Results 121-140 of 349 for speaker:Tom Morrissey

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I acknowledge the role played by the Leader, Senator O'Rourke, and pay tribute to her flexibility and political dexterity in steering this important legislation though the House. I also commend the Minister for Transport who has taken on the challenges and reforms that were overlooked and sidelined by previous occupants in this post.

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage. (13 Jul 2004)

Tom Morrissey: Why do 84% of people travel through Dublin Airport?

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (14 Jul 2004)

Tom Morrissey: Yesterday I stated that this decision was initially taken as a public policy decision, not strictly as a business decision. I would not expect the existing board, which has run a monopoly and has left Shannon and Cork with 10% of the business, to come forward with a business plan under which both Cork and Shannon could operate independently. If it did, it would negate its position to date....

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (14 Jul 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I see some merit in the amendment in regard to the discussions that have taken place over the past 12 months. Banks might rightly have been concerned before the legislation was published but in view of the fact that the legislation is published, the State remains the underwriter and that the Minister said yesterday that he has had no correspondence from any banks in the recent past, the fear...

Seanad: State Airports Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jul 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister on behalf of the Progressive Democrats for bringing this Bill before the Seanad. This legislation is about bringing competition to the regions and to monopolies which have not had such competition heretofore. We are not defeatist about the Bill. We thank the Minister for his courage in taking it on and wish him well in his further reforms of the transport sector in particular.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I echo and support the call for an urgent debate on the future of Aer Lingus. Yesterday, we had the spectacle of Willie Walsh being politically mugged at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Transport. Representatives of parties in this House vied with each other to cosy up to the unions to the greatest extent. In the first sentence of his presentation, Willie Walsh said the airline industry...

Seanad: Public Transport. (7 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I also welcome Deputy Cowen to the House for the first time as Minister for Finance and congratulate him wholeheartedly on his elevation to that challenging Department. Public transport is an issue the Government must address. There is currently a travel pass scheme marketed by Dublin Bus which is widely used by companies, particularly in Dublin. It was first introduced as a benefit-in-kind...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister and the Bill. We are again discussing drink, an issue we have discussed on countless occasions in the past two years. When I was a child, the famous statue of Fr. Matthew was just two miles from my house in County Tipperary. I was often told of the evils of drink when passing the statue. I was told Fr. Matthew was heading for perhaps Cashel or Dublin and was pointing in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: Much has been said in the past few days about our commitments in Government, including our programme for Government and reaching certain targets, especially in regard to overseas development aid. However, there is one area in which we have more than met our commitments, namely, the €40 million which this Government gave to the GAA two weeks ago to help it complete the great facility which...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I am calling for a debate with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I am calling for a debate with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism on our policy on sports development because it is in the programme for Government that we will build a national stadium. We have a national stadium — it is called Croke Park.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I want a debate with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism——

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: It is within the programme for Government——

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: ——that we would have a national sports stadium.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I want a debate on the opening up of our national stadium.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I call on the Leader to arrange a debate on that subject.

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I wish to share my time with Senator Brennan.

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister to the House. I suppose there are a few certainties after tonight. The first is that the Mullingar accord did not feature here tonight. The second is that the Minister has been very forthright in his honest assessment and appraisal of Garda numbers over the past nine to ten years, during the lifetime of previous Governments and going forward into the lifetime of the...

Seanad: Garda Recruitment: Motion. (20 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: The Minister has put to bed the lies of the Opposition for the past two years. He set the record straight on the Government programme. I agree with Senator Cummins that the Minister has engaged in some creative thinking. The Opposition spokesperson in the other House did not do so. The Minister's creative thinking includes changing the location of in-service training, building a new block,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Oct 2004)

Tom Morrissey: Some two weeks ago I requested that we might have a debate with the Minister for Transport on Aer Lingus following Willie Walsh's appearance before a joint Oireachtas committee.