Results 3,541-3,560 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I will defer moving the amendment until tomorrow to see how matters develop. However, it is not enough for one person from each group to deal with this information.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Everybody should have the opportunity to contribute to the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Regarding the Cathaoirleach's earlier ruling on the matter which we should not discuss, it was a very bad motion and an equally bad amendment. We should call it a draw. The record of the House will show that it was won twice; both sides won and they were as bad as each other. Perhaps we should leave it at that. I ask the Cathaoirleach to reconsider the issue just raised. It is absolutely...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: There is no party issue involved here. No one on this side is more concerned about this question than anybody on the Government side. I concede that point, since everyone has the same view on the matter. Whereas the Cathaoirleach is absolutely right that it would be inappropriate to discuss the issue and the person, it is crucial that we discuss the procedure. I want to know what is a fair...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: In deference to the Cathaoirleach, I feel that it is the only way in which I can do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: How would that happen?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I absolutely agree with that, but the point is that the procedure must be drawn up, I presume by the CPP, which is the group that always does it. As the longest serving member of CPP, I do not want to participate in designing a procedure for impeachment without having the views of all colleagues on all sides. It would be wrong to do so. We are making a mistake here. Let us not make a...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (19 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: We did own it and we sold it off so that these companies could make huge profits. We should have had this debate four years ago.
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister to the House and I am pleased to contribute to the debate. This is an appalling motion and desperate to the world. The Leader this morning said the Government was entitled to blow its own trumpet but the problem is that trumpets get confused with foghorns now and again and frighten off the horses. If the motion had read that Seanad Ãireann acknowledges the policies of...
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It cannot be done in three years. That is the problem.
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The motion, as amended, is agreed to.
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The amendment was put.
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It was agreed to.
- Seanad: Public Finances: Motion. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The motion, as amended, was agreed to.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Unfortunately all the credit was in the one direction.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Who said it?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I seek a ruling, a Chathaoirligh, regarding this evening's Private Members' motion, which asks us to reaffirm a key objective of Government policy. I am not sure whether, constitutionally or under Standing Orders, it is appropriate for the House to affirm the programme for Government, which is agreed between two parties. I do not know how the House can be brought into that matter. On a more...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I have asked on many occasions that Government Private Members' motions should refrain from commending and congratulating members of the Government as it is difficult for Members to look at them through a clean lens. I have never seen such a sycophantic motion in all my time in the House. It opens up new areas. I defer to my colleague, Senator Norris, because I do not know whether there is...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Senator Mansergh looks grossly unhappy.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (12 May 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I asked previously for an update on the progress being made by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding the new credit card driving licence. New legislation has been enacted and it is a legal imperative that one should carry one's licence at all times while driving. The fact that the licences are made from very soft paper makes it very difficult for people to retain them...