Results 5,341-5,360 of 7,765 for speaker:Maurice Cummins
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: With 500,000 people unemployed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: It misled people again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: We will be speaking to the Bill then.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I support this reasonable amendment. To follow from Senator Ormonde's comments, we have proposed a period of 12 months but if the Minister wants to come back on Report Stage with a nine-month period instead, we will go along with it. Three months is not sufficient for people to comply with all the new legislation which will be put before them and for the local authorities to implement the...
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: The Minister claims not be using a heavy hand in this legislation but he is not prepared to accept the wishes on both sides of the House that there be a greater lead-in time. If that is not being heavy handed, I do not know what is. The Minister is going against the wishes of the vast majority in this House. He talks about consultation. There were many aspects in the report that was...
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: No, it is not agreed to.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: No, it has not been agreed to.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: It is the Minister's Bill.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Members did not say that.
- Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I refer to section 13(9), in which a bitch is defined as being "a bitch of more than 4 months old that is capable of being used for breeding purposes". Who in their right mind would have bitches breeding after four months? Who is advising the Minister in this regard? I do not wish to be emotive and I do not believe I was emotive earlier. I certainly am not a headline grabber in this...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Over the past 12 months I have regularly called for a debate on law and order, to no avail. We have had no debate on law and order. We are only two months into 2010 and eight people are dead because of gangland murders. There were 20 deaths in 2009 but we have already reached 35% of that figure this year. Despite rushing legislation through this House to make gang membership a criminal...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: He has not come here to discuss crime.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: He has not been here to discuss the issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Is Senator Leyden applying for the job?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Name and shame them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: I formally second the amendment to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: How many people are unemployed now?
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: At present, 437,000 people are unemployed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Who is the Leader codding?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)
Maurice Cummins: Name and shame.