Results 48,201-48,220 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing to allow a Member of the House to raise a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing to allow me to make a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: As a Member of the House, am I allowed to make a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: If I may explain very quickly-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is relevant to what the Chair referenced. He said that Fianna Fáil had 19 seats, Sinn Féin 13 seats and the Technical Group 16 seats. With the greatest respect, the Ceann Comhairle also said that the time was allocated in proportion to the number of seats. Four speaking slots were allocated to Fianna Fáil, three to Sinn Féin and two to the Technical Group.
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: My question on a point of order is how is the allocation-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I accept that.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Fifty minutes to debate the entire package of Dáil reform is preposterous.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Stagg is sharp this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I had a young man working for me for free recently. He has a degree and a master's degree and he has now gone to full-time paid employment. Before him, I had another young man working for me who had a degree and two master's degrees. He worked for me free to get experience, and he has now moved on.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: These people do not need an incentive to work. If what the Taoiseach is saying is that there are other people out there who, based on getting the normal social welfare rate, are refusing to either take up jobs or take up important training, then I refer him to the job activation measures the Minister, Deputy Burton, is bringing in. I would not want someone with a degree and two master's...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: -----for no other reason than that they are under 26, just as I would if the Government had targeted women, people of colour or people of a particular religion. This is an issue of human rights. The Government is not applying it to 30 year olds, 40 year olds or 50 year olds.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: My question is this. We have time, based on the new budgetary process, to step back, think, meet and discuss. I ask the Taoiseach to think about this in terms of human rights. I ask him to be aware that job activation measures have already been introduced whereby, if a person is sitting at home-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: -----living on the dole and refuses to take a job, that person gets nothing. I would support that. My question to the Taoiseach is this. In the time Dáil Éireann has to tease out all of this in the coming months, will the Taoiseach please take this away and reflect that this is an issue of human rights and it is discriminatory?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: No one is arguing with that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: With respect, there is only one group of people who are insulting the motivation of young people, and this is the group of people who are stating that their social protection must be cut to get them to work, because this is the logic being used. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, stated yesterday that he was pleased to announce that there was to be no reduction in the basic social welfare rates...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Aideen Carberry, the national chairperson of Labour Youth, stated that it was fundamentally unfair and that it was the opinion of Labour Youth that the measure would cause people to emigrate. She stated they had watched with a combination of sadness and concern and that the problem with the unemployment crisis in the country was not training but the fact that there are not enough jobs. ...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Does the Taoiseach accept that this cut discriminates based on age? Does he accept that this is not how we should do business in this country? Does he accept that these people are equal citizens in our country? Will he ask the Minister, Deputy Burton, to remove this from the social welfare Bill before it comes before the House?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify comments relating to school transport and Bus Éireann that Bus Éireann makes a profit but it is not a profit in a commercial sense; if he will reveal these non-commercial profits in tabular form annually from 2005 to date in 2013. [43747/13]