Results 5,221-5,240 of 11,812 for speaker:Denis O'Donovan
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Let us move on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: The Leader was entitled to mention it. He could have ignored it. There was a ruling by the last Leader that if Senators raised an issue on the Order of Business and left, their matter would be ignored. He did not say it in any defamatory way, he just mentioned it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Let us move on. The Senator has made her point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Allow the Leader to respond.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senators will address the Chair and move on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: We need to move on and not get bogged down in it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senator should not quote too much from the report. He might spoil our Christmas reading.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: If there are any more interruptions, I will suspend the House for 15 minutes. This is most ridiculous. Allow the Leader to respond.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Joan Freeman has moved an amendment to the Order of Business, "That No. 15 be taken before No. 1." The Leader has accepted the amendment. Is the amendment agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Is there a seconder?
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: When is it proposed to take Second Stage?
- Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: I have received notice from Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter:The need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider prioritising the re-introduction of the local improvement scheme in 2017. I have also received notice from Senator Paudie Coffey of the following matter:The need...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Improvement Scheme (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: It is a good result, Senator. An bhfuil tú sásta?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: I take it that it that the Senator is proposing is that No. 12 be taken before No. 1.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: We all join the Senator in that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: In the last Seanad the Seanad Public Consultation Committee produced a comparative report on the damage that alcohol causes and cancer. It was very successful. I can empathise with the Senator’s point of view while being Cathaoirleach and impartial.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: I call the Leader to respond.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: We kept the best wine to the last.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2016)
Denis O'Donovan: If Mr. Whitaker keeps going as he is, and he may well do - I wish him the best because I had the privilege to meet him once or twice - he may also become the Irishman of this century.