar bith atá déanta againn ó thaobh airgead a chur amú, airgead a thig linn a infheistiú ar son mhuintir na Gaeltachta nó ar son na Gaeilge. Conas mar a tharla nach bhfuil a gcearta daonlathacha ar fáil do mhuintir Chorca Dhuibhne agus muintir Dhaingean Uí Chúis sa nGaeilge? An gcuimhin leis an Aire 40 bliain ó shin nuair a rinne an Bhreatain...

Seanad: Brand Name of Dingle. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Bhí 3,000 ceist eile le cur os comhair an Aire.

Seanad: Brand Name of Dingle. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Tá an tAire ag dul i gciorcal; níl sé ag baint leis an argóint ar chor ar bith. An loighic atá ráite aige, má tá sé le rá ag muintir Dhún Chaoin gur sin ainm na háite, sin mar is fearr leo é. An deacracht anseo ná má tá muid sásta dul sa dtreo sin, cén fáth nach mbeidh an rogha ag muintir na háite i ngach áit, the 3,515 of them, an logainm céanna a bheith acu agus ansin...

Seanad: Brand Name of Dingle. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: And we argued about it for weeks.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal Reports: Motion. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: I will speak from the point of view of my great admiration for gardaí. My father was a garda and a founder member of the GRA. I was raised with that culture and I have not left it. I support the local gardaí. It pains me to see the way gardaí have been dragged down by the events in Donegal. It has been appalling beyond our wildest expectations. It has been worse than I could ever have...

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: We debated the OECD report on third level education one month to six weeks ago. The debate was a good one but the issue was not debated elsewhere. In the same week as that report's publication, the OECD published a report on child care that was not discussed anywhere. Senator O'Meara raised the matter of the NESF report yesterday. She has also raised related issues occasionally. It would be...

Seanad: Grangegorman Development Agency Bill 2004: Second Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire, agus fáiltím go mór roimh an Bhille seo. Tá an-jab oibre déanta ag an Roinn. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach, agus tá sé thar am go mbeadh sé againn. Tá súil agam go n-eireoidh go mór leis an Bhille agus an institiúid amach anseo. I want to make a number of points, one or two of which Senators might have heard me make before. I must bore them...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joe O'Toole: Approximately one month ago I asked the Leader for a debate on both parts of the Morris tribunal report and she indicated she would be happy to accommodate that request. A debate during Private Members' business tomorrow night will not allow enough time to deal with the issues. The matters raised in the Morris report must be discussed seriously. If the Garda Commissioner had not taken any...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, to the House. The particularly strong language of the motion is to be welcomed also, encompassing as it does a clear commitment from the Government. I am happy to support it. The most worrying aspect of Sellafield is that the problem cannot be solved in our lifetimes. No matter what we do, there will...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: There is certainly no environmental argument in its favour. Nothing is as likely to drive Irish people mad as listening to the polite, plummy accents of people from Sellafield who try to tell us that there is no environmental risk from the plant and that nuclear energy is a safe and environmentally clean way of producing electricity. That argument does not work. Sellafield is the dominant...

Seanad: Nuclear Plants: Motion. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: It is not difficult to address that. If the output of wind farms was tied into the national grid, we could supply at least 70% of Irish energy needs. Britain could do the same and that would be end of the anti-wind energy arguments.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: He also pays his taxes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: I could not agree more with Senator Brian Hayes on the issue of non-residents. I have raised it many times previously. The House should know the way those people living abroad are playing ducks and drakes with the scheme. If one flies into the country in one's private jet to do a day's business and then, like Cinderella, be out of the country by 12 o'clock, it is not counted as a day for...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: The Senator should wait until after the election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2005)

Joe O'Toole: I also welcome the commitment given by the Leader on the forthcoming debate on the Disability Bill. It is crucially important that Members be able to deal with the issues that have been raised repeatedly over the past two years by various groups and individuals. As regards the tragedy in County Meath, after the Omagh bombing I visited some of the schools whose pupils had been killed in the...