Results 6,301-6,320 of 7,123 for speaker:Mary O'Rourke
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: The Senator will be here forever.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: It is Paul Leech.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: They are 21 years looking.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: The Senator is a member of the GIAI.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: If they got the Bill firstââ
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: That they would get reassurance from the Minister.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I love being a grandmother.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: It will not do so now.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Fat chance.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: What are those four words?
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for taking the trouble to read the report of the Second Stage debate. I acknowledge the he studied our comments and then deleted the grandfather clause. It was a funny clause, which I disliked intensely, and I thank him for deleting it. Reference was made to the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. I still have republican feelings and when the word "Royal" was...
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: However, I met people from the Royal College of Surgeons who said that foreign students applying to the college loved the word "Royal" in the title because it gave their parents a sense of security that they were sending their children to a well regulated body. I then gave up having an antipathy to the word. Herself will be here, I hope, in the next 12 months.
- Seanad: Building Control Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. I hope there is no hidden resentment against the RIAI and that if there is, it does not find expression. I also hope the Minister has erected sufficient walls to ensure this cannot happen and that he will oversee how it is proceeding with its business.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: At 10. 30 a.m. tomorrow.
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for remaining in the House to take this matter. I wish to put forward the case of St. Joseph's secondary school in Rochfordbridge, County Westmeath. This school is unique. Rochfordbridge is a small village and the school has been built up over the years to the point where it now has 700 post-primary pupils, which is an amazing feat. It was built up by the...
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Members know all that.
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I mentioned it.
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I want a band rating of 2.1.
- Seanad: School Accommodation. (21 Mar 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: It is great. The Senator should take his paws off myââ