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Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I would not like the Senator to have to do something against his will.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I applaud the Senator for admitting his Government made a mistake.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: There are lots of Mooneys around, by all accounts. It is sometimes true that if one says something often enough, people will believe it. Contrary to what Senator Mooney suggested, we are not closing any schools. We are not closing any schools. We are not closing any schools. I have said it three times.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: That equates to the number of times Senator Mooney referred to the closure of schools in his contribution. Perhaps we are level at the moment. Senator MacSharry wants to look at the books. His party had the books for 14 years. It wrecked this country. The Senator wants us to allow him to have another look at the books. It makes us laugh. When the late Séamus Brennan drew up a Green...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: Senator Ó Clochartaigh is from Galway, although I am sure he was in Northern Ireland on a few occasions after he left the Labour Party.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: The Sinn Féin Minister for Education in Northern Ireland, Mr. John O'Dowd, proclaimed that he wanted to close all schools in Northern Ireland with fewer than 500 pupils. Senator Ó Clochartaigh has come to the House today to tell us how to organise our educational system in the South of Ireland. I rest my case.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I would like to ask the Minister of State two questions.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I commend the Minister of State on his approach to the subject tonight. He has made a reasonable contribution, in the context of where we are. I welcome the decision to provide for an appeals process. This is an unprecedented year. I mentioned my involvement in Newtown Upper national school in Faugheen near Carrick-on-Suir. The school had the required numbers on 13 September last year...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I am not the Labour Party Whip, but I suggest to Senator Mullen that if he wants to debate the issue he raised he would have a perfect opportunity to do so if he joined the Labour Party and came to the conference. I raise a serious issue, which I discussed with the Cathaoirleach yesterday. A convicted murderer can come out of jail, having served a term, and share in or inherit the assets of...

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is welcome. I have no doubt he intends to move this process forward and I look forward to his deliberations. We have had a number of conversations on this issue in recent months. Town local governments should be a fundamental tier of local democracy. Reform should place town local government at the core of the system and bring local government...

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: There are a couple of good hurlers coming through in Ferrybank.

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I am so enthused by this subject that I wish to speak again. A review of the Constitution, in which local government is clearly mentioned, is proposed. Will the Minister await its outcome before his final deliberations on his proposals for local government reform? Does the Minister intend to drive on ahead of that review? Will the Minister consider in any proposed legislation setting out...

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: Would the Minister like to tell us?

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Denis Landy: I heard what the Minister said

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. In athletics parlance, this is his third day of training on this issue. He had a good run out on Monday night and a better one at the committee yesterday. Today is the day when spectators look in. I have just a few points to make. There was a good debate on the issue yesterday, with a good exchange of views. No more than the Minister of...

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: FÁS is running a course on that for its own staff to try to get the money.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: Can we ensure that happens with the rest of the speakers today? I refer to the reissuing of medical cards by the central processing unit. I am glad to say a number of substantial changes have occurred since we last met. The most important is that medical cards will no longer be withdrawn from people awaiting the processing of a card because of the delays in the unit. Cards will be renewed...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: That is two items.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: It is two items.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Denis Landy: I am honing my oratorical skills listening to these people. They can say three things in one.