Results 1-11 of 11 for nui speaker:Joe O'Toole

Did you mean: nbi speaker:284?

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Jan 2010)

Joe O'Toole: Taking up the last point made by Senator Fitzgerald, I want to be careful not to give the predictable response. The Government made a rash, uninformed and overly quick decision on the NUI. It was done without sufficient consultation and in the course of a review of third level education, but I will wait to see what the Minister has to add to it. In the meantime, there are a number of...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Joe O'Toole: ...its mind here than in the Lower House. For those people that is the case. Let me get back to the basic issues here. I can no longer look straight in the face graduates of universities other than NUI and Trinity, and try to tell them that I accept that they do not get a vote 30 years after the people decided differently. I cannot accept that point, nor can I say that the vocational...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Joe O'Toole: ...a meeting with the Minister to discuss them he said he could not meet with them until the end of the week following the debate on the matter in the Dáil. Yesterday, he spoke about the matter in NUI Cork and on radio. He stated on "Prime Time" last night that there will be no change, that he is sticking with what was decided and that the Government will not reverse the proposals. Ní...

Seanad: Death of Former President: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Apr 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I wish to offer the condolences of the Independent Members to the family of one of the most exemplary and outstanding supporters of the NUI constituency. Dr. Hillery always took a great interest in that constituency and was a close supporter of my colleague, Senator Quinn. He was also the Senator's near neighbour and good friend. Dr. Hillery attended last year's election count, which was...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Joe O'Toole: ...I raised the matter of the need for a debate on the west. I wish to bring to the attention of the House two developments there. In recent days we read in the newspapers of the development through NUI, Galway of a company which produces sustainable and practical wave energy which produces 1 kilowatt output. This is an extraordinary development which we should discuss. In the University...

Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: ...the RIAI, four will be nominated by the Minister and will not be architects and a person with a legal background will be charged with chairing the board. As well as registering graduates from the NUI and other bodies, it will be also in a position to register those with at least seven years practical experience of performing duties commensurate with those of an architect in the State. I...

Seanad: University College Galway (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (16 Feb 2006)

Joe O'Toole: ...spend the money going to develop those documents on producing textbooks for primary and post-primary schools. If we have something left over, we should invest it in the provisions of this Bill for NUI, Galway, which has as a principal aim forbairt agus cur chun cinn na Gaolainne nó whatever the actual wording is, cé chomh tábhachtach agus atá sé, agus tá an-jab ar siúl acu. They...

Seanad: Maritime Safety Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (20 Apr 2005)

Joe O'Toole: ...for modern use. It would be worthwhile for safety reasons if the Department took the opportunity to have a new survey done of the lakes in the Shannon. I suggest the department of oceanography in NUI Galway could do the survey. It is not satisfactory to be using charts prepared in 1840. Some of the towns such as Dromineer are not marked and towns and villages on the Shannon are not...

Seanad: Address by Mr. John Hume, MEP. (3 Mar 2004)

Joe O'Toole: On behalf of the Independent benches, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Mr. Hume to the House. It has always been a continuing difficulty which I have discussed with Mr. Hume on many occasions that because he has had so many titles, we never knew whether to call him the Right Honourable, or my honourable friend, or Excellency. I have always tended to irritate people by referring to him as...

Seanad: Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (26 Feb 2004)

Joe O'Toole: ...of teachers. Army cadets are not included in the legislation in the way gardaí are. Are they new entrants when they finish their cadet and college course, let us say if they do a degree course in NUI Galway? Are they new entrants when they come back into the system at that point?

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Joe O'Toole: I can assure Senator Ross he has been an NUI voter for many years. I also support what Senator Hayes said about his absolute courage at all times. I remember meeting him here in 1988-89 during the talks with Gerry Adams, which had begun at that stage. I asked him if he was very busy meeting many people and he said none of the party leaders, including those of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or...