Results 501-520 of 669 for speaker:Grace O'Sullivan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Ó Tuathail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I fully support the initiative of Deputy Collins to bring this legislation forward. I spoke to her earlier and said it could be strengthened through amendment. I echo the frustration raised by Deputy Ó Broin. This issue has been on the agenda for a long time and I am afraid the Minister will test the public's patience if he does not deliver a response to the Attorney General's advice....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: Can the Minister be more specific? We have been given no specifics whatsoever. I will walk out of here with no answers to any of the questions raised other than we have to wait for the Attorney General's advice. I would like to push the Minister on a date.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: Take your time, Senator.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I acknowledge and support what Senator Alice-Mary Higgins said. We have made huge progress in getting rid of terms such as "grubbing" and "destroying" hedgerows. I never saw a heritage Bill as being conducive to the use of such terms. We have come a long way which I welcome and it would be most unfortunate if we were to row back at a later stage and unpick all of the work we have done in...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment. The plan has been written by Dr. Una FitzPatrick in the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford. It is an excellent plan. She has consulted a huge number of stakeholders, particularly the Bee Federation of Ireland, to input into the pollinator plan. When we talk about pollination, we are talking about a number of different species that pollinate and the...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: As Senator Norris just outlined, it has really shocked us to see this amendment to the Bill. We had felt we had made progress over the course of the past months, and then we see this, which we feel is absolutely regressive. I would like to hear from the Minister exactly what she intends by tabling this amendment. The amendment reads "Disapplication of section 40(1) of Act of 1976 to...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: When I saw the expression "etc.", I asked myself what it meant. We are on Report Stage of the Bill and there is a proposed amendment referring to "cutting etc.". What does it mean? This is absolutely regressive. I am very concerned that every step we felt we had made with the Minister over the course of the past few months has now been obliterated. I very much hope she can give us some...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 2:In page 11, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“8.(1) The Minister shall conduct a comprehensive national baseline study over a period of at least 3 years to collect data on bird nesting and other aspects of hedgerow and countryside biodiversity in order to inform the protection of biodiversity and of other aspects of the environment including the...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 12, line 1, after "1976," to insert "the Minister may make regulations to allow". I will not press the amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: Yes.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: I just said that I am not pressing it.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: No.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: It would strengthen the amendment to insert the term "public roadside" to make it clear that it is the public roadside we are referring to specifically.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: No.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Grace O'Sullivan: No.