Results 61-80 of 501 for speaker:Maurice Hayes

Seanad: Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed). (16 Apr 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I welcome the Minister of State and sympathise with him because he has an almost impossible task, particularly when dealing with a hugely emotive condition such as cancer.

Seanad: Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed). (16 Apr 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I congratulate the Minister of State on the frankness of his contribution. As Senator O' Meara has underlined, it is important that we have an open debate on this matter and that people begin to understand the nature of a strategy and its basis. I hope he will stick to his strategy. It is easy to respond to pressure and distribute money and resources in penny packages around the place but if...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (16 Apr 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I too am grateful to the Leader for arranging the debate and to the other leaders for allowing me to participate in it. It is difficult that we are not totally informed of what is going on. We must deal with what we see, the public press and what we can infer from people's body language. None of us wishes to make a delicate situation more difficult to resolve. Senator Dardis asked us to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I, too, support the request for a debate on Northern Ireland, which is timely. There is never a good time to do it but there is no point in putting it off. We did have a truncated debate just before the adjournment and the peace process is in rather worse condition that it was then and than we had hoped and anticipated. Like other Senators, I hope we can have a debate that avoids...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: Not for the first time this week I find myself supporting Senator Brian Hayes, in this case on the question of the boy scouts. I think it is deplorable that the bishops should have intervened in the way they have. I know people on both sides of the scouting movement who have been working with great courage, diligence and perseverance in recent years to bring this merger about. They have dealt...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (8 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to the House and I thank the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, for his clear, helpful and constructive statement. It was also a privilege to listen to the perceptive and thoughtful analysis of Senator Mansergh, who contributed so much in a previous incarnation to these activities. The important part of the statement is that the Governments...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I support the call for the Seanad to mark the Special Olympics and I agree that the introduction of the Disability Bill would be an appropriate way of doing so. It is important, in symbolic terms, to stress that the Special Olympics are about more than games; they involve allowing people to express their full potential and encouraging others to develop a consciousness of the needs and dignity...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Joint Investigation Teams) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (14 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I welcome the thrust and purpose of the Bill which no sensible person could oppose. As has been said, crime does not know any boundaries. Large-scale crime is increasingly organised on an international basis and, with international terrorism, must be dealt with. I do not have any difficulty commending the Bill to the House. Like other Members, I have some concerns with which, I am sure, the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I apologise for asking a question about a minor matter. Among all the big guns, I feel as if I am using a pea-shooter. The matter to which I wish to refer is one of local interest. Senator McHugh yesterday raised the question of roaming charges for mobile phones, which is important both symbolically and practically. When the Leader raises that matter with the Minister, will she also consider...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I raise a matter that is entirely non-contentious and have an interest to declare – I am a member of the committee of patrons of the Special Olympics. I hope this issue can be dealt with in an entirely non-political way. Those involved in organising the Special Olympics would not like it any other way. Will the Leader of the House ask the Minister for Health and Children to make available...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: And keep the matter under review.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I feel a little like a well-known golfer; I am coming second to everybody. However, he has started to win, too.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I accept that. It is reasonable to deal with this matter in that way. It would be helpful if the Minister of State recognised the underlying principle in the point being made by Senators Quinn and McDowell. As a director of a company, I am affected by this. There should be some voice for directors, who, in many ways, are being made subject to much of the regulatory activity. I strongly...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I would prefer to see the Minister operating under the powers afforded to him under section 46(1) regarding the addition of people to the board.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: It is a case of moving from possibility to potentiality.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: The bones of what Senator McDowell is looking for may be in paragraph (h) which gives some of the functions of the supervisory body as "to co-operate with the recognised accountancy bodies and other interested parties in developing standards relating to the independence of auditors and to monitor the effectiveness of those standards". It could be helpful if some sort of gloss on what is meant...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: I take the point made by Senator O'Toole. I know what it is like to be part of an investigatory body when a case comes up and one has to go back to the sponsoring bodies to seek funding. It is proper that the authority should not have to face such a situation. With regard to the limit that the Minister may specify, does the Minister anticipate specifying a set limit or reviewing it year by...

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: There are difficulties when a body is both regulatory and arbitratory, in that the body has to build Chinese walls inside its own organisation so that the same people are not engaged in the investigation as were involved in the original decision. It might be easier to proceed along the lines that Senator Coghlan has suggested.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: There is an enormous difference between the public interest and what the public is interested in. Quite a lot of what the public is interested in is not in the public interest.

Seanad: Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (28 May 2003)

Maurice Hayes: In all legislation relating to ombudsmen there is a presumption that people will exhaust domestic remedies. If there was a presumption that people making a complaint should have used the normal processes of the organisations, power could then be reserved to the supervisory body. On occasion, there might be an appalling case where people recognise that there was no point in sending them back...