Results 9,941-9,960 of 11,812 for speaker:Denis O'Donovan
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Will the Minister now deal with the fifth grouping?
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Minister may proceed to group 6.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Minister may proceed to group 7.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The amendment must be seconded.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I am loath to interrupt the Minister when he is in full flow, but I must remind him of the time constraints.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I am afraid there is only time for a brief response by Senator Sean Barrett. My hands are tied in that we must complete our consideration of the Bill by 12.45 p.m.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Amendment No. 4 is also in the name of Senators Sean Barrett and John Crown. I remind Senator Sean Barrett that the clock is against us. He should also be mindful of the Minister's very honourable commitment to return to the House for a broad debate on education.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I thank the Minister and Members for being so understanding of the time constraints under which we are operating.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I again refer to the issue of the trainee pilots who are stranded in Florida. I also wish to nail a couple of lies. I gave an interview on a Waterford radio station this morning and it was stated a relation of mine was one of the trainees involved. That is not true. I know some of the students - three of them are from the constituency in which I live - but they are not related to me. I...
- Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: As far as this side of the House is concerned, we broadly support the Minister's proposals and welcome him and the legislation to the House. I shall not say a lot about the legislation. The Minister referred, in his concluding remarks, to the tragic Tobin case which has some important legal and jurisprudential implications as far as this country is concerned. I ask the Minister, perhaps not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: These young people have been cheated out of substantial sums of money.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: There is fraud occurring somewhere.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: Yes. With respect, I do not doubt the sincerity of the Leader or the response he provided. He obviously received a briefing note in respect of this matter. Two of the student pilots in question e-mailed me this morning and indicated that they are flying home tomorrow at their own expense. There is something rotten going on here. I am not blaming the Minister but there is no doubt that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I ask the Leader for an urgent debate on the pilot training students who are trapped in America. In the past 15 months some 180 students, not all of whom are Irish, have paid approximately â¬15 million through the Pilot Training College in Waterford, a sister company of Pilot Training Company Florida which trains young people to be airline pilots, mainly commercial pilots. Since the story...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: This is the Order of Business and not a venture of storytelling.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senator can speak on this in the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senator can make those points in the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: I remind Senators that all 12 speakers who contributed today exceeded their limit. In one case, a Senator spoke for four minutes and 30 seconds. I am trying to be fair but some people take advantage of my situation in the Chair. It upsets the business of the day. I ask people, in so far as possible, to obey the Chair. Sometimes when I give an inch they take a mile. It is unfair. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)
Denis O'Donovan: The Senator is not entitled to name people. It is a breach of the protocol of the House. I ask him to be careful.