Results 481-500 of 559 for speaker:Seán Ardagh

Financial Resolution No. 2: Income Tax. (7 Dec 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Financial Resolution No. 3 attempts to try to deal with this issue. Relief has heretofore been available on the interest on the loans used to buy the shares in these property rental companies. It is appropriate that this interest relief is disallowed. The estimated yield for 2007 in respect of this resolution is €5 million. Given the extent to which major property magnates are purchasing...

Good Samaritan Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (7 Dec 2005)

Seán Ardagh: I thank Deputy Timmins for bringing forward this Bill. The sentiments are excellent. The Good Samaritan Bill sounds like apple pie, motherhood or the flag. In theory, no one is against the Bill but in its present form it has been drafted deplorably. There are a number of very basic elements within the Bill that demonstrate the difficulties that present to people in drafting Bills. In...

Good Samaritan Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (7 Dec 2005)

Seán Ardagh: The trouble with Bills is that one must take their contents into account.

Good Samaritan Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (7 Dec 2005)

Seán Ardagh: The Bill states that a person, other than a health care professional, acting in the course of employment who is liable for damages that result from his or her negligence in acting or failing to act——

Good Samaritan Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (7 Dec 2005)

Seán Ardagh: The problem is that the wording is deficient. There is no clarity. Having said that, there is a need for some form of liability for good samaritans, particularly for the purpose for which Deputy Timmins originally intended the Bill, that defibrillators would be widely dispersed around GAA clubs and sport clubs and that people would use them on a voluntary basis. Again, one questions the need...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Nov 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the residential homes of the religious orders which are under-utilised in the Crumlin, Drimnagh and Walkinstown areas will be acquired for the purposes of providing nursing homes in the community. [36122/05]

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: That matter has already been addressed in a previous response.

Transfer of Execution of Sentences Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Deputy Cuffe has the right of reply, as he moved amendment No. 12.

Social Welfare Consolidation Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (20 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: In accordance with Standing Order 139, the Bill, with the concurrence of both Houses, will be referred to the Standing Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills. I understand that the motions of referral will be moved shortly.

Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this issue and I thank the Independent Deputies for putting forward this motion.

Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: It is an issue deserving of comprehensive discussion in the House, not only in terms of what we can do about the horrific situation at Irish Ferries but in regard to the question of Ireland's future as a maritime nation and what the Government has done to push forward that agenda. The initial action by Irish Ferries unilaterally trying to change the way it is staffed is totally unacceptable....

Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Internationally conditions of employment are a matter for the flag state. This is an internationally accepted maritime law and practice. Every ship, whether a ferry or cargo ship, that travels in Europe could have a flag of Panama or Liberia. There are questions to be asked and there are discussions that need to take place at a European level as to what flag can be used on ships that operate...

Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: I understand why it is in the interests of Irish Ferries to go to the industrial machinery — because of the redundancy it could be €7.3 million out of pocket. That is probably part of the reason it is going.

Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Seán Ardagh: I hope that at the end of the day a suitable resolution of the problem will come about.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: I thank the Opposition for the opportunity to discuss the position in Mountjoy Jail and its replacement in another location. It was interesting to read the Minister, Deputy McDowell's, well deserved blistering attack on the ineptitude of the Opposition——

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: ——and the hatchet job that was attempted by "Prime Time" in regard to the proposed new prison facilities at Thornton Hall.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: The motion typifies the way the Opposition criticises everything the Government does and proposes no alternative. This is the approach the Opposition is currently adopting. The Opposition reminds me of a pack of jackals attacking a herd of mighty beasts. The jackals snipe and bite at loose prey until they get a good kick up the yard and they run away. The Minister for Justice, Equality and...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Drugs are often thrown over the prison wall into the exercise yard but that should not be allowed to continue. I refer to the use of the moneys that will be generated from the sale of Mountjoy Prison. We should get as much as money as possible from the sale of the 20 acre site.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Every block of granite should not be designated as a listed building. Many buildings, which are no more than 100 years old, need to be demolished and replaced with exceptionally fine living accommodation for residents of Dublin, including Deputy Costello's constituents.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Seán Ardagh: Undermining the amount that could be achieved following the sale of Mountjoy Prison by listing a building which is not worth listing in the first place, to harry and annoy the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is a deplorable action on the part of the members of Dublin City Council who might try to do so.