Results 3,361-3,380 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I raised the matter of class sizes with the Leader last week before the story broke in the media because I was suspicious that a timeframe or schedule had not been provided. I requested that the Minister come before the House to explain the situation because this matter is of interest to Members on both sides. There are many variables with which we must deal at this stage. The reality is that...
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The Department of Agriculture and Food is to be congratulated on bringing forward this legislation. I welcome the Minister to the House. This is my first time to engage in debate with her in the House since her appointment and I wish her well in her new responsibilities. I know she will discharge them with energy and commitment, as did her predecessor. In the past ten or 15 years we have been...
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: A current television advertisement for one of the pension companies which shows a vet out in the middle of the night captures my image of friends who are veterinary surgeons. It is superb. The Minister should recognise the issue that was missing from her speech, namely, that we have a duty to win the trust and confidence of the veterinary profession in this legislation. We need ordinary...
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Is that in the Bill?
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: If so, I probably missed that section. Whatever about the membership of the board, the Minister should consider the membership of the board's education committee. I firmly believe that committee should have a majority of members of the profession. The Minister should amend the Bill to allow for that. Such people should be there to work out the relevant educational processes, qualifications...
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The subsection refers to "the nature of the evidence", rather than the evidence. The person should be given the absolute evidence against him or her. The practitioner should not just be entitled to have somebody there representing him or her or be present at the inquiry, but should also be entitled to question the people giving evidence against him or her and to test the evidence. If not, the...
- Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: She would settle for two and a half years.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I cannot imagine the college opposing the common good of the citizenry.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The House should take this opportunity to congratulate and thank the authorities in Trinity College, Dublin, who have indicated that they will co-operate with the Railway Procurement Agency and allow Dublin to get back some of the land Trinity has taken from it in the past 400 years to facilitate the Luas, and who are co-operating with the moving of the railings and walls of the college along...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It is a serious issue. I ask the Leader to convey our thanks to the authorities in Trinity College and to ask the Railway Procurement Agency to be extraordinarily sensitive architecturally in the movement of the walls and railings around Trinity College and that it be done in good taste and with due respect and dignity. I know we dare not touch Trinity College, but it is taking a broad view...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The bridge in Killaloe.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: May we have that in writing?
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well with his new responsibilities. He was quick off the mark in writing to all of us to outline his responsibilities and how he might help us. Speaking very disinterestedly from a party political point of view, I think it was outrageous to amend the motion. I know Senator Dooley has a job to do and he does it very well but this is a most...
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Anecdotally, everybody could bear witness to the points Senator Brian Hayes made. There is not one of us who has not received a formal complaint from a driver or who has not met or does not know somebody who has been through the system. Everything about the car testing arrangement is quantifiable, measurable and recordable. Every day people get houses, boats and aeroplanes surveyed. People...
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: They have got the Minister of State under control. He should be careful.
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I acknowledge that.
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I am concerned about the current situation.
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I made the point that it could.
- Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It is like the traffic, which is not flowing properly. We just acknowledgeââ
- Seanad: National Sports Facilities: Statements. (3 Nov 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I wish to share my time with Deputy Paddy Burke.