Results 81-100 of 605 for speaker:John Whelan
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: The forum, as set out by the Minister in the Bill, clearly has the capacity to be wholly and fully representative of all the stakeholders in the community - commercial users, householders, workers and so on and there is no requirement or necessity to enshrine that in the primary legislation. Clearly, the Minister is listening here and responding, but now he is being castigated for...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: In regard to the amendment, I am saying the forum will be able to address and tease out all of these issues in the best interest of communities and the public and people in places like Strokestown in County Roscommon. I proposed someone from Roscommon should be on the forum, because Roscommon people have suffered most in regard to bad quality water that nobody can drink, thanks to 20 years...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I would like to see this forum established as early as possible. I would like it to be as representative as possible and I believe the Minister is going about it in the correct way.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I was rudely interrupted in speaking to the amendment to section 7 regarding a public water forum and I wish to set the record straight. I resent those interruptions. I said that it occurred to me that certain people in the House were inebriated by the exuberance of their own verbosity.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: For the record, I was-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I am trying.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I wish to clarify-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: The Minister is doing his utmost to listen to the public and we would be grateful if the Members from Sinn Féin would do the same for a moment and allow me to make my point. I was quoting the former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, when I made the remark. That has nothing to do with Israel and I do not want to start another international incident. It has nothing to do with...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I am doing so.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: We are not just here to filibuster, talk around in circles, repeat and contradict ourselves ad nauseam.By the time we got to 3 a.m. I think some Members were inebriated-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: -----from the exuberance of their own verbosity and self-importance.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I commend the Minister for bringing this proposal on a public water forum into the revised legislation. As I said in the one contribution I made on Friday - others spoke 20 or 30 times - when the Minister-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: First it is costing too much, now it is too little. Is that it?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: That is what the Senator is saying. The Senator cannot make up his mind about anything.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: It is called listening.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: All of us must pay our way, including-----
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: -----newspaper workers and tradesmen and so forth.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: I have been here throughout.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: Sinn Féin will be in government forever after the next election.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
John Whelan: He is only a young lad.