Results 32,681-32,700 of 33,392 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I am struck by the debate taking place on the euro. I spent the past four days in Paris participating in a programme organised by the French Government under which members of various parliaments seek to understand developments in other countries and various views on the euro. On Monday, I spent some time with individuals who were involved in discussions over the weekend on how to handle the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: Will the Leader arrange a debate on the status of Transport 21 and the amazing revelation yesterday regarding the Dublin interconnector or the Dublin underground DART section? The Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, indicated that he had met representatives of Iarnród Éireann very recently and had a discussion with its board but found out for the first time yesterday afternoon on radio...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: This is a €2 billion project. Who is running the delivery of transport services in Dublin? Is it Iarnród Éireann? How can it make a decision on one of most important projects in Transport 21 without the Minister for Transport knowing what is happening? The Minister had to question Iarnród Éireann, but the explanation it gave was simply not credible. As it has not yet submitted the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: There is not much left. It is all gone.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I support Senator Fitzgerald's call for a debate on the situation in Greece. I called for such a debate on the Order of Business every day last week. On Thursday we called a division on an amendment to the Order of Business. A number of months ago the Leader facilitated the Seanad in being the first House of the Oireachtas to debate the situation in Greece in the light of what could happen...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I have called each morning on the Order of Business this week for an urgent debate on what is happening regarding Greece and the eurozone. That was supported yesterday by Senator Twomey. Senators Coffey and Ross made the same points today. Less than a year ago, commentators talked about the PIGS group of economies, which was an awful phrase. Those economies were Portugal, Ireland, Greece...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: It has not been. That is what Deputy Bruton said for the past year. He was rubbished by the Government but it is now considering it.

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Second Stage (29 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the Minister of State and I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is the first time I have addressed the Minister of State since she was appointed to her new post, so I wish her the best of luck. I wish to focus on the cost and business implications of this Bill. Our country is rightly prioritising the smart economy as an engine that will deliver a sustainable economic...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I support the point made by Senator Boyle. I welcome opposition to the Government and especially to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, but the Garda Síochána is charged with implementing the law and should not under any circumstances step into the arena which creates law, which is politics.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: Some of the points in the speech would be investigated by the Garda and for those lines to be blurred is a profound mistake. I say this on behalf of the individual gardaí who had to rush to a gangland murder on Friday night and who stand outside head shops all over Dublin city. Such rank and file members are the people who will suffer from such statements and a line was crossed yesterday...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: the capital city still does not have a high speed integrated and sustainable public transport system to entice commuters from their cars to reliable public transport; Dublin Bus is taking more buses off the road and reducing routes, therefore cutting services to local communities;...

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say that. I made a point of asking the Minister of State to deliver-----

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: -----the same service.

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say "barmy".

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I asked how one could deliver the same service with fewer buses given that the funding to Dublin Bus has doubled. The Minister of State should answer this question. The money Dublin Bus has received since 2000 has doubled from €40 million to €80 million.

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: He is misquoting me. I am taking this as an opportunity to put my question to him again. If he will not answer a point I did not make, then he might answer a point I did.

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: No, we have not advocated that.

Seanad: Smarter Travel Initiative: Motion (28 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2010)

Paschal Donohoe: I call for a debate on a subject that could overshadow many of the themes we are discussing today. I refer to events in Greece on Friday, when a small member state of the European Union announced to the international markets that it believed it would not be able to meet its expenditure and asked member states to support it in an act of solidarity. That event will change the path and choices...