Results 901-920 of 1,677 for speaker:Ned O'Sullivan
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: We are only dealing with section 4.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: We will deal with it when we come to it.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: I have the figures here if you want them.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: We will be here all day.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: We are dealing with a Government Bill and not a Fianna Fáil Bill.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: So the Labour Party has not changed its position.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: It is Labour's way.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: Nobody will pay you.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: Where will you get the money?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: Stick with the Bill.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: I had not intended to intervene a second time on this debate. However, it is clear that Senator Byrne's amendment has shown the fatal weakness in this Bill. I acknowledge that the Minister was only recently appointed. In times past-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: -----elderly Ministers who had held ministerial posts for 30 or 40 years would come in here and stonewall-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: -----and give no encouragement to this side of the House. The Minister has unfortunately made the fatal mistake of encouraging us a little. When Members on this side of the House get encouragement, they take advantage of it. We need to look at the realpolitik of this. I have been involved long enough in local government and the Seanad for some years to be realistic and pragmatic. We could...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: We are sick of them. As I was trying to delete them yesterday, however, I found that I had deleted some important and valid representations from my own county of Kerry. I am sure others may also have experienced that. I found out that there is a way of dealing with those particular e-mails.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: One learns something every night one goes out. I have learned a good deal like that, as has Senator Brennan.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: I will conclude on that note. I wish everybody here a happy Christmas.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: Like Senator O'Donovan, I forewent my opportunity to contribute on Second Stage yesterday due to the exigencies of the debate. I do not wish to produce the same speech that I had prepared but there are two points I would like to get across while speaking to the amendment. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, back to the House. Many people have said that he and the senior...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: I think my colleagues have gone out to confer on the gravity of the situation and probably to reflect on some of the words of wisdom and on what I have just pronounced upon here.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: I will not belabour the House. It is late in the year and we have had quite a lot of debate on the airwaves, on the television and in the national print, and it was morning, noon and night. I was just making the point about the new type of democracy we are seeing in Ireland. It is a new phenomenon. It is interesting in one way and it is worrying in another. If parliamentary democracy...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
Ned O'Sullivan: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Seanadóir. There was a famous debate in 1948 when another coalition debacle led by Fine Gael, the mother and child scheme, was being debated. De Valera was the Leader of the Opposition, and at the end of it -----