Results 101-120 of 190 for speaker:Mark Dearey

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: That seems to be his assumption.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: The fact is the legislation needs to address those who are not operating under a best practice regime. It is important that those people are not allowed continue for another 12 months with what they are doing. Six months, I would have thought, is more than adequate to allow for registration. It is being done locally. Information should be easily available locally and action should be well...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: That is not the point I am making.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: The point on breeding is the same one. Senator Coffey asked that the Minister name him a breed that is capable of breeding after four months. I am sure many can breed within 12 months and it is important we lay down an early marker at six months. The legislation is aimed at those who are not compliant with good practice and forces them into a decent practice. It should not give carte...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I so propose.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I welcome the Minister. I welcome also the amendments to the Bill as made by the Dáil. Heretofore there was a lack of regulation in this area. A lack of regulation in any sector limits the sector's ability to mature and develop new markets. As stated by Senator Norris, the next step, with certificate in hand, is the creation of an identity for dog breeding in Ireland which is equivalent...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I seek a resumption of the debate on health with the Minister for Health and Children. It was unfortunate but necessary that the debate was curtailed the last time she was in the Chamber. I look forward to her picking up a number of the outstanding items from the early part of that debate. I wish to reflect further on what has happened in the past day or two between HIQA and the HSE with...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Justice and Law Reform to come before the House to update Senators on the position on the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill which remains a long way from completion. Although not by any means the complete item, the legislation addresses in a useful manner a number of issues relating to asylum applications and seeks to streamline the asylum...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I support Senator Corrigan's call for a debate on the decision to move people who need psychiatric care from residential hostels back into psychiatric institutions. The Leader will appreciate that the HSE has been tasked with saving money. While it is important that it should do so, it should not be done on the basis of rolling back progressive policy. That is what is happening in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I did not raise that.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: Will the Leader plead with the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding the fate of approximately 70 so-called aged out minors? These are young people who came to Ireland, often trafficked, and have reached the age of 18 years. They are being moved from the facilities they currently occupy,...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I thank Senator Corrigan for sharing time with me. I have a particular interest in this issue. I do not like to drag my good wife into the debate, but she has worked in St. Luke's Hospital and the cancer centre in Belfast as a senior radiation therapist. As such, she has a particular insight into the issues involved. I asked her the other night whether patients from County Donegal being...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I agree with the calls for a debate on waste management, the issue underpinning the points, some of them valid, on the legitimate expectations to which Senator Regan referred. I do not doubt that the Minister is aware of the requirements for consistency with legitimate expectations, but the situation is more complex, as he warned the incinerator's promoters that the waste management strategy...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: I have asked him for a debate on waste management. There are issues on which morality demands a free vote, but civil partnership is not one of them. It is a civil rights and civil law issue. It is about succession, inheritance, social welfare and the State-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: -----recognising and applying civil rights to people who are deserving of them, no matter their sexual orientation and so on.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Mark Dearey: There is no moral issue.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Mark Dearey: A job is a very precious thing. It underpins people's lives and provides a bedrock for family stability. It generates a sense of self esteem for the person holding the job and it creates wealth and spending power in the local economy. All of these features are significant pluses in any individual's life. I say as much to underscore my understanding of how important jobs are. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Mark Dearey: I ask the Leader for an urgent resumption of the debate on health services we had in the House with the Minister for Health and Children the week before last. During that debate, I put it to her that the reconfiguration of health services in the north east was being done in a hasty and premature way given the inability of the Lourdes hospital in Drogheda to deal with the additional load...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2010)

Mark Dearey: I also support this legislation because, as the Minister stated, the dissident threat is and has been for some time at a high level and recently manifested in a number of highly disturbing incidents. Gun murders have taken place on this side of the Border for the first time in many years and there has been a series of disruptive and sinister events north of the Border, particularly in...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)

Mark Dearey: I thank the Leader for arranging for the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to come in yesterday to debate the health issues of the day in the House. It was a useful hour with her. Unfortunately, the debate had to be curtailed and I understand she is due back in - I wonder could he confirm when - to conclude that debate. When communicating with her, he might ask if she could...