Results 101-120 of 743 for speaker:Jim D'Arcy

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: They want to know whether it means we will pay the money the Greeks have not paid. As the Taoiseach has said, at the end of the day all things should be sorted out at the table.It is a couple of years since I introduced a Bill in the House regarding the provision of defibrillators. The Minister accepted the point, said he would check with the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I offer my sympathies to the families of those young people who lost their lives in Berkeley. Senator White said my son is in Berkeley. Indeed he is, and the hour spent trying to contact him was very long, but when that was done, my heart went out to the families who have suffered the unbearable loss of their beautiful young children. I know the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade will...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Seanad Éireann:” and substitute:-notes that school autonomy is an important factor in the quality of student learning; -notes that the new Junior Cycle gives flexibility and autonomy to schools, who are best placed to identify the needs of their students; -notes that within the new Junior Cycle framework, the mandatory...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Can we join forces to insist on a further debate on this in which the Minister could outline her plans and vision in greater detail for making history a discrete subject? As a member of the all-party consultative committee on 1916, I am pleased all the historical strands have got buy-in from all parties. A shared space is not a lost space.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: That is how one's historical perspective is formed. A whole generation-----

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: In "The Mother" Pádraig Pearse spoke the following lines: They shall be spoken of among their people, The generations shall remember them, And call them blessed; But I will speak their names to my own heart In the long nights; The little names that were familiar once Round my dead hearth.This encapsulates the public and private elements of the sacrifice. Anseo inniú chuala...

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: He recognises culchies as second-rate citizens but nevertheless entitled to some recognition as human beings, I suppose.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: There was the wonderful music of the street traders on Moore Street. We used to go for our duffel coats in Arnotts or somewhere like that and then go out to Moore Street to experience the wonderful colour and sound. I remember 1966 and "Insurrection" and seeing The O'Rahilly being gunned down. I do not think Cathal Brugha was shot on Moore Street but perhaps it was close by. My teacher...

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: That is not in keeping with its character.

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Aontaím leis an Seanadóir Labhrás Ó Murchú sa mhéad a dúirt sé faoin Gaeltacht. Caithfimid gach rud is féidir a dhéanamh chun an Ghaeltacht a chothú. Ba mhaith liomsa chomh maith go dtiocfadh an tAire go dtí an Teach chun ráiteas a dhéanamh faoin ábhar seo mar tá sé práinneach. I support Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: At a time when we are giving bonus points for mathematics and standards are declining, there are laws of inverse proportions. Is it fair to students of other subjects that people who are achieving a relatively lower standard in their honour are getting a 25% bonus and getting a lift up into courses in university? When one includes someone, one is excluding someone else.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I would like a debate on this.

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I will start where Senator Naughton concluded in congratulating Senator O'Keeffe on the great work she is doing for Yeats 2015. I acknowledge the work of Senator Healy Eames and others on Thoor Ballylee where Yeats wrote one of his great poems, "Meditations in Time of Civil War", with the memorable lines:More substance in our enmities Than in our love;I think we have moved on from that; I...

Seanad: Yeats 2015: Statements (9 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I do but jest. Yeats was a romantic and he imagined a new Ireland. He was a bit disillusioned in September 1913 when he wrote, "Romantic Ireland is dead and gone", but 1916 changed all that. When he wrote, "A terrible beauty is born", the vision he had for Ireland is as valid now as it was then. He saw it as a return to an imagined Celtic twilight. When I was in school, he was referred...

Seanad: Springboard Programme: Motion (27 May 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I move: That Seanad Éireann: - acknowledges that between May 2011 and December 2014, 21,042 people participated in Springboard courses and welcomes the recent announcement of a further round of places for 2015; - recognises that 98% of participants would recommend Springboard courses to a family member or a friend (source: www.springboardcourses.ie); - recognises that Springboard...

Seanad: Springboard Programme: Motion (27 May 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I thank my fellow Senators for their great and generous contributions to this debate and for their recognition of the value of Springboard and its benefits, past and future, for many people. To address Senator Craughwell's point, Oscar Wilde said that he could not help liking anyone who liked him. I thank the Senator for his generous remarks and will reciprocate by saying that he is...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: What about the railways?

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 May 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: No child should have to be detained in a detention centre. In an ideal world, all children would grow up to be law-abiding citizens who would make a contribution to society. However, unfortunately, that is not always the case. For a variety of reasons, some children are so unmanageable, and the weight of their misdemeanours so great, that there is little option but to detain them for...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: He does not know the facts.