Results 61-80 of 486 for long speaker:Pat Gallagher

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputy should ask a question. We have a long list.

Topical Issue Matters (19 Jun 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment; (12) Deputy John Curran - the ongoing issue of the illegal use of scrambler bikes and quad bikes; (13) Deputy Jackie Cahill - to explain the long delay in progressing the project to construct a new bridge crossing at Ballina-Killaloe, County Tipperary, considering its importance to the local economy; (14) Deputy Brian Stanley -...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Pat Gallagher: Deputy Fitzmaurice, I have been in this House a long time. I am implementing the Standing Orders.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: The Minister is in the House long enough to know a political charge. It is not a personal charge.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputy is in the House long enough to understand that on the recommital we were debating amendments Nos. 4 to 21, inclusive, and No. 28. We debated them all together. We move on to the question on amendment No. 4.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...warning the Deputies. I have to say - I want the House to take note - that this is a recommittal. Therefore, we are on Committee Stage. Deputy Catherine Murphy can come in again and speak for as long as she wishes as long as it is not repetition. I keep pleading with the Deputy. I do not have the blacks from last night or the previous night to be able to compare. I am depending on...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...was still in possession. Before the Deputy commences, I plead with him and any others who may be offering to ensure they are not repetitive. This is a recommittal so one can speak as often or as long as one wishes but I ask Members to observe the only rule that is there, which is they should not be repetitive.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: Deputy McGrath did not read his amendments out but he read the names of those who signed them. The amendments deal with penalty points. I have been in this House a long time and recommittal is something unusual. It is only the second time since I became Leas-Cheann Comhairle that we have had one, having had one on a Finance Bill at one stage. The Business Committee will have to look at...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 May 2018)

Pat Gallagher: Each Member will have one minute in which to reply. I ask all of them to observe this time limite as we have a long night ahead.

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (26 Apr 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...I wish to recognise Marie Smith in the Gallery. Marie has worked in the Members' Restaurant for the past 40 years. On my behalf and of the Members, I wish Marie a very happy, healthy, joyful and long retirement. Marie started working in the House in 1978, following in the footsteps of her mother, Peggy Redmond, who many of us fondly remember. Peggy ran nuts' corner in the restaurant,...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputy may come in as often as he likes for as long as he likes, provided what he says is somewhat different to what he has already said. If he has anything left to say after tonight, he is welcome to say it, but I will remind him if he repeats himself.

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...Stage relates to the wording of the proposed constitutional amendment which is contained in the Schedule to the Bill. The sections of the Bill are merely technical. Therefore, in accordance with long-standing practice, consideration of the sections is postponed until consideration of the Schedule has been completed. In accordance with precedence and Standing Order 151, consideration of...

Dublin Traffic: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...and villages in the Dublin region that do not have Luas, Dublin Area Rapid Transit, DART, or dedicated public transport corridors; — the recent national planning framework and national development plan which contains very long-term measures in public transport infrastructure; — that Dublin is the fifteenth most congested city in the world; — the Department of...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: The Deputy is here long enough to know he should not mention the names of people outside the House.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: Hold on. The Deputy is here a long time. He must comply with what has been the practice over the years. He can make references, but must desist from mentioning names. That is all I am saying.

Public Service Superannuation (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: Hold on, I have made it very clear. Everybody can be disappointed. The Deputy should take his seat. Other Members came into the Chamber. Deputy Sherlock is entitled to speak for as long as he wishes. If Members want to speak, they have to be in the House. They were not here, and the order of the House was that we would go onto Second Stage. We have gone on to Committee Stage and we are...

Dublin Traffic: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: That is a matter of party discipline. The Deputies decide for how long they will speak.

Topical Issue Debate: Long Stay Residential Units (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...not apply there. I believe the facilities there are as good as those in any other part of the country. There is also a question mark here over the future of other hospital services, apart from long-term services. This adds to the confusion. In short, we want clarity on this issue. The political decision of 2016 must be reversed, and we must have a plan which is acceptable to all....

Topical Issue Debate: Long Stay Residential Units (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...person. As Deputy Pearse Doherty has suggested, the decision of January 2016 has to be overturned. The only consistency in all of this is that every single reply to our parliamentary questions has indicated that the long-stay beds in those hospitals of St. Joseph's, Ramelton and Lifford do not have a future. I received that reply in early July this year, before the recess. Of course,...

Topical Issue Matters (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Gallagher: ...drug here; (7) Deputy Joan Burton - to discuss the cause of ongoing traffic congestion in the north-west area of Dublin city; (8) Deputies Pearse Doherty and Pat The Cope Gallagher - to discuss the long-term residential care facilities in St Joseph's Community Hospital, Stranorlar, as well as Ramelton and Lifford community hospitals, County Donegal; (9) Deputy James Lawless - to discuss...