Results 41-60 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is all about funding and there is less money going to the city. It is the same.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Could we stop the doublespeak?
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is doublespeak.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Huge pressure was put on certain councillors to reduce the property tax by 15%-----
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It maintained a reduction.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: There was pressure on the same people not to increase rates. That is typical of the hypocrisy of those parties.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Those parties should cut out the nonsense. I have constructive suggestions. We must examine how we fund our capital city and we must do it honestly instead of what these yobs on the other side are doing.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: They behaved like it for the first five minutes of my contribution.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: They are what they are. They have crashed and burned this country often enough to be called a lot worse.
- Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I apologise.
- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. For once, I probably disagree with Senator Noone. I do not want to see gardaí on park runs; I want to see them patrolling the flat complexes in the inner city.
- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: There is a resource element in respect of our capital city. Looking at the number of gardaí per 100,000 citizens, the figure for Dublin looks quite good when compared with the rest of the country. However, this does not take account of the 6 million tourists who come to the city annually or the 200,000 commuters who come into the city every day. When those elements are factored in, it...
- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: There have not been many speakers, so a little leeway would be appreciated.
- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: This is a subject close to my heart. Not many politicians go into these areas in the south inner city. People living there feel they have been deserted by mainstream politicians who do not even attend public meetings on drugs and crime. We need to roll up our sleeves and ensure these communities are represented and that they get the resources they need. Otherwise, we are storing up a huge...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I acknowledge Senator Kelleher's work on dementia and her concerns about it. We thought we were making progress, where there was a line referring to it in the latest budget. I refer to the issue of Saint Joseph's Shankill, which was debated in the House with the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, as recently as 12 November. A notification was sent out earlier this week that no further beds...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: -----but perhaps Pinocchio is growing a very large nose on issues like this.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister asked for Saint Joseph's administrators to enter into intense negotiations with the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, which they did. In those discussions, the NTPF identified that the cost for a patient to stay in this facility was approximately €1,783 a week. Why did it offer to maintain the same patient for €1,350 a week? When that came to light, Saint...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Saint Joseph's is a brilliant facility. The family members I have spoken to in recent days are deeply concerned that those beds will be lost-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: -----and that 340 patients on the waiting list to enter that care centre will no longer have any hope.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Yet the Minister had the brass neck to make those statements in the Lower House.