Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,451 for speaker:Michael Finucane

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I am pleased the Cathaoirleach gave Senator O'Toole latitude to express his view. I will not elaborate in detail but, as a long-serving Member of both Houses, I resent that a person who has only been in politics a wet day is coming here in an open-necked shirt and criticising politicians with such rhetoric. How many people in this House have rung constituents at 10.30 p.m. only for them to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: That is not relevant and the Senator knows it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Senator should not be confrontational.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I would like the Minister for Finance to raise an issue with the banks as a matter of urgency. Credit card scams are estimated to cost about €10 million a year. The banking institutions have promised to introduce changes to PINs and various security protection measures to make credit cards foolproof in the future. Those advances are being made in the UK and it is widely anticipated problems...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: Hear, hear. It is a waste of money.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I would say she will if she—

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I wish to briefly go down memory lane. When I was growing up, it was great to go to the cinema to see the cowboys and Indians.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I will come to that. The Indians never trusted the leaders of the cowboys and said they spoke with forked tongues. I had not heard that phrase until Mr. Hanly used it about the Minister for Defence, Deputy Michael Smith. He said collective Cabinet responsibility—

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: It is about time the Government got its act together on the Hanly proposals. Either it is serious about them, or it is not. Perhaps Senator Leyden was right when he said in the Roscommon newspapers that it should be scrapped.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I referred to people speaking with forked tongues.

Seanad: Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: "(e) new television or radio programmes to foster understanding of the global dimensions of Irish society.". When I spoke on Committee Stage I referred to the importance of this amendment. Sometimes we are inclined to forget the international dimension. I think of the contribution of Concern and other such...

Seanad: Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I acknowledge what the Minister is saying. I examined this in the context of the amendment, considering what he said about "the Irish experience in European and international contexts". It would be easy to add to that "to foster understanding of the global dimensions of Irish society". It would be no big deal to do so, as the Minister is expressing that with his references to "European and...

Seanad: Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Minister's officials have probably given him a note to say that he agrees with that.

Seanad: Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: No, but the Minister is usually accommodating. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Seanad: Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: I wish the Minister well with the Bill in the other House. We have seen many of his Bills start off in the Senate before going to the Dáil. If anything, in the context of what we have been discussing recently, namely, Senate reform, and what is evolving in the Senate itself, it gives more recognition and status to the Senate that that is now happening regularly. We had a very interesting...

Seanad: Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP. (13 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: Senator White would be proud of Ms Banotti.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Senator is welcome back to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: Yesterday, I requested that the Minister come to the House to answer questions on the Irish Prison Service. I have read in a newspaper a statement from the Prison Officers Association that more than 600 prisoners are on the run. They have absconded from open prisons, failed to return from temporary release, left hospitals, left their escorts or escaped in a number of other ways. Is this true?...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: Senator Leyden should tell us about Hanly à la carte.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Michael Finucane: Who has taken Senator Leyden's place?