Results 281-300 of 955 for speaker:Terry Brennan
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Terry Brennan: Not at all. Senator Wilson knows more about meters than I ever will.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Terry Brennan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire ar ais go dtí an Seanad. Regarding metering, the lifespan of meters and why it is important to have them installed, most meters are expected to last considerably longer than the manufacturer's 15-year design life rating for the product. Experience in the UK has shown that meters installed more than 20 years ago are still operating. I could take the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Terry Brennan: I have often raised the issue of fuel laundering. At the time, it related to the question of the number of containers of sludge being deposited on the roads of north Louth and Monaghan, but the situation has grown more serious. We do not know the quantity of sludge that is being dumped into the tributaries, rivers and lakes that, as Senator Jim D'Arcy mentioned, comprise the main source of...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: How many people have-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Níl aon rud le rá agamsa faoin alt seo. Suffice to say that I have never been to a fortune-teller. I do not know whether anyone else has been, but I have never listened to so many fortune-tellers as in this House, speaking about how Irish Water should be operated or the difference between customers and clients. The person who pays the bill is the customer and that customer might...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Some 50% of them are anonymous.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: I am in the wrong seat.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Nobody interrupt-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Once in a blue moon.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Who will maintain it?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: You are the only person who mentioned a liability. I asked you who will maintain it.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Fair enough. Caithfidh mé dul abhaile. Níl mé ábalta éisteacht leis.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Who maintains the asset?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Through the Chair, who maintains the networks?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: That is rubbish. The Senator has not got a clue what he is talking about.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: There is a way.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: The ESB.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: I welcome the recent announcement by the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ring, that an allocation will be made to sporting bodies and organisations as part of the 2014 Supplementary Estimate for the Department. The Estimate provides for funding in a number of areas that will support our athletes at home and as they travel abroad to compete on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry: Discussion (17 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: I stay in the same room every week. There was a 250% increase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry: Discussion (17 Dec 2014)
Terry Brennan: Again, my main point is on hotel prices. I stayed in Dublin 137 or 138 nights last year, I am not sure what it is this year. I interviewed someone who came here for the Web Summit and stayed on the same hotel floor as me. He paid 330% more than I did the previous week and the following week. I was put out of my hotel but I did what I thought was the right thing and moved. It cannot be...