Results 4,081-4,100 of 4,132 for speaker:Donie Cassidy

Written Answers — Horticulture Sector: Horticulture Sector (4 Oct 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the horticulture sector here. [26163/05]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (4 Oct 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the progress in forestry planting in 2005. [26158/05]

Driver Testing and Standards Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Donie Cassidy: I wish to share time with Deputy McGuinness. I will be brief as much ground has been covered. I am Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise and Small Business and we have been carrying out work with regard to the insurance industry. It is of the utmost importance that this Bill passes through all Stages before the summer recess. Some 350,000 drivers are still waiting to obtain full...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Donie Cassidy: I do not think any other Member of this House has suffered more than me through the redrawing of constituency boundaries. One third of County Westmeath was merged with County Meath and I lost 24% of my first preference vote.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Donie Cassidy: I am relating a factual matter. I wish Deputy Morgan well and know he has a safe seat——

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Donie Cassidy: ——but the public can also favour the underdog. I have been in Leinster House for 23 years and seen many things. I am aware of the job that the commission must do and understand why it has to do its work. The redrawing of boundaries started in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Mayo and then affected County Westmeath. I understand why north-west Meath was put back in with the rest of the county....

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Donie Cassidy: This division is wrong. An area's identity, ethos and culture have been completely removed. I make a strong case that whatever must be done with county boundaries — I acknowledge there are exceptions and the commission must make decisions — that under no circumstances should parishes be divided.

Business of Dáil. (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: I wish to draw to the attention of the House that I understood earlier today that I had voted on Second Stage of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005. However, it has since been brought to my attention that one of my votes has not been recorded. I wish to put on record that it was my full intention to vote in both divisions. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to bring this matter to...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: After the Deputy.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: The Deputy's constituency got an extra seat.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: The Deputy is a happy man.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: In the words of a good Kildare man, the Deputy is a happy man.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Hear, hear.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Pseudo-intellectuals.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: They are the most generous of all. They always knew the next morning what they had said.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill whose main purpose is revise the Dáil constituencies in the light of the 2002 census and to implement the recommendations contained in the constituency boundary commission's report of 2004. While it is relatively short legislation, it is very important. It will significantly enhance or damage sitting Deputies and candidates in the next general...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Speaking as one who has risen the hard way, working for 45 years to get where I am, making a success of being a businessperson and then entering public life and being able to assist the people of my native county and, like the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, having the great honour of wearing the county jersey for a few years, I hope at the end of my five-year term as a Deputy for Westmeath, I will be...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: Why did the commission not consider taking a little part up at Clonee, a high-density area where 6,000 voters might mean only two or three streets, instead of affecting an entire third of a county? It baffles me that any fair-minded person aware of the geographical divide should fail to see that, if Meath needs to gain 6,000 voters, one can take some areas in Dublin that may not have...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: When the Senator was in her Ministry in Athlone, she did her best for our county.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Donie Cassidy: The most important issue for the people of County Westmeath at the next general election is that our county should elect Government Deputies.