Results 9,041-9,060 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy's party never did anything like it.
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy was well able to ask questions about County Leitrim.
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is a new one.
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy's party never did anything like that.
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: They could be brought in with a family pass.
- Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy's party never did that.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Ellis should keep the needs out of it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: He did not even know the troika was coming.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Listen to the Deputy talking about blackmail.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: He had to clutch at something.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Code (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: One point that I, those who have made representations to me and others wish to ascertain is when the aforementioned report will be finalised and when action will be taken on it. As I stated, jobs are being haemorrhaged, primarily in the private sector and among self-employed people. The Small Firms Association also has identified a potential pitfall in this regard that it will be important...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Code (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this matter. In the short time I have been in this House, one of the difficulties I have come across - I am sure other Deputies have faced the same situation - concerns the problems of self-employed people who attend constituency clinics. Their businesses have evaporated and collapsed in a heap thanks in no small way to the mismanagement of...
- Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: I have previously asked the Minister about clothing policies in hospitals vis-à-vis the risk of the spread of infection. In the UK there is a policy of bare below the elbow and no neckties. I know some Members of this House also follow that policy. Regarding the spread of infection from patient to patient in a hospital environment, are the Department and the HSE giving consideration...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: There is a distinction, in my view. To be fair, a journalist will not print in a newspaper, "Anne from Kilkenny says...". Neither will a journalist identify a source by a nickname. Not only in the instance of the presidential election but also in other cases, politically motivated texts are sent with the intention of doing damage and are read out. The press office or the individual...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Crehan said the same was applicable to the print media as to the broadcast media. A news bulletin or a newspaper article will never quote as a source, "Noel from Beara". If Noel from Beara is Noel Harrington, that is the way it will be quoted. It will not be simply Noel from Beara, when there happen to be 40 men called Noel in Beara and it is impossible to identify which one is which.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is my point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is not the point I am making. My point is that the information is being relayed onwards through another medium, almost always by means of the broadcast medium of television or radio. I accept that a person may tweet whatever he or she wishes. However, that information is being relayed through a broadcast medium even though it would never be allowed in the print medium, for the reason...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the delegation for its presentation. I agree with everything it said about access to the courts. I said here last week that it is the preserve of the rich - end of story. I know people will say that legal fees have come down but in the real world with which most of us deal, for civil matters, the courts system is the preserve of the rich. If one has to ask the price, one cannot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Through the Chair, would the bulk of them be settled?