Results 821-840 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The Senator should finish reading his speech.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Let us do the business and not-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Perhaps a new coalition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (13 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I thank the witnesses for the comprehensive note which was circulated on the topic of consumer protection. Mr. Grace mentioned in his contributions that the power to summons will be provided. Is there a need for supporting legislation to provide that? The power to do that is not there at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (13 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The powers to investigate will be strengthened. Can the witness explain that to me? Obviously resources will be required in order to carry out a proper investigation and to track and enforce the competition rules. Can the witness remind me about the independence of the budgets? If the CCPC does not have the budget to carry out the investigations they cannot be carried out properly. Are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (13 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The witness has mentioned investigations into the waste industry and car insurance companies. What resources does the CCPC have to deal with those issues? Is there anything within the COM that would guarantee the resources necessary to investigate to the level required?
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: According to a report on "Morning Ireland" today, rents have increased by up to 15% across the country. I have raised on numerous occasions the effects that short-term lettings such as those facilitated by Airbnb are having on the rental sector. Up to 3,500 units in the Dublin region that should be available for rental by ordinary working people have been moved into the hospitality sector.I...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Name them.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and it is good to see him here. I mean no disrespect to him but I would have hoped the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, would have attended due to the importance of this legislation.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Okay. The provisions in the Bill follow on from the recommendations in the Mahon report as well as those in the McCracken and Flood reports. This was a particularly grubby and corrupt time for planning throughout the country. Former councillors, such as Bernie Malone and Deputy Joan Burton, stood up in council chambers and said that there was corruption and bad planning. Trevor Sargent,...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: People are still suffering the consequences of those decisions. They are living in houses that are built on flood plains and do not know when they will be flooded. People purchased houses which they thought would be located near services, such as shopping centres and schools, that were never provided. We saw rezoning at will in the interests of the few and not the many. I, for one, am...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: This is a time for politicians to show leadership.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: This is a time for politicians to show leadership. We should represent people, as Senator Boyhan mentioned, but there is also a responsibility to show leadership. We must say to people that there is not something for everybody in the audience. We must make key decisions about where to spend the billions of euro that will be available so all our citizens can benefit. Unfortunately, all our...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I referred to observations.
- Seanad: Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I formally second the Bill. I congratulate, on behalf of the Labour Party, Senator Ó Ríordáin on the work he has done and on the fact that the Minister is accepting the Bill. I grew up in the inner city. Part of the south docks is a mirror image of the north docks. It is an area that has not recovered since containerisation. We have seen much unemployment in the core of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I ask that the Minister, Deputy Murphy, attend to explain his position on directly elected mayors for urban areas. Last month in the Dáil, he said there would not be a mayor in situfor Dublin for the 2019 local elections. There is a real urgent question of who speaks for Dublin because Dublin generates €85 billion of our GDP. It has 1.3 million citizens yet the funding for the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I thought we were careful not to mention names.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: In the boot of the car.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I will not mention that Fianna Fáil bankrupted the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Such as Cork.