Results 281-300 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Will the Leader arrange an early debate, three weeks from now, on the persecution of Christians across the Middle East? The suggested timing is because the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade has arranged for a number of Christian groups to attend to report and provide background information on what is happening across the Middle East. These groups include Trócaire, Church In...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Will the Leader arrange for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to come to the House soon to deal with the cutbacks in funding for non-national and secondary roads in my county and I am sure in other counties? In Wexford, the allocation has been reduced by €279,000 which will have a detrimental effect on a county which has one of the highest levels of...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: When people are in a distressed state, they are in no position to make any major decision, let alone the decision to take their own lives, and it is irresponsible of Senators to propose it. This is the brave new world they are trying to usher in, and in many other ways also.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: And the universal social charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Security Situation in Kenya: Ambassador of Federal Republic of Kenya (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the ambassador and wish him well on his appointment. We have all followed with alarm what is happening right across parts of Africa, including Kenya, and the Middle East. Every right-thinking person is revolted to see young students with their lives ahead of them and all their ambitions to be realised being slaughtered in the manner in which they were in Kenya. The victims were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I support the timely motion put forward by my colleague, Senator Daly. We have just passed the centenary of that awful atrocity. The New York Timesrecently noted that Armenians say that up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were systematically slaughtered in eastern Turkey through mass killings, forced relocations and starvation. Many historians and legal scholars have called the Armenian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Chairman, we are not here as a elected members of the committee to be led by the nose by the Department. This is a straightforward incident in history on which the members of the committee can take a view. Some may not want to condemn it and some may wish to condemn it. I am in the latter group. I do not think the Department's views are relevant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: On a point of order, we do not all have the same concern. The motion was very clear that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade recognises the suffering and loss of the Armenian people this year, the year of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: That is what the Fine Gael and Labour Party members voted against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Let us call a spade a spade.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: The Government is involved in too much spin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: The Chairman is spinning so much he does not even know when he is doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: We all have work to do, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Are you finished?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: We of all countries should be able to empathise with what is happening in the Mediterranean, seeing our people also suffered that fate in the middle of the 19th century. This has been left to the Italians and other Mediterranean states to deal with. This shows a severe lack of political leadership at EU level where bureaucracy reigns supreme while the interests of citizens are secondary....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I ask that the committee convey to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade a request that the Minister pursue at European Union level some form of immediate support for an effective sea and rescue effort in the Mediterranean.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I do not believe that is the case.

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. These self-congratulatory motions are not exclusive to the current Government side. When we were in government we used to get them as well and they always made me cringe, as this one does a little bit. I was taken by Senator Bacik's nice story about the genesis of Waterford Glass. As someone who lives close to Waterford in the south-east, I...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Senator Bacik is going up in my opinion. As a contrarian in this House, can I say that my party will not be opposing the motion before us? I welcome the appointment of a Minister of State for the new communities because integration is hugely important. The various immigrants to Ireland over the last 20 years in particular have added significantly to, and have enhanced the fabric of, Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State and much of what I wanted to say has been covered. With regard to the undocumented in the United States, perhaps we should put a bit more emphasis on the relationship with the Grand Old Party, GOP. Our traditional connections have been more with the Democratic Party than the Republicans and I know efforts have been made to build that up. There is scope to do...