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Seanad: Report on Grocery Goods Sector: Motion (20 Nov 2013)

Feargal Quinn: In my first year in this House, on St. Valentine's day I brought in a special kind of apple for each of the ladies in the Seanad and I was very strictly ticked off for gender discrimination. I think it was called a Love apple. I welcome the Minister of State. I am very honoured that both Senator Mary White and Senator Mary Ann O'Brien had nice things to say about me. Like the Minister of...

Seanad: Food Wastage: Motion (15 Feb 2012)

Feargal Quinn: ...approximately 30% of food bought; - the average person throws out almost 300 kg of 'black bin rubbish' every year, and about one third of this waste is food waste. This is the equivalent of 3,750 apples; - this waste costs every household in Ireland about €1,000 per year; - restaurants dispose of about €125 million worth of food every year; - wastage is a huge financial cost to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Feargal Quinn: ...of sense. We want to create jobs, establish start-up companies and help people who have a concept and want to start a business. Such persons should not be bound by the regulations and red tape appling to big businesses. These regulations are a huge deterrent to someone who wants to start a business, employ people and get off the ground. Today the Secretary of State for Business,...

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Feargal Quinn: ...countries and that many companies produce profitable innovations with little or no research in-house. For example, while most of the research behind the iPod and iPhone was done by other firms, Apple reaped the huge profits from its skill in design, systems integration and marketing. The economic benefit of innovation comes to those economies that develop the new idea, rather than those...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (6 Jul 2010)

Feargal Quinn: ...and the spaces below them are filled by newer recruits. Taking up work is still the best route out of poverty. During the week there was a row when Bill Cullen of It's a Long Way from Penny Apples fame said it was better for somebody to work for no pay than not to work because he or she could prove himself or herself and move up the ladder, something with which I agree entirely, even...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Sep 2009)

Feargal Quinn: ...paid jobs but they were the first step on the ladder. In later years, we were unable to do that. I am not suggesting they were great jobs. Mr. Bill Cullen's book, It's a Long Way from Penny Apples, a book everybody should read, tells how when he started work in a garage his job was cleaning windscreens and so on and how when times were tough and people were being let go he was kept on...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2009)

Feargal Quinn: ...slices from either end of every loaf of bread they use because consumers do not want the crusts. This resulted in 2.6 billion slices of bread being thrown away last year in Britain. Last year, 27 apples per head of population were thrown away because they were discoloured or otherwise tarnished. The figures for this State are undoubtedly proportionate. We can take action both as...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)

Feargal Quinn: ...that supermarkets do away with best-before and display-until labels? Up to 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night when every year in the UK up to 6 million tonnes of potatoes, 4 million apples and 1 million loaves and slices of ham are thrown out. This is because people misunderstand the difference between use-by, best-before and display-until labels. These are used by...

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2008: Second and Subsequent Stages (26 Jun 2008)

Feargal Quinn: .... If I may, I would like to quote from the article, "Island of last resort", by Irish journalist, Maggie O'Kane. It states: The most striking thing about the Hassela reform centre, apart from the apple blossom, the thick white candles burning on the breakfast tables and the smell of old wood from the ancient eaves of the dining room, is the silence. Sixty teenagers with criminal...

Seanad: Lisbon National Reform Programme: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Feargal Quinn: ...came ninth in the competitiveness index and it is not even a EU member state. Examining the Government's reform programme that is the subject of this debate, I see a great deal of motherhood and apple pie, an all-American phrase which means one makes nice statements with which no one can disagree. Much of this document smacks of a desire to fill in the boxes for Brussels, rather than a...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal Reports: Motion. (15 Jun 2005)

Feargal Quinn: ...80 years, with very few exceptions. When introducing good management practice, we must ensure that it will not hamper gardaí from doing the job they are required to do. We know about the few bad apples but we must ensure that what happened in Donegal and elsewhere will not encourage us to take steps that will hamper gardaí from doing the job they do so effectively, and for which we have...

Seanad: Report of National Task Force on Obesity: Statements. (24 May 2005)

Feargal Quinn: ...in parents' hands, it is in everyone's hands. I love Hallowe'en and my wife and I invariably stay at home at Hallowe'en, waiting for the children to call. In recent years we have found that our apples and nuts are not welcomed by the children. Children do not call looking for apples and nuts anymore. We have been very naughty as a result and now make sure that there are plenty of sweets...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Jun 2004)

Feargal Quinn: ...from begging since then. However, at a conference in Cork last weekend, it was pointed out that people did not realise that this means our children and grandchildren are no longer able to collect apples, nuts and sweets at Hallowe'en.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Second Stage. (2 Mar 2004)

Feargal Quinn: ...and fairly, the damage is limited. If it is not nipped in the bud, it will go on creating damage in the force for a long time and will have quite an impact over a wider area. If one or two bad apples find they can get away with unacceptable behaviour, it has a negative effect on the rest of the force and it grows in seriousness as time goes on. Not least of the serious implications is that...