Results 21-40 of 935 for speaker:Mary Moran

Seanad: Arts Plan: Statements (21 Sep 2011)

Mary Moran: Such an initiative combined children with various intelligence quotients and family backgrounds. Everybody was brought together to perform on a national stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Mary Moran: I will make two points. On Friday I attended a seminar on suicide awareness organised in Leinster House. I pay tribute to the people who organised this comprehensive and very well run event intended to raise awareness of suicide and heighten our ability to detect it. The course is very well worth taking. I call on the Minister for Health to come to the House for a debate on the continuing...

Seanad: Company Closures: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Mary Moran: I offer my sympathy to the employees of TalkTalk and all the families and workers that have experienced the terrible heartbreak of redundancy. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, will be familiar with the devastating blow to my own area of Dundalk with the announcement that 100 jobs are to be lost in the Vodafone call centre in the town. From being one of the most industrialised towns in...

Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: I congratulate the Independent Group for bringing this extremely important motion forward. The Labour Party fully supports it. I also wish to thank those in the public arena who yesterday gave an excellent presentation in the AV room. As a parent of teenage children and an educator for over 20 years, several things were highlighted of which I was not aware. I must have been very naive to...

Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: I acknowledge how well this issue has been highlighted and the telephone calls to Senators' offices to remind them. I congratulate all concerned on their excellent work. This motion sets out the context of human trafficking for sexual purposes, implying it is one of the most violent and horrific crimes against humanity. The trafficking of women and young girls for the purpose of sexual...

Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, to the Seanad to address this Adjournment matter. I also welcome and pay tribute to Ms Karen Dubsky and members of Coastwatch who supplied me with background to this issue. Regarding the recent opening of shellfish harvesting in Dundalk Bay, a Natura 2000 site, can the Minister of State provide detail on any quality issues encountered in...

Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. Will the Minister of State ask the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to draft a new policy of inshore shellfish harvesting? The Dutch and Spanish have led the way in this area and this should be prioritised for protected sites such as that in Dundalk Bay. Will the Minister consider inviting representatives of the Dutch and Spanish Governments...

Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: Will the Minister give a clear public view of the statistics, etc.?

Seanad: Health Services: Statements, Questions and Answers (27 Oct 2011)

Mary Moran: Last week there were 58.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: I, too, congratulate Michael D Higgins, Sabina and his family. I know that as President he will do us proud. I would also like to take the opportunity to welcome Senator Norris and I look forward to more lively debates with him. I ask the Leader to call on the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to come into this Chamber to address the issue of septic tanks. There...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: Figures have been bandied about of costs of up to €12,000-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: Figures have been bandied about of up to €12,000 to have work carried out on septic tanks.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: I would like to remind the Senators on the other side of the House that it was Fianna Fáil which introduced this in 2009.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: It was in the last programme for Government. Elderly people were being told that money was being taken out of their social welfare payments.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: I am asking the Leader to call on the Minister to come in here and address the issue of scaremongering.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: Several press releases and letters to newspapers have raised these issues and I sincerely ask that the Minister come into the House, address these issues and put them to bed once and for all.

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I understand that the debate is on junior cycle reform, but I would like to make reference to Senator Mac Conghail's speech. As a music teacher for over 20 years, I wish he could have been in the classroom at times when I was in utter despair. I welcome his words and I agree wholeheartedly with him as a teacher in a socially disadvantaged school....

Seanad: Reform of Junior Certificate: Statements (8 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: Absolutely. One came out and said one got X amount of honours and that was it. Nowadays, every year we hear "I got nine As" or "I got ten As". There is not a mention of the C or the B that might have been very well earned. There is too much pressure to get A grades. An A grade now seems to be the equivalent of an honour. Nowadays the pictures on the school "walls of fame" are of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: I reiterate the point my fellow Louth Senators raised about renaming the Boyne cable bridge in Drogheda after Mary McAleese. It is a fantastic idea. Like the peace bridge in Drogheda, it would go further to highlight how far we have come in the past few years. On a separate issue, I congratulate the Irish football team on their wonderful success against Estonia last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Mary Moran: By the sound of it, some Senators are warming up for the match tonight. I wish the team good luck tonight and compliment its fans on how proudly they behave at all the matches. I wish them every success tonight and in the European Championship finals, the first ones we will have reached in ten years.