Results 241-260 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)
Jim Walsh: I have come new to this today, but it is an area in which I have a keen interest because working in ports involves quite a degree of industrial relations management. My colleague who proposed today's amendments will be well aware of the difficulties, because in New Ross we gained considerable traffic and tonnage over the years due to the appalling industrial relations in the Port of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Jim Walsh: I wish to add my voice to those who have raised the issue of lone parents. It is appalling that many families who, as we know from the statistics, struggle economically to rear their children and make ends meet, as well as being below the poverty line, are being abandoned by the Government. As Senator Healy Eames said, the Minister gave a commitment that none of this would be triggered...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)
Jim Walsh: For 40 years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I ask the Leader to have the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport come to the House at an early date. There has been a very successful promotion of the Wild Atlantic Way but unfortunately this is skewing business away from other areas. I refer in particular to the south east, which will be familiar to the Leader. We are also part of the Atlantic coast but unfortunately we do not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----person involved from the UN committee being interviewed. It was a very soft interview by a very good interviewer for whom I have good regard but who unfortunately on this occasion failed to put the difficult questions. The interviewee was allowed to get away with all sorts of disingenuous statements. On the other hand, a representative of the pro-life organisation was rightly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I have always agreed that we would work jointly with them on this but I contest the statement that it is the main committee. It is not. This is an issue between the Irish and British Governments so it is a matter primarily-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: Sorry, excuse me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: It is a matter primarily, in my opinion, for the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Tradeand I concur with my colleague Senator Daly - it is a scandal. I compliment the fact that we have dealt with the Kingsmill documents but it is a disgrace that the British have hidden documents. This means that they are still participating in collusion. If they continue to deny documentation and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: It should be an agenda item for our next meeting so we do not have to take it up on the minutes. In the meantime, when the clerk finds out tomorrow, we will all get an e-mail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: If I could just finish - in the meantime, when the clerk is informed of the decision of the Good Friday Agreement committee tomorrow that it is conveyed to us tomorrow as soon as the clerk is aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: The murder of 34 Irish citizens-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: The murder of 34 Irish citizens------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----with the collusion of the British establishment is unacceptable and is much more important-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: It is much more important-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----than the niceties of what operates between two committees. Let us put our citizens first for a change-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----rather than politicians’ egos on committees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I will put this as a proposal if my simple request is not accepted, that it be an agenda item for next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I am proposing that now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I propose formally that this be an agenda item for next week and I intend to press it. It is a reasonable request and I will press it to a vote in the event of its not being accepted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Jim Walsh: I do not accept that. The written request was to this committee. It is an international matter between two sovereign governments. We referred it to the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement so that it would not feel we had ignored its remit. Primarily it is a function of this committee. We referred it on the basis that we would meet jointly with that...