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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Jun 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: ...how minor or how long ago. This Bill has the potential to remove the ball and chain a criminal record can represent to people. Even when everyone else has moved on, the person still feels a cloud hangs over him. This is the case even where the cloud relates to a minor misdemeanour that occurred a generation ago. There is a sense, and I am sure Members have encountered this when dealing...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McDowell: Apart from the scandalous cost involved in it, of over €5 million, I have to say that the whole project has been clouded in mystery and almost the subject of deception. The affected members of staff of the Oireachtas, the Library staff, were told that the Members were in favour of this project. As Members in this House will know, I wrote out to all the Members of both Houses of the...

Industrial Development Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: ...Was it because we are the Irish? Are we special, a race apart, a chosen people? I do not think so. It should have been common sense to see what was coming. We have two options. We can live in cloud cuckoo land, or we can take serious steps to recover lost ground. We can become competitive again, restore confidence in manufacturing and in those providing services and encourage...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

James Lawless: ...FDI centres. This helped to attract to our shores multinationals and investment in technology, pharma, electronics and many other sectors. No more than now, the DIAS was established at a time when dark clouds were gathered around the world. We were on the brink of the Second World War. Now, we face the Covid pandemic. The parallel is that a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach took the...

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: ...remaining 250,000 on the live register or those emigrating? This is what we really must contend with. The Taoiseach claims Ireland is the best small country in which to do business. Who are we competing with – the Cayman Islands, Jersey, the Isle of Man? Is it about incentivising top earners and multimillionaires with low taxes, which is not new anyway? A policy based on austerity,...

Seanad: Labour Services (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Nov 2009)

Ivor Callely: ...agency's programmes and supports for individuals remaining in or returning to the labour market. The public perception of the work done by the very committed individuals who work in FÁS has been clouded somewhat due to recent media coverage of certain isolated matters. I am sure we all accept that such media attention can be exaggerated and may not give a clear and informed picture. It...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Michael Collins: ...provide security of domestic energy supply by opening up drilling for new oil and gas supplies off our coast. The Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme and other measures will, we hope, help businesses competing internationally and suffering the broader effects of skyrocketing energy costs. However, they will do absolutely nothing to tackle the underlying causes of this crisis. The new...

Seanad: Gas Regulation Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Oct 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...before he became a Member of the House, and I regret he is not present in the Chamber. He is a particularly intelligent Member of the House for whom I have a lot of regard, but whoever wrote his script is living in cloud cuckoo land. He ranted on about neoliberalism and the fact this is being sold only for reasons of ideological motivation, but I am afraid that is not the case. I wish...

European Council: Statements. (27 Jun 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the name change of Windscale to Sellafield. Objectionable terms have been changed to try pull the wool over people's eyes. Some of the more obvious symbols of statehood have been removed or clouded over but let us make no mistake, the so-called reform treaty is the EU constitution in all but name. As the Taoiseach stated earlier, the changes do not "undermine the balance and...

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...into the 21st century and, in so doing, make it fit for the increasingly digitised world. The vast majority of the population daily streams or downloads goods or services from the Internet or the cloud. This practice is a clear divergence from the way we lived our lives just a decade ago, or even more recently. Through the past two years of the pandemic, we had no better example of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Enterprise Ireland (23 Jul 2013)

...of jobs here in Ireland. Enterprise Ireland works in partnership with our clients providing a cohesive set of supports, both financial and non-financial, to help them start, grow, innovate and compete on global markets, thus driving economic growth and employment creation. Before I go into the detail of Enterprise Ireland’s activities in 2012 and this year to date, as members will...

Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Michael Lowry: ...of Aer Lingus lie not with its executives but with its unique staff. These staff members, who are scattered across Tipperary and the rest of the country, are currently living their lives under a black cloud of uncertainty. The Government is keeping them in their jobs, for which they are grateful, but their futures are vulnerable and uncertain. This vulnerability will have a ripple...

Seanad: FÁS: Statements (2 Dec 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: .... Let us not put everybody in the one category. Let us differentiate between the board and management of FÁS and community employment schemes and the good work done by FÁS workers. Events have clouded the judgment of ordinary people. The ordinary people working in FÁS, such as lecturers, clerical officers and apprentices have been maligned by inference by this sorry debacle. As...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2006) See 1 other result from this debate

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...bhfuil treoracha an chliant comhlíonta ag an dlíodóir nó an abhcóide. My office is receiving an increasing number of complaints and requests for assistance regarding improper, unethical or incompetent conduct by members of the legal profession. This year alone I have received six major complaints from people who have run out of options in seeking justice and this is only the tip of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

...of two new EU data protection instruments were published in May 2016. The first was a regulation containing general data protection rules while the second was a directive containing rules applicable to competent bodies involved in the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties. The regulation enters into force on 25...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)

...being experienced. Some of my constituents are angry that we face economic turmoil, some are confused as to how this will improve our situation and some are disillusioned with the issue being clouded in confusion and politicians turning it into a political football. Many of my constituents recall the 1980s, a time when interest rates were in the region of 20%, emigration was rampant and...

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Enda Kenny: ...restoring Gallic pride, and the French contingent with it, by addressing the meeting in his mother tongue, a language which once dominated EU proceedings. The summit took place under something of a cloud. There is the ongoing rise of India and China, excess deficits in various parts of the Union, high unemployment, low growth — which is improving — and a pensions bill and requirement...

Disposal of Shares in Aer Lingus Group plc: Motion. (6 Jul 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ...private ownership is the panacea for a successful airline. There are no guarantees but we believe that Aer Lingus's best chance to survive and prosper lies in private ownership. It is already competing with airlines that have access to private capital and that can respond to rapidly changing market conditions without reference to a lethargic, ponderous and cautious political system. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

...be maintained as we build towards 2024. I have just painted a positive picture of recent developments in Dublin Bus. However, this positivity is very much framed against the backdrop of some gathering storm clouds that have the potential to throw us off course. Congestion poses a massive challenge to all public transport operators and it would be wrong to ignore that reality. Dublin...

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (15 Nov 2005)

Shane Ross: ...Ferns Report made. There are no words to suitably express condemnation for the sort of activities which took place in the diocese of Ferns and elsewhere. I do not believe that politicians should compete in the sort of condemnations which come easily to everyone's lips and which are heartfelt by all in both Houses. I am not sure what anyone can add to the words said initially in response to...