Results 781-800 of 992 for speaker:Gabrielle McFadden

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I welcome the Minister to the House. I did not intend speaking and I do not have a need to talk down the clock as some Members are doing. When I hear phrases such as "rotten system", "appointing friends" and "threats to the media", I cannot but speak. While I understand the reason the Minister has put forward the Bill, it is important to point out that the Judiciary has served us very well...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: It could be argued that the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, JAAB, needs to be changed with respect to how it does its business, to make it more transparent and to ensure it proposes fewer names to the Government. It has provided us with many excellent judges over the years. We have a Judiciary that is proud of its independence from Government. I disagree with Senator Daly's comments...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: -----the late Gráinne O'Neill, Deirdre Gearty, Leonie Reynolds and Mary Devins. It is important we acknowledge that the Judiciary is independent of Government and that, thus far, all judges, male and female, have been appointed on merit. Many Members of the Oireachtas have used this debate to attack the Judiciary. Some of them are interested only in progressing personal vendettas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for attending. The development of mental health services in the country is evidenced by the fact that we have a Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care and a Minister of State with responsibility for mental health. Those are very forward-thinking measures which bring mental health into the open and encourage people to talk about it, which was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: The Minister is sure to be re-elected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: That is politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Perhaps, but the Minister will not know about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, to the House to engage in his own portfolio? Fáilte Ireland launched a brand, Ireland's Hidden Heartlands, for the midlands. It was launched with huge fanfare a couple of month ago in my home town in my constituency. For some strange reason they decided not to invite anybody who was not from the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Defence Forces Remuneration (19 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House again. On 3 August 1923, the new Irish State passed the Defence Forces Act, which raised an armed force to be called Óglaigh na hÉireann, comprising such numbers of officers, non-commissioned officers and men as may from time to time be provided by the Oireachtas, the new Parliament of the Irish Free State. Ever since that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Defence Forces Remuneration (19 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I will be very brief.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Defence Forces Remuneration (19 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Okay, I will be very brief. I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I do not deny his or the Government's respect for, or pride in, the Defence Forces. However, the pay commission is taking too long. Some time between 2012 and 2013, I told the Minster of State that technician's pay needed to be reinstated. I raised that with the Minister of the State back then but it still has not...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: To take up the previous speaker's point about the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the Minister never said the bonus would not be paid. It is disingenuous for anyone to have said that.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I am not saying Senator Nash did so. It had been leaked and that is where the problem lies. When things are leaked and taken out of context, people are terrorised and frightened. Old-age pensioners were fearful this morning because of a leaked document. It was fake news, basically, and I do not think that is right. I would like to speak on housing, as everybody would. Councillors,...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: -----and to housing those who are homeless. I feel there are a few things councils could look at doing. I would like the Minister to come to the House to have a debate with us on the issues. One of the things I am concerned about is the repair and lease scheme. It was instigated by the previous housing Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney. It is a very good scheme but it has not been taken up...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I raise the plight of assistant psychologists. These people study for three years for their undergraduate degrees, and most of them pay approximately €10,000 to do their masters degrees. They then become assistant psychologists but they do not get paid work. To get paid work, they have to study for clinical doctorates but in to gain admission to the relevant course, they have to...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I was very upset to read in the newspapers over the weekend about a report from Focus Ireland on the growing number of young people leaving State care and becoming homeless. Many young people leave State care and transition successfully into independent living but it is not good enough that any child finds himself or herself homeless. Focus Ireland is calling for money to be ring-fenced for...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Perhaps Athlone.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I wish to raise the issue of people being charged to view rental accommodation. Threshold came out last week to talk about this and it wants something done to protect tenants.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Landlords are charging fees for tenants to view houses which are non-refundable-----