Results 3,421-3,440 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: Members will just deal with the past 12 years.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: That is pathetic.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: Look how much more expensive everything is now.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: They are not eligible anyway.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: We are happy to swap. 12 o'clock
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: I asked the Minister for Finance if he agreed with it.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: He did not answer.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: She should not use it talking about me.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: Those are all there already.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister can easily prevent this without penalising everybody.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: Let it be dependent on age instead.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: In six months.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: They could work for longer.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: When it will be guillotined again.
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: It is not agreed. We learned this afternoon that there will be a brief Second Stage-type debate, lasting 65 minutes, on the motion to instruct the committee. During that time, we will be expected to discuss all the pension provisions contained in the Social Welfare Bill 2009. We have had 12 years of Fianna Fáil Government-----
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: -----but no progress has been made with State pensions policy over that period.
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: The most we got was the Green Paper on Pensions. The Government is proposing to make significant changes tonight. I take the Taoiseach's point that there is a need for urgency because some companies are in difficulty at the moment. However, I remind him that the need for urgency did not develop over the last 48 hours. We need more time if we are to have a proper opportunity to discuss...
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: I am sure Deputies on all sides of the House would like to contribute to the debate on these significant changes, some of which do not go far enough. The short amount of time that is being provided will not give Members an opportunity to outline their concerns about these proposals. It is unacceptable that the Government intends to have all of this rushed through by midnight tonight. We...
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: I want to make a point in objection to this proposal. The Taoiseach has referred to the urgency of this matter, but the Minister for Finance still has to make regulations under some amendments, particularly the one dealing with the new issues that are being proposed today. Therefore, it is not as if this is something that will be enacted into law once it is completed in the Seanad....
- Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)
Olwyn Enright: Is that all the Taoiseach is worried about?