Results 121-140 of 1,229 for speaker:Denis Landy
- Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)
Denis Landy: It is very difficult for us to sit here and listen to these so-called passionate speeches about people and poverty when the opportunity is given to the same party to govern in Northern Ireland and yet it has adopted a completely different attitude towards property tax there. These things need to be said. It is important to be honest with the people. Who is to say if the same party were in...
- Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)
Denis Landy: That is an excuse.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: Like everyone else, I wish everybody a happy new year. All the Christmas cards were very nice and I thank everyone very much. I want to raise an issue on health which I have raised on a number of occasions previously and which has been raised by many colleagues. I refer to the delay in processing medical cards in the central processing unit in Finglas. I read in the media a number of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: Will the Leader ask the Minister to receive a delegation on this matter?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: We can always start.
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group on Small Business: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We are in the second half of the debate and many of my points have already been made. Several Senators have referred to the role of enterprise boards and development companies in helping small businesses to start up and survive. These two groups should be taken under the remit of local authorities. In some cases, the people who need their...
- Seanad: Report of Advisory Group on Small Business: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: Aldi and Lidl. Up to 80% of retail trade is handled by these multiples, leaving 20% for small businesses. One might ask how this has happened in Ireland but not elsewhere in Europe. Planning regulations in mainland Europe protect artisan businesses such as butchers, bakers, fishmongers, and so on. In Ireland, we have allowed the Tescos of this world to sell everything from fish to meat to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: I, too, would like to commend the efforts of the Members of this House who spoke on "Morning Ireland" today about the future of the Seanad. Senator Whelan referred to it and I would like to add my voice. I would like to raise two matters.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: I will add one onto the other, as everyone else has done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: Can we ensure that happens with the rest of the speakers today? I refer to the reissuing of medical cards by the central processing unit. I am glad to say a number of substantial changes have occurred since we last met. The most important is that medical cards will no longer be withdrawn from people awaiting the processing of a card because of the delays in the unit. Cards will be renewed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: That is two items.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: It is two items.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: I am honing my oratorical skills listening to these people. They can say three things in one.
- Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. In athletics parlance, this is his third day of training on this issue. He had a good run out on Monday night and a better one at the committee yesterday. Today is the day when spectators look in. I have just a few points to make. There was a good debate on the issue yesterday, with a good exchange of views. No more than the Minister of...
- Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)
Denis Landy: FÃS is running a course on that for its own staff to try to get the money.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)
Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is welcome. I have no doubt he intends to move this process forward and I look forward to his deliberations. We have had a number of conversations on this issue in recent months. Town local governments should be a fundamental tier of local democracy. Reform should place town local government at the core of the system and bring local government...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)
Denis Landy: There are a couple of good hurlers coming through in Ferrybank.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)
Denis Landy: I am so enthused by this subject that I wish to speak again. A review of the Constitution, in which local government is clearly mentioned, is proposed. Will the Minister await its outcome before his final deliberations on his proposals for local government reform? Does the Minister intend to drive on ahead of that review? Will the Minister consider in any proposed legislation setting out...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)
Denis Landy: Would the Minister like to tell us?
- Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)
Denis Landy: I heard what the Minister said