Results 321-340 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I will find another place to do it.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: On a point of information, I did not get a letter. I collected my post before coming to the House but I did not get a letter.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: It is not agreed.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Before I start, I ask the Leas-Chathaoirleach for a ruling. We got a letter which prohibits us from naming anybody in the Seanad. That is a breach of our constitutional right. I accept fully-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: On a point of order, there are a number of persons from whom I will quote. It is unfair to those on the other side who might like to rebut my points if I do not name the authors of the statements I am giving.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: It makes no sense.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Is it true that we cannot name President Obama, President Putin or anybody else in these Houses in the future?
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I accept the Leas-Chathaoirleach's rule-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----or I do not accept the Leas-Chathaoirleach's ruling but I will abide by it, which is somewhat different.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I support this amendment on the basis that it reflects, as I am sure it did, what was intended in amendment No. 4, that the two parents shall be a father and a mother. That conforms well with all of the amendments which I put down and pressed at Committee Stage, and, consequently, could not re-enter here. The Minister stated, in an earlier contribution in response to Senator Power, that...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I will withdraw his name.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The person who took them to task and sought to have their business boycotted stated, when his first child was born, that "It will break my son's heart to realise he hasn't got a mother".
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Absolutely. It is about having two parents.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: It is about two parents. The Minister for Health, and I will not name him either-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----said in the Dáil in 2010 that "Every child has a right to a mother and a father and, as much as is possible, the State should vindicate that right. That is a much more important right than that of two men or [two] women having a family". All of this apparently is being abandoned for reasons which I would like-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Yes, I know, but-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: If the Acting Chairman had listened to my opening remarks-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----he would know the basis on which I am supporting it. He can ask the proposer of it if he intends that it be a mother and a father. My interpretation of it is that this is what is intended by the reference to "two parents". There is overwhelming evidence against what is being done here. Everybody knows it is being done for a singular reason, namely, to assist the referendum. My...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Sciencecovered an interview survey by the National Health Service carried out between 1997 and 2013 and it makes various points about children raised in same-sex couples. I will not go into the detail of it other than to make this point which is worth noting. The study's author, and it names the author, assessed "the variety of...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: That is a different statement.