Speech on Returning Emigrants - Billy Lawless
Speech in Seanad Éireann 26 September 2017
Good Friday alcohol ban to be lifted from all premises by 2018
Irish Times | June 13th, 2017 Good Friday alcohol ban: the Bill tabled by Independent Senator Billy Lawless would have removed the 90-year-old prohibition only for pubs and off-licences. The Government is to ensure that the lifting of the ban on the sale of alcohol on Good Friday will apply to all premises rather than…
Billy Lawless Speech from Launch of Cavan Diaspora Engagement Strategy 2017
Good morning everyone, Minister, Cathaoirleach of Cavan County Council, Councillor Fergal Curtin, Councillors and my colleagues, Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, Denis O’Donovan and Senator Diarmuid Wilson. I would like to commend Cavan County Council for its diaspora engagement strategy which is being launched today. Cavan experienced some of the worst ravages of the famine and…
Billy Lawless addresses Seanad on Irish Diaspora
Senate Speech on Trump's Executive Order
Speech on Order of Business, Tuesday, 31st January, 2017 Cathaoirleach, On Friday, January 27th 2017 President Trump signed an executive order that halted the entire refugee programme for Syria for 4 months. Citizens from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen are blocked for 3 months. The executive order also included legal permanent residents and…