Results 401-420 of 704 for speaker:John Kelly

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)

John Kelly: I compliment Senator Mark MacSharry on the introduction of his discussion document on suicide awareness. I have consistently said here that I do not think we are doing enough to tackle the issue of suicide. I said recently that we needed to set up a single authority to deal with the issue suicide alone, to be headed by somebody such as Mr. Noel Brett. He was head of the Road Safety...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Prison Accommodation (28 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. Thankfully, I was privy to the response and read it earlier because Deputy Denis Naughten tabled the matter in the Dáil under Topical Issues yesterday. He received exactly the same response except this morning my title of Senator was substituted for Deputy. I shall quote one line from the response given to the Deputy: "While several options remain under...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Prison Accommodation (28 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I do not mind. I can give him one minute. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This matter is of great concern to all Oireachtas Members in County Roscommon. Harristown House is a unit adjacent to the prison in Castlerea. Historically, this was an open unit used to deal with prisoners with problems from drug misuse. When St. Patrick's Hospital in Castlerea closed, the people in...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I thank Senator Leyden for pre-empting my Adjournment debate. His comments had some merit in terms of-----

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: -----Private Member's business and Adjournment debates and the attendance of the relevant Minister at same. Fianna Fáil's Private Member's motion yesterday had been well flagged. Either the relevant Minister should have been present or he should have selected another time that suited him. He should have taken the debate. The same applies in the case of Adjournment debates. One could...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fines Act 2010 (27 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I appreciate the response that was written for the Minister of State, who is delivering it on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality. With that answer, the Minister of State said everything I said in my presentation. When will it be implemented? It is not being implemented. The Minister for Justice and Equality needs to be told it does not wash if the response is that the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fines Act 2010 (27 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I would like to know the reason the Fines Act 2010 has not been implemented. It is good legislation which provides for the payment of fines by instalment, the appointment of a receiver in respect of default of payment of fines, the imposition of a community service order in respect of a person who fails to pay a fine, and publication of a list of defaulters, and which gives recognition to...

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: May I share my three minutes with Senator Landy?

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: One and a half and one and a half.

Seanad: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I will stick to the point, as I have so little time. Like other Senators, we would like to discuss many social welfare issues, but I will make a few brief points. First, there should be no change to the FIS. It is working well and is achieving what it set out to do. Second, I more or less stated on budget day what Ms Mangan and the advisory group have stated, that is, there should be some...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, but rather than delay the Order of Business today, I will seek to raise an issue on the Adjournment of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I support my colleague, Senator John Whelan, in his call for proper engagement with the 24-7 Frontline Services Alliance. I said last week in the House that front-line workers and middle-income earners had nothing left to give in further talks. As Senator Diarmuid Wilson said, morale in the Garda Síochána is at an all-time low. I know that in some Garda stations in this city gardaí do...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I support my colleague, Senator John Whelan, in his call for proper engagement with the 24-7 Frontline Services Alliance. I said last week in the House that front-line workers and middle-income earners had nothing left to give in further talks. As Senator Diarmuid Wilson said, morale in the Garda Síochána is at an all-time low. I know that in some Garda stations in this city gardaí do...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: Reducing the number of fire fighters who respond to calls from nine to five is not going to improve safety. Two years ago an incident occurred in Limerick in which one fire tender responded and a Garda and a fireman lost their lives on the road because health and safety requirements were not being fully observed. We should be selling the property tax to people on the basis that we are...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: These points have to be taken into account.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: It will not take four minutes. I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address this Adjournment matter. It relates to fire services and the new document launched recently entitled Keeping Communities Safe. I am at a loss to understand how by implementing this new document the Government can keep communities safer because the document proposes to cut the number of firemen attending...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: It will not take four minutes. I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address this Adjournment matter. It relates to fire services and the new document launched recently entitled Keeping Communities Safe. I am at a loss to understand how by implementing this new document the Government can keep communities safer because the document proposes to cut the number of firemen attending...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: Reducing the number of fire fighters who respond to calls from nine to five is not going to improve safety. Two years ago an incident occurred in Limerick in which one fire tender responded and a Garda and a fireman lost their lives on the road because health and safety requirements were not being fully observed. We should be selling the property tax to people on the basis that we are...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Fire Service (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: These points have to be taken into account.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: Last week I called for a debate in this House on wind energy and wind farm developments. Subsequently, the Sunday newspapers published interviews with the heavy hitters in the Irish wind energy sector. They claimed that living close to wind turbines, which have increased in size from 54 m initially to 100 m and then to 120 m, does not have any ramifications. They are now 185 m high and...