Results 1-20 of 24 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Jimmy Harte

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I congratulate Senator MacSharry on Sligo Rovers' fine victory on Sunday in the FAI Cup Final. Those of us who have played in the Aviva Stadium - Senators Gilroy and Moran and I - know how it feels to win a match there. Other Members of the House were there as well. We hammered the journalists who I hope are listening in. I welcome the appointment of Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane as...

Seanad: EU Directive on Patients Rights in Cross-Border Health Care: Statements (24 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...in. My focus is on the practicalities for people living in, for example, Letterkenny, Buncrana, Moville or Donegal town. I hope they can access treatment and that, in the future, they would feel more confident going to Altnagelvin or Belfast rather than having to go to Dublin or Galway. As part of their family connections, most people in Donegal would have connections across the Border....

Seanad: An Bille um Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Cúigiú Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (23 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The day politicians are afraid of the public is the day one leaves democracy. Nobody here should fear the Irish public's view. Ultimately, they are the arbiters of this referendum. If the public feel the way we do and choose not to abolish the Seanad, the Seanad will come back as a much stronger organisation. Maybe the Taoiseach has done the Seanad a favour by putting it out there and...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...has a problem with a reasoned debate on the future of the Seanad and every Member will accept whatever the public decide, one cannot use people with disabilities as a bargaining position to make the public feel guilty. It is unacceptable to suggest that were people to decide to retain the Seanad, they should feel guilty about so doing because it will mean that people with disabilities...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...sure that TDs in the Dáil would pass legislation mindful of the fact that the Senate next door may have a different view. The public could reflect that view through the Senators because at the moment they feel that everything is being pushed through without a second opinion. As Senator O'Brien said, what the Minister is saying probably does not reflect what he is thinking about the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Pat The Cope Gallagher, MEP (25 Apr 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...operators who have contributed to overfishing of the seas and to the decline in the numbers of small, independent fishermen? Will the signal to end overfishing help to change this trend? Small fishermen feel the new discard regime is being brought in too soon. It will be introduced in January 2014 rather than 2015 and they are protesting about the cost of new equipment they will need...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...by millionaires in order to improve their health, yet they refuse to pay ¤100 to Donegal County Council. I know people in Donegal who are not well off but still pay their property tax because they feel it is their duty to do so. They want to keep Donegal clean and have its roads maintained and its beaches cleaned. There was a bit of local resentment in Donegal because people felt that...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: ...its agreement with the troika. Both parties now oppose the property tax for purely populist reasons. The leader of the Opposition in the Dáil stated in the other House and in interviews that he feels a certain amount of guilt about the scandal of the Magdalen laundries. One does not state in court that one feels a certain amount of guilt because one is either guilty or not guilty. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: .... The Donohoe family will have a person missing from the Christmas table, and the children will not have a Dad at their birthday parties or for Christmas morning. Everyone in the country must be feeling as I feel about his death. It is something that should not happen again. I agree with Senator Terry Brennan's comments. I know the role the Garda has played in protecting this State...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...personally what is involved as there is autism on both sides of my family. It is difficult for my sister and my wife and family but they are positive in their outlook on this budget because they feel they have good services. They are feeling the pinch but we can live in the Sinn Féin fairy land and the Fianna Fáil borrow land until we end up back in the same position.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...Senator Barrett and others on the technical need for this Bill to be passed. Democracy does not come cheaply, however, and we are all aware of the cost of the budget and the pain many people are feeling. As happened in the past, there was a certain constituency of people who said democracy was not working, but it was the road to dictatorship. We must continue with what we know as our...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Cards (28 Nov 2012)

Jimmy Harte: .... Through no fault of their own, they had not been reviewed for ten years. Some families are getting frustrated because some of the information being requested cannot be ascertained and they feel that they are forced to fill in the forms incorrectly. Are allowances being made in cases where information cannot be garnered from individuals? In one case a son asked his father about money...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...is a chance today to address that issue, although not in monetary terms. For future cases, Mr. Younis has done the State some service. I have never met the gentleman but I am sure he has mixed feelings about the country he has worked in. The message from the Seanad is that there is 100% support from the Government and the Opposition. The case has been highlighted and we hope it will...

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Statements (20 Nov 2012)

Jimmy Harte: .... Senator Mary Ann O'Brien spoke about the sickness benefit scheme that the Minister for Social Protection is considering introducing and I have asked business people in my own area how they feel about it. The response was - and this is something I know to be true after 25 years in business - that in private business there are very few people who take long sickness breaks. It is not...

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...companies in the world based in Australia. Its policy was that when one rang the top guy in the company, one was put directly through and if he did not answer his telephone, he rang one back. The feeling at TNT was that if someone had to ring the head of the company, the complaint was serious and it was dealt with at that level. That feeling permeated the company. We have all...

Seanad: Charities Act 2009: Motion (19 Sep 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...event while also delivering funding to various charitable organisations. In an ideal world, as I have said, none of us would need to help charities, but we do. When people donate to charities they feel it is a more direct way of helping than, for example, paying more tax in the community and that tax being directed to various charities. People involved in charities know how difficult...

Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (12 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...start-up businesses do not have that knowledge but they do not generally go to enterprise boards. They may wish to set up a clothes shop, a hairdresser or supply goods or services and they do not feel the need to go to the enterprise board. In many cases people start off with a great idea and premises and go straight into business because the knowledge has been passed down through the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...Platini, president of UEFA, will come to Dublin to present the award. The Irish fans expressed a form of Irishness Europe does not understand. European countries perhaps do not understand how we feel about ourselves. When Italy played Spain, it had difficulty getting fans to go to the matches whereas if Ireland had got to the final, 3 million people would have been looking for tickets....

Seanad: Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Jun 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...I call on the banks to streamline their application systems and to have people doing less paper work and to spend more time meeting small business owners on their premises. They would get a better feel for the business rather than examining a spreadsheet, which might tell them a good deal but it will not tell them about the staff in the business, how long the business has been in the area...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Jimmy Harte: ...those shedding crocodile tears about job losses are the same people who were saying the bank should have been left to flounder some time ago. They cannot have it both ways. They cannot say they feel sorry for the bank staff on the one hand while, on the other, make statements that the bank should been allowed to go to the wall. Senator Coghlan referred to the Lonely Planet guide. I am...