Results 1-10 of 10 for lottery speaker:Peter Mathews

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: ...such authority and power, and with such a majority, try to fool us. Where is the Taoiseach? Is it at Davos? I stated we are lucky to be debating this Bill because the choice of business is a lottery. The Bill was drawn out like a ticket. It is a ticket that is worthy and that can save us. This type of constitutional provision saves Germany, Lithuania and all the other countries I...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)

Peter Mathews: ...this Private Members' Bill was tabled for its First Reading on 18 February 2014 and under the rules, if the Government does not object, it can proceed to Second Stage but only if comes out of the lottery drum. I thank providence that the Bill is having its Second Reading. I am nothing more than the courier of what is an excellent set of principles and an excellent safeguard in the...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)

Peter Mathews: The point of order is that a Bill that was selected by lottery for a two-hour debate tomorrow has now been shunted into the new year, to be debated on 23 January 2016. That will provide 166 Members with 43 seconds each to determine their responsibilities as parliamentary representatives of the whole people of Ireland.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Peter Mathews: This Bill was drawn in the legislative schedule lottery and was scheduled for debate on Friday, 5 December. It has been pushed out of it by the Government’s requirement under the Whip system to deal with water services legislation. It is an irony that this Bill which could become the cornerstone of our democracy is being pushed out under the Whip system.

Seanad Reform Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: ...behaving like it was having its last gasps and could only survive by imposing Whips to steamroll and kill off any sparks of originality, thinking or conscience. Wake up is all I can say. There is a Private Members’ Bill in the lottery drum waiting for providence to draw it out. I hope every one of the 166 Members of this House will subscribe to this Bill, because one of the...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: ...owners to foreign vulture capitalists have been of the magnitude of two thirds of the entire economy. We spent weeks in this House debating the sale of State assets such as the ESB, the national lottery and Coillte. These asset sales collectively amount to a small fraction of the State-owned bank assets the Government has sold at enormous discounts and losses to the taxpayer who owns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Peter Mathews: There is a lottery element to how the case is determined.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Peter Mathews: With respect, a Cheann Comhairle, that is entering a lottery. Imagine if an aeroplane with a nuclear bomb was circulating Dublin and you said we should submit it as a Topical Issue.

Written Answers — Arts Council Funding: Arts Council Funding (19 Jun 2012)

Peter Mathews: Question 403: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a breakdown between National Lottery funding and State funding to the Arts Council for the years 2007 to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29070/12]

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Peter Mathews: ...and presented corner shops in villages and towns in the shape and colour of a cigarette box such as a Benson & Hedges corner shop. Little boys aged ten distributed cigarettes and promotional lottery-type tickets and if people bought a pack or part of a pack, they would be entered in a draw for a fridge or a television. It was disappointing to find out at that time that a former chairman...