Results 961-980 of 4,132 for speaker:Donie Cassidy

Seanad: Insurance Industry: Statements (1 Apr 2010)

Donie Cassidy: It is essential that there is competition in the insurance market. When I started an inquiry in 2003, as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business, the cost of insurance was the second largest item of expenditure on the balance of every company and family business. The cost was unsustainable and many families and businesses were not properly insured. We put the case...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: The Order of Business is No. 1, statements on banking, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and adjourn not later than 2 p.m., on which spokespersons may speak for ten minutes and all other Senators for eight minutes and Senators may share time, with the agreement of the House; No. 2, Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 3 p.m. and adjourn not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: It brings in approximately €200 million a year.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: No one interrupted Senator Phelan.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Freedom of speech, please.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Exactly.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: John Bruton was job-sharing.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Senators Donohoe, O'Toole, McCarthy, O'Donovan, Boyle, Norris, Ó Murchú, John Paul Phelan, Dearey, Quinn, McDonald, Bacik, Ó Brolcháin, Hanafin, Coghlan, Coffey and O'Reilly expressed their serious concerns about banking issues. As Members are aware, statements on banking are due to be made immediately after the Order of Business until 2 p.m. It is my intention that the debate will be...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: -----and the new Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Connick.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: The Senator should give me an opportunity to respond.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: That is the reason we do not want a dictatorship in politics. It is also the reason Seanad Éireann should be retained.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: We know all about Fine Gael's bully-boy tactics. However, the day for such tactics is gone.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: We put paid to the tactics employed by Fine Gael generations ago when men were men.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I do not need to tell the Cathaoirleach what happened during Easter week-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Why was it necessary to abolish it?

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: The representatives that were there at the time-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: -----in the bully boy fashion the same as Fine Gael is trying to do.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Donie Cassidy: You know who abolished it and I know who abolished it.