Results 741-760 of 991 for speaker:Aidan Davitt
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I express my disappointment at the disgraceful treatment of the senior Irish women's soccer team by the FAI. The lack of basic facilities and support for professional and semi-professional sport stars is appalling. I am very disappointed that this heavily State-aided and cash-rich professional organisation treats its stars so appallingly and leaves them without access to nutritionists and a...
- Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Most of the amendments seem very logical and Fianna Fáil is delighted to support the Minister by accepting them as part of the Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016.
- Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Apr 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Fianna Fáil supports the transposition into Irish domestic law of the Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016, which implements a 2013 EU directive. I accept that the current Minister inherited this Bill midstream but it is a damning indictment of successive Governments that this Bill was only published in August of last year, three years after the EU accounting directive was finalised during...
- Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: Second Stage (4 Apr 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I am delighted to second Senator Swanick's Bill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I agree with my fellow Westmeath man, Senator Gavan, that the good news about water charges is certainly welcome. I congratulate Senator Ó Céidigh and the members of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services on the hard work they have done on this issue. If everything we are hearing on water charges proves to be correct, our own hard-working champion of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I am certain that it will be covered.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: It will be, I am sure.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: It will be essential reading.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Protector of the countryside.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: There are no votes on the road to Damascus.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I raise a matter of national interest that greatly concerns me. The GAA does so much good in the country and it is part of the social fabric that makes Ireland unique. I am surprised by a diktat issued by GAA headquarters in recent weeks. They wrote to county boards and asked them to reduce the minute's silence to 20 seconds silence. It is one of the most bizarre requests I have heard of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I would expect nothing else from the rebel county.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: Senator Norris started a few.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I can feel the frustration behind me.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: If the Senator would let me-----
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: This is typical Sinn Féin. It will not let people talk for themselves.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)
Aidan Davitt: I did not open my mouth once.