Results 101-120 of 605 for speaker:John Whelan
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
John Whelan: The Senator should be ashamed of himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
John Whelan: It is just like An Bord Pleanála.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
John Whelan: I am pleased to add my voice and those of my colleagues in the Labour Party to pay tribute and pay our respects to the legendary Mickey Doherty. I had the privilege of knowing him when he was a member of the Midland Health Board. I often covered its meetings in Tullamore and Mickey was a guy who would fill many columns in the Longford Leader. As Senator à Murchú pointed out, he had a way...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I am confused in regard to the reference to a ball of smoke - â¬31 billion is a fair ball of smoke. It was like groundhog day coming in this morning. It was as if 29 February never occurred.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: As I understood it, the Fianna Fáil Party on the Order of Business yesterday was united and unequivocal in its support for the referendum. However, by teatime all that support had evaporated and septic tanks, turf cutting and everything, bar the kitchen sink, have been thrown into the equation and support is clearly conditional. It is a dangerous to raise people's expectations on what is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: That is a question the Senator should ask himself and his own deputy leader to be fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: As today is officially the first day of spring, I commend the Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht, Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, and Mr. Conor Skehan of the Peatland Council for the Trojan work they are doing in trying to resolve the turf cutting issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: As one who comes from the heart of the bogs and who cut turf, as did my family, I am cognisant of the emotional attachment to land, turf cutting and turbary rights. A forum is concluding in Athlone today at which Mr. Conor Skehan with Judge John Quirke have tried to facilitate families. It is important to note that only 53 raised bogs out of 1,400 across the country are affected by the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: No. I simply want to draw the attention of the House to the matter because it is fair and good work. Others who seek confrontation and protest on the matter are leading people up a cul-de-sac or a boithrÃn at which there is no good. With the permission of the Cathaoirleach I commend the efforts in the pipeline by the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairà Quinn, to resolve the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: That is in Germany.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: We are having a referendum. Has the Senator not heard that?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: They can discuss the septic tanks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: Unbelievable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I want to put on the record something that must never be forgotten by the House or the country, that being, our banks have brought the country to the brink of ruination. They walked the last Government into a haymaker when they suckered it into the bailout and turned private debt into sovereign debt. In the context of our debate on the fiscal treaty, I call on the Leader to tell the Minister...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: Senator Byrne is very original.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I am pleased Senator O'Brien has given me the opportunity to address the school building programme. I had not intended to raise it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: It is uncanny that Fianna Fáil still has not learned to see the wood for the trees. It is â¬1.5 billion for 200 new schools and 49 major extensions. It will lead to 15,000 construction jobs, which is not to be scoffed at by the country's builders-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: Portlaoise is due to get seven new primary schools. For 30 years, and under the Fianna Fáil regime, children have been taught in prefabs in Portlaoise in which their parents went to school. It is nothing sort of a scandal that generation upon generation-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I commend the perseverance of people like the parish priest of Portlaoise, Fr. John Byrne.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: He persevered against the odds.