Results 1,441-1,460 of 2,412 for speaker:Niall Ó Donnghaile
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: -----to Westminster.
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: People voted for us because we abstain from Westminster.
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Senator cannot tell me why people did or did not vote for-----
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Senator Kieran O'Donnell's party abstains from the North. He has some cheek.
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: What bits would the Senator give up? What would he tell his kids to give up? Would it be the Irish language Act or marriage equality rights-----
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: -----or access to an inquest? What rights would he tell his family or his constituency to give up?
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: The biggest diversion here today is Senator Kieran O'Donnell coming in here and talking like this. He has diverted the whole debate.
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Were they?
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I think the Senator will find it was quite the opposite.
- Seanad: Brexit: Motion (22 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: We do not want to and that is the point.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Is it appropriate for me to move my amendment now?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I will discuss it briefly and the Chair can advise me on the right time to move it. Amendment No. 74 relates to the requirement that a legal academic must have continuous practice of four years before being considered for appointment. While we all acknowledge it is important to ensure there is considerable legal experience involved, the requirement is too restrictive. Somebody might be...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: That is a good effort. I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Bulaí fir.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I am conscious when I speak on this Bill that I am among some particularly eminent legal minds. I am genuinely appreciative and in listening mode when it comes to what those Members have said about my amendment.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I do not know about that but go raibh maith agat. I am listening and it is worthwhile hearing those Senators' views on it. I am not at a great divergence from Senator Norris's thinking on it. I heard what he said about amendment No. 74 and having four years experience in practice. I agree with everything he said about the wherewithal and ability of legal academics, and in this amendment I...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I move amendment No. 74:In page 23, to delete line 37, and in page 24, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: “(3) Subsection (1) shall only apply to a legal academic who has qualified as a barrister or solicitor and subsequent subsections of this section, in so far as they relate to a person who is referred to in them as a ‘head of a faculty’ or...
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
Niall Ó Donnghaile: I welcome our visitors to the Public Gallery who are here to listen to the debate on the Bill. I commend and support those in the Labour Party group who proposed the Bill. Sinn Féin will support the passage of the Bill on Second Stage. Like a number of previous speakers, we in Sinn Féin opposed the 2004 referendum. Over the past number of years, we have begun to see the toxic...