Results 3,821-3,840 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It is worthwhile that we should keep an eye on how it does its business. Members from all sides of the House â the wisdom is not just on this side â have raised on several occasions in recent weeks the issue of the huge level of crime. I have just checked the situation. Is the House aware that there have been 200 early releases from our prisons in the first two weeks of last month and of...
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: We are agreed on that point.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: That is not the issue.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: That is a valid point.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It covers everybody with epilepsy, autism and other illnesses.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Does the Minister of State know that it was 40 or 50 years before other legislation was brought in on human rights?
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: That would not be acceptable nowadays.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Section 3(1)(a) of the Mental Health Act 2001 applies to almost every illness I mentioned.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Does that not apply to every single autistic person? The Minister of State should have the honesty to answer.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I am not arguing about that. Section 3(1)(a) applies to a whole series of illnesses, a list of which I can give the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I have worked in this area for 20 years and the Minister of State's colleagues will tell him this too.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Does this not apply to every autistic person?
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The Minister of State is avoiding the question. This issue is as clear as day; let us go through the different categories.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The Minister of State can talk until midnight but it will not change it.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: It is just another unanswered question.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The Department was busy in the meantime.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: The Government Members can have the whole lot to themselves, as far as I am concerned.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: I must state some things for the record. Nobody on this side of the House has objected to dealing with this legislation in an urgent manner. Nobody is saying there is no need for immigration legislation. We need a properly organised immigration policy. It drives me to distraction when people argue with us on the basis that we are trying to create some sort of open door policy. That is not...
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: That is not true. On a point of order, I ask the Minister of State to correct that point. That is misleading the House.
- Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)
Joe O'Toole: Let us hear it.