Results 1,781-1,800 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I ask the Leader -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: That is untrue. The only occasions I have not been here -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: ----- were when I was away on parliamentary business -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: ----- and a family wedding last week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: The Leader has not answered the question of why we are not sitting next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: There is no reason we should not sit the day after a bank holiday. He does not have a credible answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: Is the Leader going to give us an answer on why we are not sitting on Tuesday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: Can I ask him the question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: Senator Norris is overlooking Henry VIII-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: -----whose libido was the motivation-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I was pleased that the Leader accepted full responsibility the other day for the ordering of business in this House. It gives me no pleasure to have to criticise this on a regular basis. Yesterday, we had a two and a half hour sos and the House adjourned at 6 p.m. Today we are adjourning at 1.45 p.m. and the House will not sit next Tuesday because Monday is a bank holiday. This is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I would ask-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I sincerely urge the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: -----to make time for serious debates. There are a whole range of issues. The growth rates-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I will not give way.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I made no personal aspersion which I need to withdraw. I am suggesting to the Leader that there are important issues-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: No. There is nothing that I have said that I need to withdraw. The growth forecasts have been halved. Earlier this year, I told the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, that we would not, between 2011 and 2015, achieve an increase in GDP of more than an average of 1% per annum. Our GDP now stands at 0.7% and was double that when the forecasts were made. The...
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: No.
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: I followed the debate with interest. Most, although not all, of the contributors made accurate points and the Minister made a subtle distinction between behaviour orientation and other constitutional matters. I debated this issue with Senator Power late one night and I have do difficulty with the Bill, with the exception of the provisions in section 2 on positive discrimination. The Bill...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2012)
Jim Walsh: Everybody is in agreement that marriage is a fairly fundamental institution in society and that it is important that those who solemnise marriage meet certain criteria and a certain standard and that it is a serious event. We have seen examples of it being trivialised. There is one example in the headlines with people doing it for the publicity and maybe the money they will gain from the...