Results 121-124 of 124 for 5 million speaker:Finian McGrath

Disability Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (19 May 2005)

Finian McGrath: I support amendment No. 5, which proposes to deleted the word "Disability" on page 5, line 30, and substitute it with the words "Rights of Persons with Disabilities". We are referring to the core issues in the legislation when we speak of the rights of people with disabilities. It is important to reflect that the disability movement and in particular people with disabilities have been talking...

Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2005)

Finian McGrath: ...dealing and market manipulation. I strongly welcome section 29, which outlines penalties on conviction on indictment of certain market abuse offences. It provides for a maximum fine of €10 million and-or a maximum ten year imprisonment on conviction on indictment. Summary offences will be dealt with in the transposing regulations. Section 31, which is positive and constructive, gives...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Feb 2005)

Finian McGrath: ...the ground do not receive the service. This is a constant complaint which I hear from parents and from those who work with people with intellectual disabilities. An organisation may be allocated €5 million but the same organisation may have 300 people on a waiting list. It is a question of the management of services. Another factor to be considered is that people with disabilities and...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Feb 2005)

Finian McGrath: ...of the gardaí. There is much respect for gardaí on the beat and there is much respect on the north side of Dublin for members of the drug squad, for example. Over the past couple of years, millions of euro worth of drugs was confiscated in the Coolock and Dublin North-Central areas of my constituency. I commend the gardaí involved in these activities because they also played a major...