Results 35,841-35,860 of 35,975 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Seanad: Physical Education Facilities (20 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for his response. To tell the truth, I am shocked just reading it. The parents' committee and the board of management received an official letter from the Department confirming that the sports hall was approved and should be on site within eight months, but there was a caveat that it could not go to tender until the mechanical and electrical designs had been approved....

Seanad: Sustainable Residential Development: Motion (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh na treoirlínte. Tá sé thar am go bhfuil na treoirlínte againn. Níl dabht ar bith le blianta beaga anuas go bhfuil na conraitheoirí móra ag cur brú ar na bailte ar fud an Stáit, agus nach raibh na treoirlínte in ann cosc a chur orthu agus cinntiú go raibh an forbairt a bhí idir láimhe acu an forbairt ab fhearr don todhchaí agus go raibh...

Seanad: Sustainable Residential Development: Motion (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: If one talks to any councillor throughout the State, one will hear that one of the major frustrations concerns trying to liaise with the planning sections. Councillors understand the burden the planners are under in trying to deal with enforcement, regulations and the huge number of applications, particularly given the construction boom, and while perhaps they will not be as busy in the...

Seanad: Sustainable Residential Development: Motion (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: It will not be possible to do it for the foreseeable future unless the local authority is a very rich one, of which there are few, if any. The Minister refers in the document to proposals on limits for lower density, which would be an alternative for those who want to build one-off housing. In many of the towns and villages in my county, such as the one in which I live, many people build...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Bill had passed through one House. That is terrible.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Leader said on Tuesday that there was no need for such a motion.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Some of them cannot return.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: He was not misquoted.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister says it is preferable to keep pupils, parents and boards of management in the dark and not publish a large list. This is only preferable for the Department and not for parents, teachers and pupils. The Minister of State must know of the frustration among the community in terms of the schools building programme. Nobody expects every school will be modernised tomorrow morning or...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The matter I have placed on the Adjournment is the need for the Minister for Education and Science to publish a complete list of all school projects in the building programme together with indicative times for completion. The predecessor of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, published lists of all school buildings, which included priority ratings and indicative...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire I want to mention the issue regarding the state of school buildings raised again today by Senator O'Toole. I am glad that it has been selected as a matter for the Adjournment this week. It is appalling that parents, pupils and teachers have been left in a situation where they do not know when their schools will be refurbished or updated. There is a question now of political...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I understand and I agree with the ruling, although I am not happy with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not challenging the ruling of the Chair. What I am saying is——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am raising a different point. I am asking the Leader to amend the Order of Business, taking the text——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Leader can do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking that. I am asking the Leader himself not to make this party political, amend the Order of Business and allow for a non-debated motion——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: The Leader can amend his own Order of Business, without it being on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: I am not moving that motion. I am asking the Leader of the House to have a debate, and do not want this issue to be party political. I am asking him——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ——because I asked for this on Tuesday, and it was rejected. This should not become a party political issue. The Leader has indicated he wants to be in America when the Taoiseach addresses the Joint Houses of Congress. If he turns his back on the 40,000 undocumented Irish, he should not be there. Let us have the debate. Let him do what Members of the Oireachtas on all sides want,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Pearse Doherty: Close the Dáil bar.