Results 601-620 of 1,451 for speaker:Michael Finucane

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: I support the previous speakers on the consumer strategy report. Its contents appeared in the Irish Independent some weeks ago and have been elaborated in more detail in The Irish Times today. It contains many recommendations of various strategies that should be deployed to bring down prices and to be pro-consumer. It suggests the appointment of an enforcer for the consumer area. I fully...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: When will it be taken?

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: The lid has been lifted.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Many of us over the weekend were touched by the very poignant circumstances in which a three year old child with an Irish passport wound up in an Indonesian orphanage. I would like the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to examine this case and, if possible, to at least send a social worker to Indonesia to find out what is happening. We should...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Stop stirring it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Senator O'Toole is really stirring it this morning.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: On Tuesday's Order of Business I called for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to clarify what is the situation with regard to the ten-point plan for accident and emergency services. It is clear that the whole situation is in tatters. What one must appreciate in regard to a programme like Joe Duffy's is that it is symptomatic of people's frustration that...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: It is hard for the Senator to stick to his own motion.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: The Senator should read the fifth point in the amendment. It is not all rubbish.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: I second the amendment moved by Senator Ulick Burke. I was surprised that the Government moved a motion of this nature. I read the newspaper reports of the Easter conferences of the various teaching organisations. The good reception that was given to the Minister for Education and Science at the conferences was in sharp contrast to the reception given to her predecessor, Deputy Noel Dempsey....

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Are there different criteria used when I make an approach as opposed to when the Senator does so?

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: 1998 was a great year.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: On a point of clarification——

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: I am allowed to make a point——

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: The Minister has misconstrued what we were saying and we would like her to be factual.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: The Minister has misconstrued what we said.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: It is the Minister who is confused.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: We take note of the term "phased basis".

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion. (13 Apr 2005)

Michael Finucane: Constructive approach.