Results 381-400 of 1,311 for speaker:Sheila Terry

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Sheila Terry: Are they people with work permits or asylum seekers?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I condemn the remarks made by Deputy Noel Davern towards the end of last week about the little women in our Irish Parliament.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: It is an equality issue. It is very important in terms of the women of this House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: That is what it is.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: A member of one of the Government parties in these Houses made a comment that women were not fit to go to cities in Europe because it is not appropriate for them.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I respect the Cathaoirleach's guidance on the issue, but I am very unhappy——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: ——with comments made, such as that about the women of the two Houses.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: Deputy Davern went much further——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I will. There is a great need to replace the many social workers in the Eastern Health Board area who have either retired or left the profession through natural wastage. The lack of social workers is putting children at risk. When somebody makes a complaint that a child is at risk in its home, that child cannot be assessed for months and must continue to live in a dangerous environment....

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the House. We are certainly seeing a great deal of him here.

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I welcome the Bill which makes a series of textual amendments to the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000 to allow for the implementation of a number of EU directives. It is a simple Bill which must be welcomed although it could have gone further and we should have availed of the opportunity to do so. I thank the officials who, from a drafting point of view, are to be...

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: They were different times.

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004: Second Stage. (4 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: That could lead to abuse.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: Will the Leader arrange for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to come to this House, as requested on a number of occasions in the past two weeks, to present his proposals for the reform and restructuring of both the prison service and the prisons? In light of the decision made by the Government yesterday to replace Mountjoy Prison with a new prison somewhere in Dublin, it is...

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: The Minister of State is welcome to the House to listen to the debate on the national stadium. While one would have to welcome the fact that at last a decision has been made, and that it is the right one, we have to point out that it has taken five years of wasted time to make it. I heard one of the Senators on the opposite side say that five years to make a decision is not that bad. It is a...

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: That is true.

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: That is the most disgraceful aspect of the whole issue of a national stadium. Five years later we now have a proposal, which I hope will go ahead, but in the meantime our soccer and rugby teams will have to play their matches abroad. Irish supporters will have to leave this country and spend their money in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and we will miss out on the revenue which could be...

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: We certainly have pressures in Dublin 15 which could not cope with that stadium.

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: I would-——

Seanad: Proposed Stadium at Lansdowne Road: Statements. (5 Feb 2004)

Sheila Terry: There was no support for Abbotstown but there was support for Eircom Park.