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Seanad: Rebuilding Ireland: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I have to advise the Minister of State that he has five minutes before we must move to the next business.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister to the House. Like everybody else in the House and across the country, I am greatly saddened and upset at the revelations in Tuam. The treatment of young mothers and their children defies belief. It is chilling and horrendous. My sympathy is with the families concerned and my hope is that they will gain some solace from the huge outpouring of support they have...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Motion (8 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister to the House. Fianna Fáil will be supporting the motion. The Minister must be glad to have an opportunity to discuss a good news item like tourism. It is a rest from his travails with some of the more difficult elements of his brief. Although we have a lot to be thankful for in tourism, the Minister will know that we cannot for one moment become complacent or...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I warmly welcome the announcement about the appointment of Ms Bridget Doody as Clerk-Assistant of Seanad Éireann. As a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, I was glad to be associated with that appointment. Bridget has a long history of service in the Civil Service and in these Houses in particular. She is a close neighbour of mine in north Kerry. I know her family very...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I support the comments made by Senator Butler regarding the anonymous trolling that happens on Facebook and other blog pages. I had personal experience of that in a previous Seanad when I famously, or perhaps infamously, made a comment about the seagull situation in Dublin. What my family and I had to undergo on the blog pages for a week afterwards was horrendous. It was terribly upsetting...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: There are a couple of other good lines in there as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Election of Vice Chairman (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I second that.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I hope I am not in any way stealing the Leas-Chathaoirleach's thunder in welcoming some interesting developments on the tourism front in County Kerry, including the Leas-Chathaoirleach's home town of Killarney. I welcome the establishment of a new international college for hotel management being established as part of a public private partnership between the Gleneagle Group and Tralee...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I, too, welcome the Minister and wish him a speedy recovery. This is a subject on which I have spoken on many occasions in recent years. It is timely that I raise it again today. The Minister stated at the energy security conference just this week that the question of importing liquefied natural gas to the island and the role of natural gas storage would be under consideration by his...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for his reply, which I find encouraging. In fact, I am very pleased with it. The Minister has been engaging since he was appointed Minister, and met with all the players some time ago in a delegation headed up by the mayor of Kerry. There are no politics at play in this. All my Oireachtas colleagues from Kerry, both in the Dáil and Seanad, are at one on this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I wish the Minister well.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: Senator, you have gone over time by a good bit.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: You have gone a good bit over time, Senator.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: As we are in danger of running late for the Order of Business, I ask the Senator to conclude.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: The Senator's points have been very well made and represented the views of many people.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. Is Senator Lombard happy with the reply?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Boundaries Review (8 Feb 2017)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister.