Results 81-100 of 1,019 for speaker:P J Sheehan

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Can we have an approximate date?

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has examined the proposal to change Irish time to central European time; the legislative requirements necessary to effect such a change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27564/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has had discussions with the British Government regarding the proposal to change their time zone to central European time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27565/10]

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: He was not invited.

Written Answers — Misuse of Drugs: Misuse of Drugs (22 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether her response to the import, production, sale and supply of dangerous head shop products has been completely inadequate to date; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that thousands of persons continue to be put at risk as new legal highs such as Whack and the cocaine substitute Amplified and other new drug...

Departmental Appointments (17 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself that the top level appointments committee gives reasonable scope for appointments from outside the public service and outside the appointing Departments [24775/10]

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: They tell me Deputy Dermot Ahern is running too.

Written Answers — Departmental Reviews: Departmental Reviews (16 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the review of the Equality Authority; the costs associated with that review; the further position regarding the report conducted by Department of Justice and Law Reform; the cost of that report; the main recommendations of that report; if he will publish same; and if he will make a statement...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: The Minister of State was in Bandon six months ago and we are still waiting for the money he promised us.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: The Minister of State promised a blank cheque to Skibbereen and Bandon six months ago.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: Who created the crisis?

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: If the Minister of State is so convinced of-----

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: I rise tonight to state that I have no confidence in the Taoiseach or his tired, stale and incompetent Government. I wished to address the ladies and gentlemen of the Government but there are no ladies present.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: There are no ladies present on the Government side. It is time for the Government to change the team captain.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: I have served the people of south-west Cork in politics in this House for more than 25 years. I am a realist and I know we do not have the numbers on this side of the House to force a change but the people opposite have that choice tonight. If it does not happen today, it will happen very soon. The Government has bankrupted the State and mortgaged its people for decades to come. It has...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: I will deal with him. This man, the Taoiseach, who sailed on a high tide, now finds himself on the rocks by taking every shortcut around the map. He sailed with the encouragement of dinner friends from the banks and his so-called friends also dined under the canvas of the Galway tent and built towers in Babel on every mucky site they could get their grubby hands on.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: There are over 20 former Ministers and Ministers of State who have been retired or downsized during the life of this Government.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: It is a tired, stale and incompetent Government which has run out of lifebelts and is using the deck planks to keep the engines running in a forlorn hope that one day it may reach landfall. God help us. The Government's policies of supporting the speculators and bankers in the Galway tent have failed with catastrophic consequences for every man, woman and child in this country. Has the...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: I listened to him and admired him, although his own party did not.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: The Government should act patriotically and fall on its sword. It is time it did so.