Results 10,561-10,580 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: It is disappointing that the Tánaiste did not deem it necessary to stay in the House to discuss these amendments.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: She has spent very little time on this important issue, which affects a huge number of people. That is the difficulty.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: It affects 15,000 people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: Excuse me. I have the floor.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: Given that this issue affects 15,000 people in the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, the least the Tánaiste could have done was stay to engage in some kind of meaningful debate about what is going on. I spoke earlier about the unfair pensions regime in this country. The Government promised to reform it but is has backed off on those reforms. We saw that happening last year. The...
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: In spite of the sympathetic noises from the ministerial benches and backbenches, if people believe in the rights of the workers involved in the IASS, they should stand up for them and support this amendment, which would ensure those rights were upheld.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: No.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: That was accepted.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: I support those who oppose section 3 because it is the key section of the legislation. It provides for the charging for water. I oppose this section because I am of the view that the game is up for water charges. The bottom line is that the public simply does not accept water charges. If the Minister has ever doubted that, he need only recall the hundreds of thousands of people who took...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister clarify the exemption from the EU Water Framework Directive, Article 9.4? I heard what he said in an earlier response and received a reply to a parliamentary question from him this evening but I am still not entirely clear about this. It is suggested that the facility for an exemption allows a situation where a member state does not have full recovery of costs when it...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: I know that. I have made that clear.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: The exemption expires.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: I did not suggest that the directive expires. It is the exemption that expires.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: It is important for the Minister to clarify this point. There is a facility for an exemption-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, exactly.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: It has, actually.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: It is, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister spoke about this earlier.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister has made two statements today, at least.