Results 681-700 of 1,842 for speaker:Marie Moloney
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: Members of the committee should be allowed to speak first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: The unions should not be sitting around waiting for us to make a proposal. The Minister wants to engage with the unions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: It certainly was not last week when the Minister visited schools in Kerry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: As have Members on the Government side.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: Sorry, I have just been interrupted. Anyway, I am asking for the Minister to come here and for a long debate in the House. It is a long time since we had a debate on medical cards. I call on the Minister for Health to come to the House. Like Senator Mary Ann O'Brien said, we need an action plan to address discretionary medical cards. We are always being told that it is not linked to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister and his aides for attending. Many of my concerns have been raised, so I will await the replies. Most of those present are former teachers and I will bow to their knowledge and experience, but I am a parent and I know what children go through when facing exams. My son, who did 11 years in medical school between college and general practitioner, GP, training college,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I was rising to speak about medical cards also. Since I got elected to the Seanad the most controversial issue - it keeps coming up time and again - is medical cards. While I appreciate that almost half the population of Ireland have medical cards there are still many people who have had their discretionary cards removed and I, for one, do not agree with that. I read in the newspaper the...
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. She never shirks her responsibilities and always comes to the Seanad to answer questions. Senator MacSharry expressed surprise that a group of Government Senators have tabled this motion. Being a member of a Government party does not mean one will not highlight the difficulties faced by people with disabilities and inadequacies in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I am sorry we have to leave but there is a division in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I wish to raise one issue. I have a number of carers who have a child with a disability. One in particular has a child with leukaemia but the child is attending school. The carer decided to go back to college to retrain while the child was at school, but because her hours exceed 15, she loses the carer's allowance. As the child is in school and does not need to be cared for, she has time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: Does Ms Duffy have any figures on that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: It might make a significant difference if the spouse were working or received a lump sum from a job at which he or she had worked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: We must also consider the potential difficulties for those people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I have been pushing to ensure parents are not left in that situation, even in terms of their employment. I will check up on it. We will keep in touch on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: That is a fair point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: One would know what income, savings and so on a person has and would not have to run around getting all this information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)
Marie Moloney: I also welcome the two groups to our meeting. I have not dealt with WALK before but I have read its presentation which I found to be very impressive. It would be great if its programmes could be rolled out nationwide in the future. I have worked with Mr. Dunne from the Carers Association on various issues. On the cut to the respite care grant, Mr. Dunne knows that I moved very quickly to...
- Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)
Marie Moloney: I wish to add my voice in welcoming this Bill. The children in the Gallery are witnessing history in the making, as this legislation will benefit them and their peers because children will no longer be in cars where people are smoking. At earlier Stages I mentioned that when my son was about four, my father-in-law was smoking in the car and I did not have the courage to tell him to stop but...
- Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)
Marie Moloney: I very much welcome the Bill and I congratulate the Senators on introducing it. In the long term it will be very positive for the country just as the smoking ban was. When the ban on smoking in pubs and public places was introduced, people actually stopped smoking in houses. Any smoker who came into my house went outside the door to smoke and I was delighted with that. I hope the Bill...
- Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)
Marie Moloney: I know, but we can think of people who did not get locked up and we believe that it was wrong. However, I am just saying that-----