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Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Yes, I must do so in full support of Shannon Airport and the initiative.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 1:After ??5th December, 2012?? to add the following: ??provided that Aer Rianta International is incorporated in the new, independent Shannon Airport Authority on or before 31st December 2012??.As we all know Shannon Airport is an institution in the mid-west region. Shannon Airport and the Shannon Foynes Port Company are the two major infrastructural hubs of the mid-west...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I will be brief. I thank the RTE management for their frank answers. I respect that. I want to make an observation. People would be surprised to learn that presenters of high profile programmes such as this one are so bound by the editors behind the scenes and the voices in their ear pieces that they do not have the flexibility to counterbalance a problem that might arise. I recommend to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Chairman, I have not had an answer to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I did not hear an answer to my question. Was resignation considered and what was the outcome of that consideration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Was consideration given at board level to resignations from the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome the RTE management. Like most people I have always had the height of respect for RTE. Nobody is perfect but we have always looked up to RTE as the national broadcasting company. My confidence in RTE has been greatly shaken in the past 12 months. I do not believe I am alone and in spite of the publication of the reports on this programme, there remains a lingering suspicion or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I will. I have just two brief questions. The presenter of the show, Pat Kenny, is an eminent broadcaster, one of the best we have ever had and a man for whom I have great respect. I would imagine the role he would play in the programme would be similar to that of a conductor of an orchestra, conducting a symphony. Once the music starts, the conductor is in charge. All the preparation and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: All I have to say about the budget is that, like others, I have been lobbied intensively by various sectoral and interest groups who are worried about cutbacks. Yet, it appears to me that one of the groups facing the most radical cutbacks, in terms of expenses, is ourselves. Perhaps it is time we started to lobby for ourselves and stopped running away from media pressure and to have the...

Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Senator Gilroy could not resist the temptation to take another swipe at former Fianna Fáil Ministers. It would be remiss of me not to point out that former Deputy Charlie McCreevy was generally considered to be a reforming and successful Minister for Finance. He went on to achieve further successes in Europe. I will not discuss any other ex-Ministers for Finance. I agree with Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Will the Leader arrange a debate with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, on the decoupling of Shannon Airport from the DAA? I take no position on the issue other than to point out there is an amount of concern among the workforce in the Shannon area about the security of current jobs. The Government has indicated that a sizeable number of jobs will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Someone is leaking them.

Seanad: Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I commend the Minister of State on the work he is doing and wish him well.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I strongly support my colleague, Senator Ó Domhnaill, in his remarks about "The Frontline" programme and the report on RTE. Any reasonable person would have to agree that programme and the warped way in which it was conducted changed the entire course of the presidential election and, more than likely, the outcome as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: In fairness to the incumbent, President Higgins, more luck to him and he is above reproach. However, there is a man who it appeared likely was going to be President who probably will feel very sore every time he reads these reports.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Clearly RTE has serious questions to answer at the very top.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Not just RTE but I am mindful of the way in which a BBC inquiry has taken place and the level at which heads are rolling over there. We need to see a few more heads rolling in RTE and that needs to happen pretty swiftly. There has been reference to fascism around the House. Hitler was mentioned and Mussolini was more or less mentioned.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: That was his term.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: Did the Leader notice what happened last weekend when a very strong and well conducted protest by the Dublin trade unions was interfered with and heckled by a small group of people?

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2012)

Ned O'Sullivan: I want to make this point. Extreme left-wing groups have taken to the streets over the years. They love the street theatre; we give them all the time in the world and they can have their say. Having got that leeway, if other organisations such as the trade unions, who are a responsible group of people, want to have a street protest, they do not want them to have a say and they heckle them....