Results 241-260 of 1,338 for speaker:Kathleen O'Meara

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 40: In page 14, to delete lines 37 to 46 and in page 15, to delete lines 1 and 2.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 41: In page 15, between lines 2 and 3, to insert "and in subsection (6) by the addition after 'section 7', of ', 17 or 18'.". This amendment has been suggested by the Information Commissioner and is necessary to ensure that parents of children or people with disabilities, for example, could exercise a right to correct inaccurate information held about them as well as...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I appreciate the Minister's response to the concerns raised by this amendment, if not his last remark. I look forward to further clarification. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 42: In page 15, to delete lines 3 to 26.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 43: In page 15, between lines 26 and 27 to insert "and by the insretion of the following subsection after subsection (6): '(7) This section shall apply with any necessary modifications to a review under section 14'.". I ask the Minister to note that this amendment is in line with proposals from the Information Commissioner. It is a logical amendment as section 29 should...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 44: In page 16, between lines 9 and 10 to insert the following: "(a) in subsection (4) by the insertion after "the appeal" of ", or, in a case where access or partial access is afforded, not later than 4 weeks after access to the records concerned is afforded to the person bringing the appeal".

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 45: In page 16, to delete lines 22 to 35.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I move amendment No. 46: In page 16, lines 36 to 50 and in page 17, to delete lines 1 to 6. This is an important amendment which relates to fees and the charging thereof. The section to which it relates is contentious. I ask the Minister to accept the amendment as it is an important principle of the Act.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I will vote against the legislation. It is bad law and a bad day for our democracy. I do not accept it has been caused by the report of the high level group. The group reported, but the Government brought forward the legislation without a mandate. There is no mandate for undermining the freedom of information legislation. The Bill is a dilution of important principles enshrined by both Houses...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: It will be a form of decentralisation. Question put. Tá

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: That is a total misrepresentation of what was said.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: The Senator got that from his own spin doctors.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Mar 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: Senators on the Government side have trumpeted the extent of spending on health in recent years in defence of their position. A sum of €520 million was signalled in the recent Estimates, bringing the gross health allocation for this year to €8.9 billion, but it remains the case that the health service is under-funded. As a result, the national health strategy, welcomed widely on its...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I support the call for an urgent debate on the war in Iraq. One of the most worrying aspects is whether we really know what is going on and whether we can trust the information coming back to us. In that regard the work of the journalists from RTE and The Irish Times in particular should be commended.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I support the call by Senator Brian Hayes for a debate on why so many schools' boards of management, parents and children were lied to, misled and told untruths in the days before the election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I have written evidence relating to a particular school in my constituency where that happened.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I would be very happy to read that into the record and will probably do so in the very near future. It is a scandal of huge proportions and will certainly come back to haunt the Government because people are rightly quite angry. They were used, abused, misused and lied to.

Seanad: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I can assure Senator Brady that potholes are back with a vengeance, which is clearly a reflection of under investment, particularly in non-national roads. Senator Brady spoke about the supposed level of improvement in roads, but for a country as wealthy as ours – despite what we have recently been told – that should be reflected in the state of our roads. It is not. Instead billions of...

Seanad: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I will show the Senator what it means to live on a tertiary road and find it impossible, however badly it is needed, to obtain funding from a local authority to repair it. The fact that using such roads regularly reduces the life of a car adds to the costs incurred by motorists. In that context, the legislation is unwelcome because it is yet another attempt by the Government to con people....

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2003)

Kathleen O'Meara: I apologise for being late.