Results 41-60 of 1,597 for speaker:Cecilia Keaveney
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I know what your party was doing when it was in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: Tell us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: That is interesting coming from Senator Norris, considering his double-jobbing between radio and television.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I commend Senator Norris on naming a number of programmes that were aired last night, although I did not get to see any of them. I note that none of them concerned the people who are currently involved in double-jobbing between radio and television programmes. Senator Norris is right when he says that we should try to expand the amount of talent within our national broadcasting company, and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I just wanted to give an outline of how one decision-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: -----by the NRA meant that thousands of people were discommoded in the north west yesterday. Roads are closed today, thus discommoding thousands of others. We need an urgent debate on why we cannot cope with a small bit of snow and ice.
- Seanad: Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I wish to raise with the Minister the issue of opinion and suspicion. Although we are dealing with national legislation, international elements of corruption have been evident recently. The "Panorama" programme on Monday considered allegations against FIFA officials and issues of match-fixing. Court cases have also been taken against people in Germany. I know this legislation is targeted...
- Seanad: Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: It takes in issues of suspicion as well. If there is a suspicion that there is ongoing national or international organised crime, do we have a strong enough national capability to deal with it? Does the Minister agree that we should have an international group, akin to the World Anti-Doping Agency which considers drugs issues, specifically to consider the sporting area?
- Seanad: Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: The Minister may have more time for it now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I am concerned at the lack of progress on dealing with real issues in this House. As was alluded to earlier, we spent much of the time on the Order of Business yesterday and it left less than an hour for the serious issue of all-island sex offenders register. We ran out of time when only the main spokespersons had got to speak-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: -----or barely got to speak, and I do not think it will be any different today. It is an issue I have been raising constantly to try to get on the agenda and while it got on, we got to speak for approximately two minutes, in which time no one can speak in any level of depth. I have three issues today. How do we get the business here as concise as possible so we get to deal with real issues?...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I am asking the Leader how do we make ourselves more relevant.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: Of the two other issues, one is that we have real snow sitting out on the ground outside and on the roofs of the Houses, and on our television pictures at home in Donegal. I ask the Leader for a debate and to bring the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: It was ruled out that I could raise it as an Adjournment, but I had an Adjournment down three times.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I had three Adjournments down on this issue and they were accepted because I used the words "the North" in them. If I put "the North" back into it, let us have a discussion about how analogue and digital switch-over for the island of Ireland works.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: I must play the game in terms of how I get issues raised here. The other issue I would like to debate is not FIFA, but corruption in sport. It is about allegations in Ireland-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: There are allegations of corruption in sport in Ireland. I would like a debate here on whether we need an international agency-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: -----to oversee corruption, match fixing and other associated issues.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2010)
Cecilia Keaveney: May I seek some advice?