Results 141-160 of 9,840 for speaker:Pat Moylan

Seanad: Report of Strategic Task Force on Alcohol: Statements (Resumed). (2 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Power, to the House and I thank the Leader for raising this matter again. It is important that Members are given an opportunity to put down markers and state their position with regard to the important report on alcohol which we had before us some time ago. I will speak in general about the problems associated with young people and alcohol. The issue...

Seanad: Report of Strategic Task Force on Alcohol: Statements (Resumed). (2 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I thank the Minister for explaining these issues in detail. A passport must be renewed after a period of time. If misleading information was given in the initial application, there should be some mechanism in place to allow for the passport to be revoked when an application is made for renewal.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: The Day of the Jackal.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: Next Wednesday.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (3 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: On Tuesday, 7 December 2004.

Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (14 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and particularly welcome this short Bill. The Minister of State spelled out clearly the improvements and developments that have taken place around the country. Many local authority members have pursued the issue of affordable housing for many years. Several former local authority members are now Members of this House. They saw the need for...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Peace Process: Motion. (15 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I move: "That Seanad Éireann: —commends the Government for its handling of the peace process to date; —notes the comprehensive proposals published by the two Governments that the parties have been considering; —urges the Government to continue to secure agreement and closure on what, by any standard, is a hugely impressive, indeed a landmark, package; and —acknowledges that the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: There have been many requests to the Leader for debates in the new year, so we will be very busy. I wish to ask the Leader for a debate on waste management and particularly litter control, the problems that occur when people dispose of refuse in good faith to unregistered collectors and dumping on roadsides. There is a recent and more worrying trend of dumping illegally on both sides of the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Power, to the House. This is an important Bill. I was surprised by some of the contributions by experienced Members who have served on health boards. As a former health board member, I tell Fine Gael Senators that that party spent considerable time in power when the charges were in place.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: However, the people saw fit to get rid of the Fine Gael-led Government. It is important to state that Fine Gael was in power at a time when health boards were tracking family members all over the country to try to get money from them to pay for relatives in institutions. I have visited many elderly people who paid three quarters of their pension to the health board and were happy to do so...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: The Minister of State, Deputy Sean Power, is in the House to put through legislation which will enable charges to be imposed in a proper and legal fashion. The Minister has offered to pay back some money to the elderly people involved. It must be remembered that many of these people owned property worth hundreds of thousands of euros which will be left to their next-of-kin when they die. Many...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: The Government has delivered more since 1997 for the less well-off than any Government in the history of the State.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: We want to recognise this. The chief executive officers and senior executives of the health boards read the original Bill and knew of the charge. They erred and we have an obligation to pay back some of the money charged in error.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: Nobody in their senses would say that every shilling should be repaid or that the elderly should be provided with nursing home accommodation for free. The Opposition should talk to those directly involved, not to family members who see an opportunity to put money in their back pockets when elderly relatives die, which is what some want. However, the same family members would not take care of...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Dec 2004)

Pat Moylan: I referred to the less well-off but I include the well-off.

Seanad: Sugar Beet Industry: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2005)

Pat Moylan: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to the House, on this his first occasion to attend Private Members' business. I compliment him and the Minister for Agriculture and Food on their excellent work. Valid points have been made by speakers in support of the amendment. From meeting farmers involved in beet production, I have learned of...

Seanad: Sugar Beet Industry: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2005)

Pat Moylan: Under what Government?

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Moylan: I ask the Leader to request the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to take urgent action against persons who drive uninsured and untaxed motor vehicles. At present when the Garda stop such uninsured and untaxed drivers and impound the vehicles, it finds the people concerned call at the pound with a car transporter and remove the car that night or the next day. They drop the car on...

Seanad: Appropriation Act 2004: Statements. (8 Feb 2005)

Pat Moylan: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.