Results 6,321-6,340 of 7,082 for speaker:John Paul Phelan
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs. (11 May 2005)
John Paul Phelan: This issue involves a child in Kilkenny with special educational needs. The situation was brought to my attention a little over a year ago by the principal of the school the child attends when the school was having difficulty securing resource hours from the Department of Education and Science for the child. The child cannot speak. Anybody will agree that this is a severe impairment for a...
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs. (11 May 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I acknowledge the Minister of State's response. I accept he is not directly responsible but I wish to put on record how disgusted I am with what happened in this case. I appreciate that something happened to the file and it slipped through the net. However, the two years this child has spent in primary education cannot be recovered. It will take more than five hours of resource teaching per...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (4 May 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I hope the guests from the Isle of Man will understand my Kilkenny accent. I join with other Senators who have asked for a debate on concerns about the indigenous industrial sector. This follows the announcement that Waterford Crystal is to axe more than 400 jobs in Dungarvan and Waterford city. As a representative of the adjoining area of Kilkenny I know many people employed directly or...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (4 May 2005)
John Paul Phelan: Is the Senator seeking a debate?
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: There will not. The college will not be able to cope.
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: Senator Morrissey should not provoke the Opposition.
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I am glad to speak on the motion, which provides Opposition Members with an opportunity to voice their concerns about an area of public policy that is clearly unsatisfactory. I am somewhat surprised that the Progressive Democrats would use their time to raise an issue on which the Government has singularly failed. Despite what I have heard from the Minister and Government speakers, problems...
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: There are many who find themselves in a similar position every day. The adoption of a more harmonised approach to speed limits by all local authorities and the Department would create circumstances in which more commonsensical speed limits were applied. We have seen legislation which is considered by many to make the way clear for the privatisation of driver testing in future. While I am not...
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: We will all be gone by then.
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: And photo calls.
- Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: Fair play to the Senator.
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I am interested in the Senator's last comment about St. Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny. This morning I spoke to the doctor in charge of the accident and emergency department and he did not have such a rosyââ
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I spoke to the doctor in charge of the accident and emergency department.
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I know Dr. Courtney and I have spoken to him several times about the facilities in the hospital. Several of those in charge of the accident and emergency department of St. Luke's Hospital to whom I spoke this morning expressed serious reservations about the facility and noted significant problems with it. I will address these a little later. I am surprised and disappointed that the emphasis...
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I am also disappointed by some of the comments on the problems in the health service. Senator Minihan's statement that money continues to be the major problem is incorrect. While I acknowledge that health expenditure has increased considerably, the main problem in the health service is not funding but the absence of value for money and service improvements. It is clear the health service has...
- Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I apologise if I misinterpreted the Senator.
- Seanad: Swimming Pool Projects. (20 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: This is a simple issue and I hope the Minister of State has some good news. My adjournment matter concerns the public swimming pool in Kilkenny city, which is in a very dilapidated condition. There are detailed proposals for the building of a new pool in the city. A site has been located but the question of funding has not been resolved. I have heard mixed reports on this, from different...
- Seanad: Swimming Pool Projects. (20 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: There is no such thing as Kilkenny town council and there never has been. It is Kilkenny Borough Council. That could be contentious.
- Seanad: Expressions of Sympathy on the Death of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)
John Paul Phelan: I take the opportunity to join Senators who have expressed their views on the death of Pope John Paul II. As the House was not sitting last week, I took the opportunity to travel to Rome on Thursday and Friday to attend the funeral. As someone who, like thousands in Ireland and elsewhere bears the Pope's name, I felt it was fitting to follow the very Irish tradition of attending a funeral. I...