Results 24,061-24,080 of 26,350 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik should deal with home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Rightly so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik does not want to address home-care packages.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: The buck stops with him. One cannot get away from that. The one solution is to reverse the cut. I do not think any of us, or any Member on the Government side, wants to see cuts that affect carers or people who are badly incapacitated, such as the people yesterday who made a great effort to come to protest outside Leinster House. The cut is being made for the sake of ¤8 million. If the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----or one of his Ministers of State ? I believe he is talking to both of them at the moment, which is good ? would come to the House today to tell us what is Government policy on home-care hours. Page 38 of the programme for Government states that not only would the Government retain existing home-care packages but it would increase them. The programme for Government was signed up to by...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch the people at the higher end of the scale in the health service, for whom he advocated long enough in his private capacity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch them but he will cut people who earn less than ¤10 an hour.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps when Senator Bacik gets to her feet she will tell me if it is Labour Party policy to cut home-care hours and whether she, as the leader of the Labour Party group-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----in the Seanad has asked the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to reverse the cuts to home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: A total of 950,000 hours have been cut this year alone. It is an absolute disgrace.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik should deal with home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Rightly so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik does not want to address home-care packages.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: The Fine Gael Party voted for the bank guarantee.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: They must take responsibility for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Take responsibility for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: We will. Why will the Leader not take responsibility for the cuts?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Take responsibility for the cut.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Why is the Government blaming the HSE for it when the Minister is-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely no problem, as we continually do.