Results 481-500 of 605 for speaker:John Whelan
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I have a serious concern in this regard.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: That is wrong.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I do indeed. Could the Leader facilitate a discussion - a genuine and open debate - with the Minister for Justice and Equality at some stage in the future on the question of inconsistent sentencing in the courts? I fully acknowledge and respect the separation of powers. I am not speaking out of any contempt. In the past two days, four different people have received six-year sentences -...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: It is important that we discuss this issue in the public interest. A man was sentenced to six years in prison for importing garlic.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: It is a matter of huge public import.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: I am respecting the Judiciary and the separation of powers. I am not speaking in a contemptible fashion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: It is necessary to air the public disquiet on this matter. I am entitled to call for a debate on it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: On a point of order, that is inaccurate. In reality, there are 16 projects across Laoighis-Offaly and seven new schools in Portlaoise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: The Senator knows more about Portlaoise than he does about Meath.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
John Whelan: Senator Byrne is very original.
- 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 (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 (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.