Results 1-3 of 3 for waste management speaker:Mary Ann O'Brien

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: I second what Senator James Heffernan said about the proposed waste management gasification, which is a new word for me, instead of incineration. It makes one feel better to use "gasification" instead of "incineration". He referred to the old Gortadroma landfill site to which tyres from all over the world will be imported which we will incinerate. Goodness knows, the environment will once...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...children’s hospital and the fact that he has asked the national children’s hospital board to consider applying for planning permission for it. It is very much welcomed by us all. After 20 years of wasted time, nobody knows better than the Minister that many of those who were children at the start of this project are now adults, and we still have no hospital. The Minister...

Seanad: Life-Limiting Health Conditions in Children: Motion (26 Sep 2012)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...possible. These children get a chest infection at a drop of a hat. An organisation such as the Brothers of Charity, for example, is just not geared for such children. The little boy in Roscommon managed to attend his Brothers of Charity service on three days out of most of last year, which is not much good. I want to ring-fence the existing budget to underpin a national home nursing...