Results 81-100 of 130 for going forward speaker:Dara Calleary

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...does there in addition to the work it does locally. I commend it on the initiative launched yesterday for female entrepreneurs. It is a niche that needs to be developed, and the initiative is a good start in that regard. I am not convinced that the association between Enterprise Ireland, county enterprise boards and, in particular, local authorities, is good. It has the look of a...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...all farmers are doing well. The reality is that many of them are struggling as a result of matters beyond their control. I suspect that we will be obliged to return to this matter. We look forward to discussing it with the Minister at various meetings. Perhaps he will explain to us the rationale behind the proposal highlighted in last week's edition of the Irish Farmers' Journal. We...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...of fiscal issues provided by the United States Congressional Budget Office, which has the resources to get research compiled and which must be listened to. There is no sense in us assembling, as the Government has done, a fine bunch of people but putting them up there as Christmas decorations. As soon as advice they come out with that may not be politically popular is submitted for...

Assaults on Emergency Workers Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Ceann Comhairle and the Government Whip for facilitating the debate on this Bill. It is designed to protect our front-line emergency workers from grievous harm as they keep our streets safe, fight fires, look after injured victims and protect our safety. Gardaí, nurses, firemen and accident and emergency department personnel are all on the front...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: I welcome this debate and commend the Minister for the work she had done to reach this point. I also welcome the Government's decision to hold the referendum on a Saturday. I hope it is one that will hold for future votes. I had a discussion at the weekend with a highly aggrieved eight year old who wanted to know the reason we were holding a referendum for children and the reason she was...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: I welcome this debate and commend the Minister for the work she had done to reach this point. I also welcome the Government's decision to hold the referendum on a Saturday. I hope it is one that will hold for future votes. I had a discussion at the weekend with a highly aggrieved eight year old who wanted to know the reason we were holding a referendum for children and the reason she was...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...were not allowed to travel. Even though the group was willing to pay their travel expenses they could not proceed. This is what will happen. Tonight Deputies will vote away their credibility to go on local radio stations and threaten early elections because they will vote confidence in the effective way in which the Department of Health budget has been handled. Yesterday evening, the...

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Jul 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his very detailed speech and I compliment him and his officials on the huge amount of work that has gone into the preparation of this incredibly detailed legislation. We agree with the broad thrust of the Bill and we will be supporting it on Second Stage, but we will table quite a number of amendments on Committee Stage. I welcome the fact that the Minister is...

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 May 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...where the lack of lending and withdrawal of credit facilities are bringing businesses throughout the State to the brink of closure. I do not doubt the Government's good intentions in bringing forward this Bill, but the reality is that it is too late for the tens of thousands of SMEs which, in the two years it has taken the Department of Finance to get its act together and provide funding...

Private Members' Business. Regulation of Debt Management Advisors Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 May 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...and Senators Byrne and MacSharry, for the work they have put into this Bill. It is interesting to note this Bill was taken in the Seanad last year. It was promised at the time it would be brought forward this year. However, it has not as we come towards the midpoint of this session. I endorse Deputy Sean Fleming's point that, while we welcome the Government accepting the legislation,...

Ireland's Chairmanship-in-Office of the OSCE: Statements (10 May 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...commend them on the conference they held in March on political transparency and corruption, which was addressed by Elaine Byrne, among others. One of the concerns I have about where the OSCE is going is that Ireland will hand over the chair next year to Ukraine. We want the OSCE to promote political best practice, democracy and proper governance and standards within politics, but at this...

Witness Protection Programme (29 Mar 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing me to raise this issue. Anybody who has not lost a child cannot imagine the grief that Steve and Carmel Collins and their family have gone through following the murder of their son, Roy. To have this grief added to by being forced to leave their city and country because of being afraid to remain is unimaginable. I acknowledge the work done...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...Bill is relevant today, of all days, in respect of the restrictions it seeks to place on corporate donations. As we read the report that we have on our computers today, perhaps this Bill does not go far enough. I know we will debate the report in full next week, but many people sat in this Chamber over the years - male and female - and they sat in local council chambers around this...

Family Home Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (3 Feb 2012)

Dara Calleary: I compliment Deputy Donnelly on bringing forward this Bill and Fianna Fáil will support it when it comes to a vote. The Bill is similar in content and intent to the Bill proposed by my colleagues, Senators Marc MacSharry and Thomas Byrne, in the Seanad in July last year. Looking at this Bill in conjunction with the Minister's Personal Insolvency Bill, I am hopeful that we are finally...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (2 Feb 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...on this model he has of money following the patient. What does that mean for community nursing homes and district hospitals which do not have the necessary throughput of patients because they are going to the general hospitals? I pay tribute to the management and staff of Mayo General Hospital who have put enormous work into transforming the services and the standard of delivery at the...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No.3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...the Bill is fair and reflective of how the economy, and small businesses in particular, stands. It contains the wish across the entire House to provide the best possible protection for employees governed by JLCs. I acknowledge the departmental officials in the Chamber who have done their walk to Calvary on this legislation and have probably been nailed to a few crosses along the way....

Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...the 400 posts as this is probably down to her persistence and that of her predecessor, Mr. John Moloney. If we can get some of those 400 posts with a view to maintaining these services, we will go a long way towards protecting mental health services in Mayo. I heard the Minister of State talking on "The Frontline" last night of her trip around Wexford yesterday. I invite her to come to...

Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...of County Mayo there is no duplication of service between Ballina and Castlebar. A considerable round trip is involved for those who now use the service in Ballina but who will be forced to go to Castlebar if this move proceeds. For the type of client who is being treated in Teach Ashling there is no duplication of service. They are getting a very specific treatment there which they...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...Once again, our corporation tax rate, the foundations of much of our industrial policy, is under attack. The investors who are considering locating in Ireland are thinking to themselves, "here we go again." It is welcome that the Tánaiste has been so straight in saying this issue is not on the table and not a matter for negotiation, but he might also tell this to President Sarkozy....

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...Deputies John Browne and Timmy Dooley. I welcome the Minister of State's announcement of the reintroduction of the sports capital programme. I know he has fought hard to achieve that and I look forward to fairness in its dispersal. I am sure he will not keep it all in Westport. In the past two days, we have been asked by the Government to measure the budget in terms of jobs, reform and...