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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: B'fhéidir go bhfuil ceisteanna ag comhaltaí eile.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Ceart go leor.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Tá mé ag smaoineamh ar na rudaí atá le rá ag na finnéithe. Tá mé ag iarraidh a dtuairimí a bhailiú don fhochoiste seo.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: B'fhéidir gur mhaith leis na toscairí freagra a thabhairt ar na pointí agus na ceisteanna a tháinig chun tosaigh go dtí seo.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Uasal de Spáinn as ucht an ráiteas a thug sé dúinn. Is gluaiseacht stairiúil é Conradh na Gaeilge. Tá sé ag saothrú ar son na Gaeilge le breis is 120 bliain. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuil an conradh ag obair i measc an phobail go laethúil. Tá tuairimí na n-ionadaithe thar a bheith...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte romhaibh. Tá leithscéal faighte againn ón Seanadóir Fiach Mac Conghail. Cuirim i gcuimhne do Chomhaltaí a ngutháin a mhúchadh. Molaim anois go rachfaimid isteach i seisiún príobháideach chun breithniú a dhéanamh ar chúpla rudaí.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Anois, déanfaimid breithniú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 a chur i ghníomh, lenár n-aíonna ó Chonradh na Gaeilge. Gabhaim buíochas leis an triúir finnéithe atá in éineacht linn anseo inniu. Is iad Julian de Spáinn, ard-rúnaí Chonradh na Gaeilge,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: An Fochoiste um an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus Rudaí Gaolmhara: Cur i nGníomh Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030: Plé le Conradh na Gaeilge (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Anois, iarraim ar Julian de Spáinn labhairt os comhair an choiste.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Once again Senator Barrett has put forward some very interesting statistics with regard to the forthcoming referendum. I am of the views that those statistics are factual in nature. If one compares them to the dearth of information being made available by those who support the abolition of the Seanad, it is quite clear that - as I said yesterday - there was a need for either a White Paper...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. It is not surprising that this subject would be debated in this House. I hope the Minister will find something helpful for his future decision making. Many people are surprised that even though they are committed to the fairly radical reform of the junior certificate curriculum, they are disappointed that history is to become a casualty of that. History...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: -----and given us 12 months to examine the pros and cons and have a genuinely informed and focused debate. That was not done and the matter was not allowed to go to the Constitutional Convention. I will not use the word "dishonesty" but there is something very strange about the excuses given for not bringing it to the convention.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: The excuses do not stand up. Let us forget about ourselves as legislators and ask ourselves two questions. Are we treating the people in a mature manner? Is it our intention to, in some way, add insult to insult and suffering to suffering, which the Government is doing at the moment? The reason I mentioned a White Paper or Green Paper is that one can see, as the debate evolves and people...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: That is the extent of their input into the democratic system, and then they want to get rid of an oversight that already exists. This matter should not be about budgets and recessions but rather about respect for ourselves as a free people. All I can hope is that we will not succumb to this type of exercise because if we do so in this case, those who have brought it forward and advised the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat. Most people agree that Ireland is a very proud nation - a nation of great tenacity. We had to pay dearly for control of our destiny and the democracy which we have. The referendum posters in support of the abolition of the Seanad put forward as reasons for its abolition the saving of €20 million and the reduction in the number of politicians. I wonder what...

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: We will be listening with great interest. If that rationale does not stand up, we will be in difficulty because the Dáil will not reconvene. Surely, nobody is suggesting that if we succeed in passing this motion - it is quite clear the system would not disintegrate or fragment as a result of our doing what is proposed therein - the Dáil will not reconvene. I would be very...

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: ----- and vote for people and their lives. I thank Senator Daly for tabling this motion. He has done a good job in this regard.

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: I believe Senator Daly has done a service for the people who matter most, the people who require an organ transplant. His extensive research on the matter has been helpful to us all. The raising of awareness of organ donation and transplantation can only be helpful. We have been debating the matter for two and a quarter hours. It has now become very clear that we should have debated the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Many of these people are not responsible for the position they are in. They are looking to those of us in public life whom they hold responsible. We see well educated people leaving the country in their thousands; these were the very people whom we had looked forward to being the future of this country. We look at people who have no reason to get out of bed in the morning because they are...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Exactly. Let us look at what will happen, assuming the referendum does not succeed. I have a feeling it may not be as straightforward as the populist approach was in the beginning. Through the contributions of many fine Members in this House and the media, as we saw in the Sunday Independent and other newspapers, I get the feeling that we are filling the vacuum where the White Paper...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2013)

Labhrás Ó Murchú: Fáilte romhat thar n-ais arís, a Aire. The process here of discussing the referendum is exactly what it should be. It also is what the Seanad should be, in that if the Government has a proposal to put to the people and if that proposal concerns the future of Seanad Éireann, then democracy allows and demands that Members have an opportunity to express their view. In doing...