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- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Craughwell is contradicting himself.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Sorry, Minister. As he is aware, there are plans to renovate the Seanad Chamber. I will be recommending to the OPW that it should do something with the echo that is coming from one end of the Chamber. The Minister will continue without interruption.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: We are anxious to move on. Senator Landy has indicated.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: That is okay.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Does the Minister have anything to add?
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: The Senator should look behind him.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: What did he do about it?
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Not at all.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: We do not point fingers in this Chamber, Senator.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: We do not point fingers in this Chamber.
- Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: If the Senator's advice is as good as the Attorney General's advice when he was in government, it is good advice.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: I endorse the comments of my colleague, Senator Craughwell, on the Defence Forces. On many occasions in recent years, Senators have highlighted the fact that morale in the Garda Síochána is at an all-time low. We recently saw how low morale has become with more than 10,000 ordinary members of the Garda taking the decision individually to strike for better pay and conditions. We...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: The bed is still warm.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: It will distract the players.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: The Senator's seat is very precious. I join Senators Landy, Coghlan and others in congratulating the Irish Rugby Football Union on its fantastic bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup on the island of Ireland. As a half-Tipperary man, I am, like Senator Landy, disappointed that Thurles Stadium was not among the GAA stadiums included in the bid. I am also disappointed that Kingspan Breffni...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: We can host, accommodate and facilitate over 33,000 people. We have some of the best hotels on the island and facilitated over 250,000 people over three years at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. I am sure, therefore, that we could facilitate the few who would come to watch a rugby match in Breffni Park.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: Perhaps they might consider it down the road.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Diarmuid Wilson: I agree wholeheartedly with what Senator Rose Conway-Walsh said about the railways. The advice I give to any area with a rail service is to hold on to it, irrespective of how much it would cost to do so, as it is a very important asset. In the part of the country from which I come and the part of the Six Counties governed by Sinn Féin and the DUP where there is the lack of railway...