SEANAD ÉIREANN Schedule of Business Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th October, 2013 Tuesday 14:30 – Order of Business 15:45 – Private Members Business That Seanad Éireann: – Notes with concern that […]
10. 10. 2013
This Week In The Seanad
10. 10. 2013
Time To Address Negativity Head On
This week I attended a business breakfast meeting where the main speaker was Peter Sutherland, the former Attorney General. During his speech he warned of the impact that media negativity […]
10. 10. 2013
Sugar Tax Needs To Offset Price of Healthy Foods
Senator Noone has today outlined how any potential sugar tax should be used in order to reclassify the VAT bracket for healthier foods and allow them avail of a lower […]
7. 10. 2013
Meaningful Seanad Reform Must Ensue – Noone
Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone spoke today about the Seanad referendum result, saying that “the result is a clear endorsement for real, meaningful reform and has started the most meaningful […]
3. 10. 2013
This Week In The Seanad – 3rd October
We passed a motion regarding the Fourth Programme of Law Reform prepared by the Law Reform Commission We debated the Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 at Committee Stage We debated the […]
3. 10. 2013
Statement On Upward-Only Rent Reviews
Upward-only rent reviews are damaging for businesses, for our towns and cities, they erode confidence and they cause businesses to close unnecessarily. We know this to be true and, as […]
3. 10. 2013
Statement of Appreciation For Seamus Heaney
I would like take this opportunity to pay tribute to the late Seamus Heaney – a worthy Nobel Laureate and undisputedly, the most globally renowned of modern Irish poets. Comparisons […]
3. 10. 2013
Alcohol Has Claimed 1,700 Lives in Last 19 Months
I was shocked to discover this week that more than 1,700 Irish people have died from alcohol-related illnesses since February 2012. This is the month when the current recommendations to […]