Results 521-540 of 5,902 for speaker:Frank Feighan

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: It is a gateway drug to crack cocaine. I agree with Senator Norris about the many social problems which crack cocaine has caused, as we have seen in the United States and elsewhere. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should be invited to the House to outline what resources he needs and what he intends to do to ensure that crack cocaine does not take hold in our cities and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join Senator Kitt in calling for a debate on the western rail corridor. Everything is in place for this decision and it requires funding in the next budget. We need cross-party support on this issue. We know that Iarnród Éireann has been very slow to invest in the west of Ireland and it will have to be brought kicking and screaming to ensure that it does invest in the western rail...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Heritage Week. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of the Environtment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Noel Ahern, for coming to the House to respond to this Adjournment matter, which concerns the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to outline the breakdown of the funding given to promote national heritage week on a county basis. There is also a need...

Seanad: National Heritage Week. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for the broad outline of national heritage week funding. I am a little disappointed the Department does not compile the costs. Will the Minister of State ask if a breakdown of funding to promote national heritage week on a county or heritage site basis can be made available? How could I find out these costs?

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: In an article in a leading Sunday newspaper, a very respected and influential journalist raised the notion that the IRA is able to smuggle large quantities of fuel into this country through ports in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Apparently, the IRA is involved in such an extensive smuggling operation that the original godfather himself, Don Corleone, would be very proud. The...

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "—criticising the €7 million reduction in funding under the Sports Capital Programme for 2005, a reduction of 13% on last year; —disappointed at the obvious regional disparity and inequity in the manner in which monies are allocated under the Sports Capital Programme; —condemning the fact...

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: If the Minister gives that responsibility to the Irish Sports Council, we will not be able to hassle him by saying that certain decisions were too political or not political enough.

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Does the Minister have any spare tickets?

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I am sure it will be on Shannonside Radio in the morning.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: The Senator should move to this side of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join colleagues in condemning the attack on the proposal to award pensions to councillors. Everyone has a go at councillors but it has gone too far this time. Public sector pensions are very attractive and agents of the public sector who virtually act as a public relations department and liaise between constituents and Government and county councils should have their work recognised....

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join with Senator Finucane in calling for the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to examine the way in which additional charges are placed on personal alarms. This scheme now penalises rather than benefits the elderly. I have received numerous complaints in my own constituency in Roscommon about the number of people who cannot afford to pay the additional charge of €165,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I never met the late Liam Lawlor but believe he was a very jovial person among his colleagues. I was shocked when I opened the Sunday Independent on Sunday last. As Senator Tuffy stated, even if the story was true, it was still inappropriate. Reference was made to circulation and what happened with regard to The Sun newspaper in Liverpool, when readers boycotted it. Independent Newspapers has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Senator Leyden outlined the details of the health forums to some Fine Gael councillors, but I do not think the councillors believed him.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Senator Cox outlined the lack of consultation regarding Health Service Executive areas. People now receive enhanced nursing home subventions. The Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children should come to the House to explain a recent piece of correspondence I received which stated that from 20 November 2005, new eligible applicants will receive nursing home subventions but will not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: The Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children should come to the House and tell us whether budgetary constraints will lead to these elderly people being put out on the streets for the winter. It is an outrageous attack on the elderly people of this country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Frank Feighan: We have to welcome a promise to spend €34 billion on infrastructure. However, I am sceptical because this Government reminds me of RTE in the bad old days airing repeat programmes. I am sick of listening to repeats. This money will not address the infrastructural deficit in this election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Frank Feighan: It is being spent on the next general election for this Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Frank Feighan: The people of the west have been let down again. This was an opportunity to re-open the Claremorris to Sligo route but it has been put on the long finger. Years ago we complained about trans-European networks. If I want to go from Sligo to Waterford I will not go through Galway, Limerick or Cork but through Athlone. This is not an Atlantic corridor or Pacific highway, or whatever it is called...