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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: My point concerned only private sector workers.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: It is a million and a half, give or take. How many of those jobs are not threatened and why are they not included in the wording? Some people would be in safe and secure jobs.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: We are just getting to the meat of the issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Without a doubt there is a crisis of confidence among the people in the Government. I have a simple question for the Leader. Given that the Members opposite have not listened to us for the past six months when we told them the people are very unhappy and do not have confidence in the Government, is there a possibility that today's opinion poll might be brought to the Government's attention,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: ——with a view to taking appropriate action in response to it? They do not read the newspapers, as I heard one Minister say. We should propose the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, for a star performance on "Morning Ireland" this morning. He clearly had not read the opinion poll, that is for sure. That is serious and has gone beyond a joke, but on a more serious point, I would like to...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: They never said "solely".

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: I wish to share time with Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: I will begin with one figure, that is, one out of ten. Every member of the Government should listen to the news tonight and examine the results of the opinion poll tomorrow because we have clearly failed to make it known across the floor that the Government measures are neither understood, accepted nor supported by the vast majority of people. It seems desperately useless, therefore, for...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: I want to pick up on an issue raised in the House previously and raised just now by Senator Fitzgerald, that is, the loss of teaching posts. When the cuts were announced weeks or months ago, I made the point it would cost 1,000 jobs. The Government side stated the figure would be between 200 and 300. I have analysed the list with the INTO and am absolutely certain it will be 1,000 jobs....

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Senator Buttimer could have been so lucky.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: We are.

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire agus roimh an tuarascáil atá curtha thar bhráid an Tí ag an Seanadóir Doherty agus an choiste. Mar a dúirt an Seanadóir Ó Murchú, tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach go dtuigfimís go bhfuil obair tábhachtach á dhéanamh ag na coistí ar rudaí mar seo. Nuair a chuala mé iriseoir de shaghas éigin ar an raidió le déanaí, bhí ceist...

Seanad: Development of the West: Statements (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Chun críochnú — leaving out three quarters of the speech I was going to make — is dócha gurb é infreastruchtúr ar nós bóithre agus leathanbhanda an rud is tábhachtaí domsa. Tá gá le leathanbhanda chun seans a thabhairt do dhaoine tionsclaíocht agus fostaíocht a chur chun cinn ina áiteanna dhúchais fhéin. Táimid ag brath ar sin, fiú amháin ó thaobh turasóireacht de....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: It is respect for the workers.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: I note the CPSU will engage in industrial action on Thursday which will mean there will be a picket at the gates of the House. Obviously, it will not prevent Members of the Oireachtas from conducting their business under the Constitution. However, Members of the Oireachtas should show solidarity with those people who oil the wheels of business in this House. I will certainly not pass the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: That is irresponsible. On the same issue, the names of some of the people involved were published in a weekend newspaper. I do not know whether the facts are correct in their regard, but if they are, I have a question to raise. One of the people mentioned is the owner of a company called Mount Carmel Medical Group. That company has received permission to build some of the hospitals to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Toole: I raise the same issue. It must be addressed. We are facing strike action throughout the country after two and a half decades of being the country with the best record in Europe in terms of the lowest number of strikes per year, growing productivity in almost every year of the last 15 until 18 months ago and good industrial relations. That is all fragmenting in front of us. I cannot...