Results 161-180 of 394 for speaker:James Heffernan
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
James Heffernan: That is fair enough. I take the opportunity to congratulate the Kilmallock senior hurlers on their fantastic victory at the weekend. The celebrations are probably still going on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
James Heffernan: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
James Heffernan: One second. I am just after standing up. I welcome the ambassador, Mr. Abdul Abdelrazek, to the Visitors Gallery and note my support for Senator Averil Power's amendment to the Order of Business. The Maíria Cahill case was raised a couple of times today. I took on board what Sinn Féin said about how the IRA filled a vacuum in terms of policing and that people did not have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
James Heffernan: A mock court was held in 2002. I support Senator O'Brien. The Sinn Féin leadership has to face up to this issue. It is the same type of justice we saw take place in the Catholic Church, namely, things were covered up and perpetrators were moved on to other places to continue on. It needs to make a full disclosure to the authorities North and South about what it knows and who the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
James Heffernan: -----and perpetrators exposed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
James Heffernan: I am not a member of the committee and I thank the Vice Chairman for allowing me to contribute to this discussion. I have some questions for the director general of the agency. Shortly after her appointment she stated in an interview with The Irish Times that in her opinion the EPA should not be racing to prosecute business for non-compliance with environmental licences and regulations....
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
James Heffernan: While the proposal from Fianna Fáil this morning may be a bit of stunt, it is no harm that people are finally starting to listen. A number of people and high profile politicians seem to be jumping on the water charges band wagon. To hear the leader of Sinn Féin say that he will pay the charge one minute and say he will not pay it the next in solidarity with people is a bit of a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
James Heffernan: It is probably worthy of a debate at some stage. The register is not fit for purpose and it needs to be sorted out.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2014)
James Heffernan: I remind Senator Leyden that Israeli Ministers have recently issued a call for the public to arm itself. That is a dangerous departure which will blow that conflict into a full religious one. The Irish Water saga has gone from the sublime to the very ridiculous. Senator Mullins lauded the fact that €100 will be handed over to a person who has a private well. These people never...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: I was speaking to representatives of the homeless services and there was a sad and despondent air amid the news of Mr. Jonathan Corrie dying outside the gates of Leinster House. Mr. Corrie was known to the homeless services as "Teardrop John" because he had a teardrop tattoo on his face. To see the reporting of it, it takes away from the human aspect of this. Mr. Corrie spoke to a friend of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: I intend to. It extended past the Custom House, the Connolly memorial and Store Street Garda station where there was a number of people stretched out inside, and men were huddled in threes and fours in doorways trying to shelter themselves from the cold and wet of that night. We came across an Internet café on Talbot Street where there were a number of lads stretched out all over the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: That is not taking into account those who sleep on couches, who sleep in hallways and who are inside in homeless centres.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: The scale of this is significant. While we can have the debate-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: -----that is fair enough,-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: -----instead of listening to the Minister and us talking about it, and throwing it back and forth,-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: -----why not invite those who are involved?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: With respect-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: -----can I beg the Cathaoirleach's indulgence?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: Can I finish my point? We should open up this House, as has been done previously, to those who are involved at the coalface of homelessness, such as the Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Simon Community,-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
James Heffernan: -----to come in and tell us what it is like and what we can do about it.