Results 281-300 of 3,553 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch in 'Dáil debates'
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Minister has made two illegal appointments. Who sanctioned those appointments?
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The situation created by Ministers will affect legislation due to come before the House.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Is the Minister going to put in place a situation whereby the monitoring of appointmentsââ
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Before the Minister responds, I wish to raise the issue of redress.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Some 100 cases have been suspendedââ
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Ministerââ
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: ââis sitting over there, smiling.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: One hundred tenants do not know whether they will have a house next weekââ
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: ââand the Minister is smiling.
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for permitting to raise this issue on the Adjournment. I ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to explain the circumstances in which he appointed to the Private Residential Tenancies Board two members of local authorities who are ineligible to serve on the board. As a result of these appointments, more than 100 decisions taken by the...
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Minister is a practised hand at reading scripts.
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Minister broke the law. He should not refer to debates in the Seanad.
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The question is who brought this matter to the Minister's attention.
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Once again, the Minister is talking about this side of the House as if he were sitting here. Who brought this matter to his attention?
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Will the Minister answer to the House as to who brought this matter to his attention?
- Appointments to State Boards. (9 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: The Minister failed to answer that question in this House.
- Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: What we are witnessing here is the type of economics written on the back of a cigarette box. We saw it earlier with the calculations of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, on the reintroduction of third level fees. We see it here again this evening with calculations made on a crisis-driven basis rather than with a strategic approach, particularly one to get the...
- Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: I have a final point. The community and voluntary sectors, which cannot claim back VAT, buy photocopying machines and equipment. They will find their costs have increased as a result of this measure. There was no examination of the VAT system; it was slapped on. This is the back of a cigarette box economics and hence the cost of living has increased for community groups and those on the...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Listening to Deputy Sherlock speak and recalling how the Government tried to wrap the green flag around itself one is reminded that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." This Government has behaved like a scoundrel. Over the past couple of days we have had an example of what happens when the entire future of a country is invested in a pyramid scheme. The Government invested...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Ciarán Lynch: Outrageous.