Results 3,521-3,540 of 9,140 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What the hell does the Cathaoirleach expect me to do? What does he expect me to do?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For months and months-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have held this motion back for six months.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hang on. I should not be told that it ill behoves us to debate the issue in this way. We have held the motion back for six months.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Six months. This morning I was told that there has been no progress. Nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I know the Leader is not available tomorrow morning. However, Senator Craughwell and I have repeatedly sought a meeting with the Minister of State and we wish to have that meeting. If the Leader can undertake to arrange that meeting for any time this evening-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. I will not divide the House but I wanted to make that point clear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I remind the Leader that we were promised a meeting after Easter. He knows we were promised that meeting.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am going to take a leap of faith and accept that-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----on the basis of the assurance given by the Leader, the meeting will take place by tomorrow morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can the Leader provide an assurance that the meeting will take place within the next 24 hours?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Within the next 24 hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Leader may have spotted a number of families standing outside the building today. They seek to raise awareness of Lyme disease. In my own county of Donegal as many as 60 persons have come forward to highlight the fact that they have been diagnosed with Lyme disease. There is resistance in the community of medical professionals to acknowledge the prevalence of Lyme disease as a real...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Could we get a meeting with the Minister?
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the 1916 medals?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I second Senator Conway-Walsh's proposal to amend the Order of Business. I wish to raise the issue of the history of the State's dealing with white collar crime. It is quite shocking. There were 289 Ansbacher cases and no one prosecuted and there were 3,675 DIRT bogus accounts and no one prosecuted. In regard to the HSBC scandal, 350 Irish persons held accounts amounting to €3.1...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it possible to get a meeting with the Minister of State for the four of us next week?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A meeting for the four of us Senators along with himself.
- Seanad: Areas of Natural Constraint: Statements (24 May 2017)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to first apologise to the Minister for being late. Parents of children with life-limiting illnesses are meeting with leaders of various political parties today and I had to be in attendance at the meeting. The Minister will appreciate why that would have kept me away until now. We need to be frank in this debate, so I will be frank. These payments were originally in Donegal and...