Results 141-160 of 5,865 for speaker:Frank Feighan

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I call on the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to come to the House to explain a blunder in waste management plans, the intention of which is to reduce and minimise waste, not use landfill sites. However, when county councils dig up roads and remove tar, they cannot take it to a landfill site and it must be transported 30 miles to the nearest dump because it is considered a...

Seanad: Strategic Rail Review Report: Statements (Resumed). (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: The strategic rail review report is comprehensive and took a long time to produce. Over ten years ago I participated in a protest march from Sligo and the towns on the Sligo line such as Ballymoate, Collooney, Carrick-on-Shannon and Longford. If that protest had not taken place and if 500 people had not come to Leinster House, that line would now be closed. No funding was put into it. I am...

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for his report. I also thank the Leader of the House for ensuring that this debate on decentralisation should take place. I called for such a debate last October and on numerous occasions since.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I was elected to Roscommon County Council in 1999 from the town of Boyle. There are many towns like Boyle all around the country. It is not a county town or even a major town. However, it is a town with a proud past. It was a market town with many shops and businesses, some of which had been there for three generations. However, in the past 20 years a huge shift has taken place and the...

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: The Senator is referring to 1982 but we could go back to 1916.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: There is a growing problem of elderly people turning up at airports to travel to funerals or visit relations who do not have the relevant photo identification. Some of them do not realise they need a passport or driving licence. I ask that the relevant Minister come into the House to outline proposals that might alleviate this problem, which is causing serious distress to many elderly people...

Seanad: Autism Services: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for a detailed and informative speech. Staff recruitment and retention is a major difficulty facing the health boards in many areas, including services for people with autism. I spoke here less than two months ago about the recruitment of a senior orthodontist in County Roscommon. While I accept that the Western Health Board...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I wish to pay tribute to the people from NAMI who came to Dublin last Tuesday and protested outside the gates of Leinster House regarding funding for people with special needs. There is a serious situation in Listowel, County Kerry. Seven pupils of the Nano Nagle school for those with intellectual disability are due to graduate next Tuesday. Three sets of parents are refusing to allow their...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I ask the House to condemn the ESB for closing 27 retail outlets, most of them in the west. Five years ago County Roscommon had four ESB shops, but now not one is left open. Does the ESB wish to continue serving the entire population of the country or just the major population centres? The Taoiseach intervened with the lending institutions with regard to the cost of borrowing. He should now...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the Bill, although with some reservations. I believe it is being pushed through too fast. It would have been preferable if more time had been taken to research the Bill and examine some of its specific points. There are, however, aspects to the proposed legislation that should be welcomed. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: Unfortunately, the separate room is usually licensed, as is most of the building. Therefore, it can be very difficult to define—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: Is the Minister able to—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: That is welcome. We have the wrong system. When I had a bar and somebody asked me if I would buy a certain person a drink, I was very conscious that that person might have come out to have only two or three drinks and that he or she might have been driving. I thought it common courtesy to suggest to him or her that somebody wanted to buy him or her a drink and give him or her the opportunity...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I am actually making—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I want to clarify what I said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: As I speak, registers are being drawn up by each county council of listed buildings in their area. There are thousands of such buildings. Many of the owners are pleased because they have certain facades on their shops and, perhaps, sash windows. The Government has provided only a pittance for the work involved. Roscommon County Council has only €40,000, yet 300 or 400 houses are being...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I join Senator Norris in calling for extra resources to tackle the so-called crack epidemic. If we fail to tackle it, we will be open to the situation which developed in New York some years ago when it reached epidemic proportions. It was only when the users moved to a softer drug that the level of violent crime was reduced. My main reason for speaking relates to the Special Olympics. I join...

Seanad: Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed). (25 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister back to the House. He has been one of the most efficient Ministers attending the House and I thank him for bringing these reports to the attention of the Seanad. The Minister mentioned the need for communications and, indeed, the reports could take a leaf out of the Minister's book because he has proved to be a good communicator in articulating health problems around...

Seanad: Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed). (25 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: She is certainly an exceptional lady. Among the Minister's recommendation is the abolition of the health boards. Opinion is divided on whether these boards are a waste of money but some people say privately that they are very political. I imagine there will be strenuous opposition to their demise. A little over two months ago in this House, I said that while the health boards were a problem...