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Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Has the Minister a friend who knows the answer?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I join others in calling on the Leader to ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, to come to the House to discuss today's report. Others have stated how important and urgent it is to have the debate and I imagine the Leader will do his best to facilitate it. I call on the Leader to ensure that we keep the issue of the independence of our cultural institutions on...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator Darragh O'Brien might be mischief-making. He knows perfectly well that the programme for Government stands.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: The Senator will find that the programme for Government stands as is. What Deputy Keaveney was referring to was what would happen should some event happen. I am of a mind to say my party will not be taking advice from Fianna Fáil on relationships in a coalition.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I will certainly not be taking advice from Senator Darragh O'Brien on how to provide for stable government.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Amnesty International 70 page report, Deadly Reprisals, which it compiled by sending its brave members on the ground to dangerous and difficult places in Syria. They did this work at the risk of death and have confirmed, as the organisation can do given its status as an international organisation, that it is state policy to overthrow those opposed to the government. Amnesty...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is an extraordinary statement. I have heard of rewriting history, but really-----

Seanad: Euroscience Open Forum 2012: Statements (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is good to be here discussing something as bright and exciting as the Euroscience Open Forum. I believe this debate is being held at the suggestion of Senator Quinn for which I thank him. I also thank him for his contribution to getting Dublin to host the event. It will be a wonderful event - the Minister of State has described it as the...

Seanad: Euroscience Open Forum 2012: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: May I raise a point of information?

Seanad: Euroscience Open Forum 2012: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: When I mentioned collaborating with Sligo IT as champions, I should have stated also that the collaboration would be done in conjunction with the Sligo Education Centre. Education centres are vital to this work. I have spoken to them. I raise this point in the context of suggesting a model.

Seanad: Euroscience Open Forum 2012: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Can we put that on the record?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Sinn Féin wants the solution to everything overnight.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: A dose of realism would not go astray.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I echo Senator Mooney's comments and I see he is wearing his green tie I am sure in honour of the forthcoming matches which I am sure we will all enjoy. I also send my best wishes to the Irish team and its wonderful manager, Mr. Trapattoni, whose age shall henceforth be forgotten. I welcome Transparency International's report, Money, Politics, Power: Corruption Risks in Europe, published...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: While Sinn Féin voices lies.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: I noticed on posters in Dublin this morning – fresh shiny posters – the words, "Demand a better deal. Vote No." The posters are from an organisation that calls itself Libertas. Those of us who know about these things know there is no organisation called Libertas. It is just a front or pseudonym for Declan Ganley. What is really going on is that Mr. Ganley wants a better deal, not for...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: May I continue?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Libertas represents a new phenomenon in Irish politics. It is called the privatisation of politics. This is about people whose businesses are shrouded in secrecy providing funding for campaigns, largely in secret, and whose personal business aspirations are sidestepped every time they are raised. This is a campaign being run for the private aspirations of private people. I want to know...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: Indeed. I do not know what to say except that it is the truth of the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2012)

Susan O'Keeffe: The truth of the matter is that this is-----