Results 181-200 of 204 for speaker:Tony Mulcahy

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: The Senator is good at misinterpreting what people say. I will clarify the issue presently.

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, to the House. Water is a resource that is essential to life. Every day we consume vast quantities of water, washing ourselves, and our clothes and dishes, flushing toilets, cleaning cars and drinking it. Industry uses it as a key input into the production process. Irish people use approximately 150 l of water each day. The single biggest...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: The issues of service delivery and medical cards were discussed recently in the House. However, the issue of family income support has not been addressed. I have been contacted by a number of constituents about family income support. People in receipt of FIS receive notification of cessation of payments six weeks prior to the date on which it will cease. They are told when they apply for...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I wish everybody a happy new year. I am delighted we will have a debate on disability but that debate should be as informed as possible. On her second visit to the House the Minister outlined that she was carrying out a value for money audit of disability service providers, in particular those who provide intellectual disability services, and the cost of running those businesses on a day to...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: There is a senior Minister in charge.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to cull the practice of retired public and civil servants, who have taken substantial lump sums from the State and who are in receipt of State pensions, returning to State employment in one form or another, namely, nurses, gardaí, teachers, etc? This practice is wrong. Many people are looking for work yet people have pensions...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: Some former Deputies left the other House with €250,000 and €200,000 in lump sums and with pensions of €150,000. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans in this regard in the coming budget. We seem to pre-debate the budget here every week, but none of us know what is in it, apart from the Minister and the Cabinet. Will the Leader ask if the Minister has any...

Seanad: Access to Central Treasury Funds (Commission for Energy Regulation) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (26 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Access to Central Treasury Funds (Commission for Energy Regulation) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome the Minister back to the House. By passing this Bill we will enable the Commission for Energy Regulation to access funding through the National Treasury Management Agency at low rates of interest thus enabling the establishment of a safety framework for the petroleum sector. As Members of the Oireachtas we have a duty to taxpayers to spend their hard-earned money in the most...

Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome the Minister of State. However, I do not welcome the Keane report and I placed that fact firmly on the record last week. The report, which took five months to compile, is farcical. I concur with much of what Senator Reilly said. Like her, I would be interested in obtaining some details with regard to Mr. Declan Keane and his background. Mr. Keane adhered to the brief he was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I echo Senator Conway's sentiments. I did not realise until yesterday that one of the victims of the recession was Proctor & Gamble because Fairy liquid was used in the building of most of the buildings in this country. That lasts about ten years and therefore many of them will crumble and fall down. I was delayed getting here yesterday when I am sure the issue of the Keane report was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: It was defended in the Dáil yesterday to the effect that it is intended to send our children and their parents to the poorhouse; we will give them a council house. That is a great cure for the problem after we fattened the bankers by giving them €70 billion and let off the biggest borrowers and developers. We did not ask them to pay anything back but rather let them get off scot free....

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: That is more money. Senator MacSharry brought a Bill before the House recently on mortgages on houses. It was a good Bill that required some touching up. We have a responsibility to all the people of this country and to the 30 children who sat in the Gallery a while ago to work together to find a solution. Another Bill came before the Dáil yesterday and I have a question-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I am sorry. Another good Bill came before the Dáil yesterday from the Fianna Fáil grouping. Last night, Senator Jim D'Arcy invited representatives of New Beginning to give us a briefing in the Seanad but unfortunately not all of those who should have been present were present. I suggest that representatives of New Beginning be invited to this House if it is possible; I do not know if the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: -----and the raiméis that came out two years ago because I will not accept or stand over it. I was challenged in the House last night by Senator Byrne - we were all challenged - on whether we had the courage to state that and stand over it. Yes, I have the courage. As a member of my party and a Member of this Seanad I will not put up with that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: We must get them in here to defend it.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I join with colleagues in welcoming the Minister to the House. Today we are at a crossroads in the history of this State. A wasteland of inaction and mismanagement by a succession of Governments over the past ten years has left our finances in tatters, another generation lost to emigration and our economic sovereignty surrendered to the Troika of the EU-IMF-ECB. I do not want to dwell on...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: Like my colleagues, I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I thank him for his comprehensive presentation. I am somewhat at odds with Senator Mooney. I have no doubt that the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, will hold the senior ministry and that he will have the drive, spirit and enthusiasm to carry it to the end. We will see who is the Minister of State after a four or five year...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I find myself disagreeing absolutely with a Senator on one item, while agreeing with the same Senator on another. The Taoiseach has unquestionably stepped up to the mark in the past six or seven months in dealing with the massive economic crisis facing the country. I have absolute faith that he will carry us through the next four or five years, with our colleagues in the Labour Party, in...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Sep 2011)

Tony Mulcahy: I was contacted recently by a number of couples and also mortgage brokers who are trying to acquire mortgages from different banks. Even cast-iron cases of people in full-time employment are finding it very difficult to obtain a mortgage. The banks are now inquiring if housing estates are bonded even though these estates are unfinished and they also look for a guarantee that the local...