Results 1,301-1,320 of 1,750 for speaker:Declan Breathnach

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I have already asked people to stick strictly to the Bill. I am asking Deputy Niall Collins to do so now.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The Deputy does not need a point of order.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Sit down, Deputy.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Excuse me, I will deal with that. I ask Deputy Cullinane to resume his seat.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I ask Deputy Cullinane to resume his seat.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Go raibh maith agat. I remind Deputies that there are a lot of speakers on this Bill. Somebody will run out of time if we do not stick to the allocated times.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I remind Deputies that they may refer not only to what is in the Bill but also to what could relevantly be put into the Bill. There are four more speakers sharing time, so they have approximately two minutes each.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I call on the Deputy not to refer to people specifically.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority Campaigns (22 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a road safety campaign focusing on visibility and awareness for vulnerable road users such as cyclists, schoolchildren and joggers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8908/17]

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I welcome this Bill. I also commend those, both in the Seanad and Deputy Frank O'Rourke and the many who have tried to get the Bill to where it is today. In the latter days of my career as a principal teacher, it got to a stage where one could hardly buy a role of toilet paper without looking to procurement. That was the reality. We have for some time needed legislation to encourage...

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Minister for his response. I acknowledge and laud the staff in the Passport Office as well as those in the Minister's office in respect of their work with difficulties with passports. I recognise the importance of the integrity of the passports. As public representatives, we all know about the panic that gets into people when their passports go out of date. The difficulty...

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The number of people living in Northern Ireland seeking Irish passports has increased by more than a third over the past year. This is according to figures I obtained from the Minister's office. The figures show almost 33,000 people in the North applied last year for an Irish passport, an increase on 2015 of 34.6%. In 2015, 25,000 people living north of the Border applied for Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Joint Sitting with Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Co-Chairman for the opportunity, as a non-member of the committee but as a Border county representative, to make a contribution. Mr. Timmermans talked about solutions. I wish in a non-partisan way to throw two short questions out to him. We all know about the formation of the EU. It was a peace project in the first instance and then an economic project. Is there merit in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (21 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: 301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on recent reports in the media that his Department is considering ending the labour activation schemes, including Tús and gateway; if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental effect this would have on these fundamental schemes which provide an excellent gateway into the workforce for unemployed persons; and if he will make a...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I welcome the two reports and compliment all involved. The major focus is on the cost of motor insurance but I wish to comment on the issue of public liability also. The key issue is implementation of the recommendations and for people outside and in the House to achieve reduced motor insurance premiums. I have no doubt this is the intention of the Minister of State and the intention of the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: The Minister said earlier that his strategy is set out in the programme for Government and that that is his goal. I will not reiterate what Deputy Murphy O'Mahony has said, but clearly there is an opportunity in that legislation to expand and reintroduce an enhanced motorised transport grant for people with disabilities. That grant was to have been reintroduced some time ago. In that...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the Deputies for their co-operation with regard to time-keeping.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 16 February 2017.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Declan Breathnach: Deputy Carol Nolan is sharing time with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. Is that agreed? Agreed.