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- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: We are being steamrolled.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: We are being steamrolled on this.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Even backbenchers.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: This is not the House of Commons.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: This is not a Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party meeting.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Ceann Comhairle and I have been in this House for a long time.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Before taking up the post he currently occupies, Deputy Kirk was chairman of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. When he moved to his current position he took on new responsibilities, one of which was to uphold the constitutional integrity of this assembly. This is not a one party State and the Ceann Comhairle, on behalf of all Members of the House, could have said, when the Order of...
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: You could have done so, Sir, and by refusing to exercise the authority that is implicit in your office, you have demonstrated that you are unashamedly partisan in favour of the Government side of the House.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: This is not a slightly constitutional Republic, as some former members of the Fianna Fáil Party would have it.
- Order of Business. (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I move that it be taken next week.
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank my colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for allowing me to intervene in this debate. I have seldom spoken on health matters because, quite frankly, I know very little about the medical side of health and I would hate to have to deal with the complexity of the problems in our system. Therefore, I do not propose to try in any way to second guess those who have put much more effort and...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I had the temerity to say, "Do not let the Progressive Democrats sell St. Luke's".
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The former leader took great offence to it but the Minister's answer left that charge open. The best interests of the HSE could have been to realise its capital value and put it into the many areas where capital shortages are hindering her work.. St. Luke's works for an aspect of the healing care which is associated with the TB of our generation. We do not know everything; no generation...
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the fact that all five undergraduate primary teacher training colleges are owned and managed by the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland and that such colleges are extensively funded by the Irish taxpayer and bearing in mind the provisions of Article 44 of the Constitution, she considers the...
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills for her reply, but her response is somewhat inadequate as we approach the completion of first decade in the 21st century. This is a republic. Articles 42o and 44o of the Constitution provide for education. We have moved a long way from 1930. People are entitled to the right of conscience. The provision of education supported by...
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I am sorry but the Minister cannot say that.
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I did not ask the Minister to issue a diktat, to quote her own phrase. I asked her to act on the information volunteered to her and her Department, namely, that if a person requested the option it would be granted. I simply ask for that negative to be turned into a positive. In other words, a person does not have to ask but can avail of the option if he or she wants to because the...
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: May I reply?
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister cannot say the situation has not arisen. If one talks to the teachers' unions they will say privately it has arisen. The student teachers are scared to ask for it for fear of endangering their work opportunities.
- Colleges of Education (3 Jun 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: We will get to that later.