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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: If the Senator wants to raise the point of people not being present on a daily basis——

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Nobody objects to those debates.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: The House should note that we had a good debate here last night on green energy. I ask the Leader to explain to the House why, having allocated time for such an important issue, the main Government party, Fianna Fáil, only put forward one speaker. This is embarrassing for the House. I was left wondering why the full amount of time was not used to discuss such an important issue. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I want to go firmly on the record on this issue. Yesterday the Leader raised the issue of energy costs. He made a fair point and this is an issue that should be considered. The Joint Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources provided an opportunity to discuss this and what we discovered is that the real issue is with the wholesalers, such as Whitegate oil refinery, which...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: It is a pity Senator Leyden was not here last night when this was being discussed.

Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister to the House. In his opening statement the proposer of the motion made reference to the lack of representation of some of the groups. He might look at the Government benches, which are not exactly full in terms of its Members taking an interest in this issue. There is a convention that we do not make references to absent Members but, in the interest of balance, I am...

Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I have a list of the Government speakers, Minister.

Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: There is no point. It is like Croke Park — there is nowhere to hide.

Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: The Minister can be sure of that, he and I together.

Seanad: Nursing Home Standards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hoctor, to the House. She has had a difficult couple of weeks but if the job was easy, they would not get good people to do it.

Seanad: Nursing Home Standards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: The debate concerns an issue I have raised time and again in the past couple of years following the Leas Cross issue. I take on board many of the points made by Senator Fitzgerald in her contribution and I want to hear the Minister of State's response. I have had reservations from the beginning, which I have raised repeatedly, about setting up a new group of inspectors to check nursing...

Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Well done.

Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: He is a man I might acknowledge is related to me and, I might acknowledge to the Fine Gael people, although he might be slow to admit it, a man whose people came from a house in south Connemara that is a very strong Fine Gael house before he moved up to the next county. I welcome him and it is great to see him looking so well. With the permission of the House I wish to share my time with...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: In joining with the congratulations to the American President-elect, we should also consider in general terms how his election affects Ireland. The House will be aware that during the course of the campaign Senator Obama made very worrying comments about how he would deal with foreign-based American industry. If he brings to fruition his proposal to stop the repatriation of profits and...

Seanad: Broadcasting Standards: Statements (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I am delighted to have the opportunity to say a few words on this matter. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Having listened to the debate it seems it is difficult to get the balance right. I do not pretend to know the answers concerning broadcasting standards. There are certain types of programmes on the air of which I do not approve, but which I could not possibly ban. For...

Seanad: Broadcasting Standards: Statements (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: That is my view and there is no place for it in society. I suggest not so much that such programming should be banned, but that it should be singled out as something which the community does not accept and that we should not make jokes about the weakest members of society or some disability with which such people are born or must cope. When it comes to the portrayal of sex and sexuality on...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: On-line voting.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: How can that be done when one of them will be in Roscrea and one will be in Dublin?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Joe O'Toole: They are in the regions.