Results 4,941-4,960 of 7,123 for speaker:Mary O'Rourke

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I used to have very clandestine meetings with Senator O'Toole and Mr. Kieran Mulvey of the ASTI. These meetings were often held before attending a conference in order to hammer out points of view. I recall that we met in the Gresham Hotel. Ministers hold clinics all the time. I never had a note taker in my clinic; I took my own notes. People come to see their representatives in their clinics....

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Nonetheless, he telephoned me and did not need any ethical guidelines to do so.

Seanad: Migration Report: Statements. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: We will all travel with the Minister of State on the next occasion.

Seanad: Migration Report: Statements. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Who serves them their food in hotels?

Seanad: Migration Report: Statements. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Next Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Killeen, for his attendance today and his summing up of our debate, which was remarkably lucid. I followed it on the monitor. This motion concerns a secondary school in Kilbeggan. A commission on education stated a considerable time ago that Kilbeggan should have a new secondary school on a greenfield...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: We knew all of that.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Not at all. I thank the Minister of State. He is only delivering the speech on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science. Until the last paragraph I knew everything included in the reply. I wanted to know when it will progress to the next step. I did not get an answer and that is a matter of great regret. Perhaps somebody in a Department is peeping into his or her screen and might give...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Morrissey is not here.

Seanad: Deaths of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: We are saddened today that the representatives of each party must rise to voice sympathy on the deaths of two former Members of this House, John Mannion and Pat Codd. The former Senator, John Mannion of Fine Gael, served on the agricultural panel in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1977. He was a member of Galway County Council for a long period, and of the former Western Health Board and other...

Seanad: Deaths of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Now we are coming to it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is Nos. 1 and 2. No. 1, Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 — Report and Final Stages, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude not later than 5 p.m.; and No. 2, Road Safety Authority Bill 2004 — Second Stage (resumed), to be taken at 5.30 p.m. and to conclude not later than 7 p.m., with the contributions of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes raised the wildcat industrial action by locomotive drivers and particularly the fact people were not informed of the action. If they had been informed, they would not have crowded into Kent Station only to be sent away. Young students in Kildare were setting off for university exams and we heard one of them on radio yesterday. One must consider the discommoding of people...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I thought "Questions & Answers" was very good and most explanatory. People were calm and gave their opinions. Slow as it is, there is a movement towards reform which, hopefully, will be allowed to proceed. If it is, we will have a better hospital service.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Mansergh referred to the public capital programme and the €427 million being invested in CIE in 2006. He spoke about being approached outside the Mansion House by the Aer Lingus unions but said there was no parallel between the privatisation of Aer Lingus and the wildcat strikes. Senator Norris seemed to think Senator Mansergh was comparing the two cases but he was not. He was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 25, motion 23. No. 1, a referral motion whereby the subject matter of motion 14 on today's Order Paper is being referred to the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights for consideration, concerns the examination of measures aimed at simplifying the exchange of information and intelligence between law enforcement authorities of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: It is quite possible.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Sméara dubha.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Finucane, the acting leader of Fine Gael, raised the serious matter of housing. All of us who conduct public business at weekends will know it remains, and has always been, the biggest issue affecting people. I now notice parents becoming very much involved. Parents come to us about their son or daughter who needs a house. They are very willing to put money down or to help...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: This debate is quite foolish. I do not mean the Senator is foolish — I know well he is not one bit foolish.