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Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I am asking for a specific debate on our national broadcaster, which has specific responsibilities and which is funded by the hard-pressed taxpayers of this country. We should expect better and we should get better.

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I welcome what the Minister of State has said. I do not in any way deny his commitment to resolving this very complex and difficult situation. We do not have time to prevaricate. I hear anecdotally that some people - to what extent I am not sure - because of an expectation that something will be done are trying to position themselves to avail of it. This needs to be watched and checked....

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Will the likely fall-out and impact on the banks be in the report?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I want to add my voice to the chorus of calls for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to come to the House to debate the important topic that is his responsibility. There are good budgetary reasons for doing this. We are now half way between the last budget and the next, which will be particularly difficult. The soft options are gone, given the failure to tackle the real issues...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister to the House and I welcome the Second Stage debate on this Bill. I welcome it because as I have said before in the House, I am concerned about the distortion that is taking place on human rights. In places like the UN and in other international fora, it is no longer about human rights, but adult rights. This will help balance the situation in favour of children, and...

Seanad: Review of White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements, Questions and Answers (9 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I put my question to the Minister of State in committee as well. The issue engages me because of what some countries are doing. Where do we stand on imposing abortion? This is carried out especially by the USA, where there is a strong abortion industry, in some of these African countries. What is Ireland's position on the matter? The Minister of State remarked that our embassies will play...

Seanad: Review of White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements, Questions and Answers (9 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Did that include the right to life?

Seanad: Review of White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements, Questions and Answers (9 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State and, as other speakers have said, there is no-one more appropriate to hold his portfolio. I want to raise a number of issues about conditionality as has been mentioned by a number of Senators. I am a little concerned about some of the comments made by the Minister of State and presentations received at committee level. I am concerned that if people are losing...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I am asking that the Leader allow time to debate this issues next Tuesday. I propose that we meet next Tuesday to discuss these issues, including public expenditure, over which there is currently no control, and public service reform.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Yes, I am proposing an amendment to the Order of Business. I refer to an issue in today's newspaper. A voluntary organisation had to bring to our attention the fact that we have failed to tackle the bias in RTE.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I am also calling for a debate on RTE and the bias in it. It is censoring women who regret their abortions.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: It is taking one side in that argument, as it does politically. It is the same as the Labour Party. The Stickies have taken control of the Labour Party.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: There is a residue still left in RTE and it is driving the agenda. It is driving the country in the direction it should not be going.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: This is week in, week out. It was not just yesterday. I have been raising this critical matter for a long time and it should have been tackled by now.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: It is wrong and the Senator knows that.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: It is worrying that the Government is not giving priority to NAMA.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: I thought the Leader might be caddying.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Why are we not sitting next Tuesday?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Jim Walsh: Why are we not sitting the day after the bank holiday?