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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Killarney now receives 90% of the national budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I refer to the escalating issue of the bull beef crisis in Ireland. Our beef farmers are unable to secure markets. The British market is effectively closed due to the labelling issue in Northern Ireland and the inaction by the current Minister cannot go unnoticed. It is certainly not going unnoticed among farmers. A Private Members' motion was tabled by Fianna Fáil in the Dáil...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Like many other speakers, I welcome the thrust of the Bill and acknowledge the work done by Senator Feargal Quinn and his staff in bringing it forward. It allows us a welcome opportunity to debate a range of issues which remain to be resolved relating to the health insurance market. The difficulties in this regard are borne out by the fact, as acknowledged by the Minister, that many...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I wish to raise an issue pertaining to our health services. At a time when Ministers, including the current leader of the Labour Party, are fighting over who will be Ireland's next European Commissioner because they probably do not want to stand in the next general election, our health service is in crisis. The head of the HSE has had an open and frank confrontation with the Secretary...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I hope the Leader will agree, given the crisis that is emerging. In the event that he will not-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I will be moving an amendment that the Minister for Health should come to the House today.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I agree with other Senators who raised the beef issue. It is a major crisis and the Minister should be invited to come to the House to discuss it. The factories are behaving as a monopoly and the Minister has secured no new markets for live exports. He is failing in his duties as was highlighted by the demonstration on the streets of Dublin yesterday. We should have a debate on the issue...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I commend the Minister on bringing this legislation to the House. Today is a good day for the public health of the nation in terms of the passage by the Seanad of the legislation governing the use of sunbeds and the introduction of this legislation. I congratulate the Minister on bringing forth both pieces of legislation. It is disheartening to hear that the average smoker began smoking at...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The words I used during the course of the debate on the establishment of the banking inquiry were that I felt it could serve no purpose, because politics could infiltrate the banking inquiry.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It has been shown that this is what happened. A High Court judge should head up the inquiry now. This would be preferable to the political games being played by the Government at the moment.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Senator wanted more of it to be spent.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I acknowledge the contribution of Senator Denis O'Donovan not alone today on the Order of Business but as Chairman of the Seanad Committee on Selection. How dare those who hold the highest public office in the country try to denude or take away from his integrity in his role in that regard in the past two weeks or so. I also acknowledge the return to the Seanad of Senator David Norris who...

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I do have a question for the Leader. I know he is an excellent Leader of this House. I ask him to bring the Taoiseach and the Government Chief Whip to this House today in order that we can question them.

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: This House has a democratic right to question both those men for the decisions they have taken.

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I want to be associated with the remarks of our acting leader, Senator Mooney. I second the amendment to the Order Business proposed by Senator Healy Eames. What has happened over the past week in regard to the establishment of the banking inquiry is nothing short of a disgrace. We have seen a character assassination against one of our colleagues and an attempt to dismantle a Senator's...

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes.

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes.

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes.

Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The answer to the question from Senator Hayden is "Yes".