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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Election of Chairman (18 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I nominate Deputy John O'Mahony.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Election of Vice Chairman (18 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose Deputy Paudie Coffey.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Before I speak to the Bill, I seek your guidance, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, about some of the comments made by the previous speaker. Will your office or the Office of the Ceann Comhairle have the speech just made examined by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges? People have been named in the Chamber and they are not here to defend themselves. It is the worst abuse of parliamentary...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am formally complaining-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have the floor.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will speak through the Chair, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, and the ignorance of foreign channels trying to break through will not deflect from what I am saying. It is the worst abuse-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----of parliamentary privilege to name people in here who are defenceless-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----and have their professional reputations tarnished, attacked and besmirched in such a cowardly way.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: They will not repeat it outside the gates of this institution.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The foreign channel can throw all the abuse he wishes at me-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: ---but if the same foreign channel-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy has a degree in balderdash.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the same foreign channel wishes to repeat those accusations, I suggest he repeat them outside the House.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to have it recorded that I intend to complain to the Ceann Comhairle-----

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----about what has happened here this evening.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who is representing the Government, to do likewise. It is absolutely intolerable that somebody's professional and personal reputation would be attacked in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not get €50,000 per year to come in here to call myself independent either.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not mention the leader's allowance.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I also wish to note that at no stage did I interrupt the previous speaker. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. The establishment of the child and family agency is one of the hallmarks of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. For too long the protection of children has been the poor relation in this State. The litany of reports that have been commissioned show that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: That was not the point I made. My point was that the connectivity from Limerick out into the regions of Waterford, Cork and Kerry has not received the degree of investment that other regions, namely, the south east - for example, the New Ross and Enniscorthy areas - have received at a time when the country has no money. I have great difficulty in reconciling the fact that the Limerick to...