Results 9,041-9,060 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: I do not want to pre-empt the report that will be published next week concerning the sexual abuse of children in the Ferns diocese over a period of 20 or 30 years. However, I ask the Deputy Leader why there has been no inquiry into clerical abuse in the Dublin diocese given that a firm commitment was given to the victims in questions more than three years to establish such an inquiry,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Visual effects.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: As the proposer of the amendment to today's Order of Business, I wish to respond. My purpose was to ensure the matter in question is debated. I withdraw my proposal in view of the Leader's generous response in allowing for such a debate tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: I move the following amendment to the Order of Business: "That on the conclusion of No. 1, statements be taken on Monaghan hospital and related issues." We would be in dereliction of our duty if we did not find an opportunity on today's Order of Business to debate the very serious and tragic issues that surround the death last week of Mr. Patrick Walsh in County Monaghan. At the outset I wish...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: I suggest that we have a one-hour debate followed by Private Members' business. Instead of beginning Private Members' business at 5 p.m., we would start at 6 p.m. and consequently have the vote at 8 p.m.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: European Union: Statements. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: European Union: Statements. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: I understand the Taoiseach must leave and thank him for staying for so long. I welcome the Minister of State with special responsibility for European affairs, Deputy Treacy. It is important and useful to hold a debate on the European Union in the House on the day the White Paper on the European Constitution has been published. For some years, I have been belly-aching about the tendency to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Will the Acting Leader discuss with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the possibility of him making a statement in the House next week on the extent of damages which can be awarded to individual citizens who have been wrongly convicted? I refer to the issue which arises in respect of Mr. Frank Shortt following yesterday's High Court ruling. It is fair to say there is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: There was a time when the DUP was a friend of the Government and one could not say anything against the party. I was attacked two years ago for making a comment. The Government's changing view is astonishing.

Seanad: Tallaght Childhood Development Initiative. (12 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this important matter in my area in the Dublin South-West constituency and I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, who has responsibility for quite a number of these issues. The childhood development initiative is a long-term project that has been put in place by in excess of 23...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Of course he was, he ended up here.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: It is the Government that is jaded.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Yesterday, a number of Members raised the issue of age discrimination in the House. I can give the Leader an example of how our legislation contains concrete and inexplicable age discrimination. Recently, I discovered that people over the age of 70 are ineligible to serve on a jury. This matter relates to the Juries Act 1976. It seems crazy that people over 70 are completely ineligible to...