Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,338 for speaker:Kathleen O'Meara

Seanad: Railway Safety Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Amendment No. 8 is a Government amendment. As amendments Nos. 9 and 12 are cognate and amendments Nos. 10 and 11 are related, amendments Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive, may be discussed together, by agreement.

Seanad: Railway Safety Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Amendment No. 13 is a Government amendment. As amendments Nos. 14 to 18, inclusive, are cognate and amendment No. 42 is related, amendments Nos. 13 to 18, inclusive, and amendment No. 42 may be discussed together, by agreement.

Seanad: Railway Safety Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Amendments Nos. 22 and 23 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement.

Seanad: Railway Safety Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Amendment No. 32 is a Government amendment and amendment No. 33 is related. Amendments Nos. 32 and 33 may be taken together by agreement.

Seanad: Railway Safety Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Amendment No. 35 is a Government amendment, amendments Nos. 37 and 38 are cognate and amendments Nos. 39 and 40 are related. Therefore, amendments Nos. 35 and 37 to 40, inclusive, may be taken together by agreement.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I second the motion and offer it my full support. It is an important issue and I welcome the Minister of State here to discuss it. We are seeing a lot of him because many of the issues currently before the House concern children. This motion addresses the area of juvenile crime and the prevention of offences. The Government's amendment to the motion refers to the balance between the...

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: So in 2003 that number was in care.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I thank the Minister of State for that clarification. I take that point on board.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I am relying on information which was in the public domain.

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: The Minister of State would probably agree that the number of children in care, which obviously includes being admitted into care, has risen considerably during the past 15 years from 2,799 in 1989 to 5,517 in 2001. Clearly we are looking at a change in society. It must be taken into account that the number of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers coming into the country has increased from a few...

Seanad: Juvenile Offenders: Motion. (16 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: The earlier the better — pre-school and early childhood education.

Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (30 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for allowing me to raise the important matter of the specific allocation of funding for Nenagh General Hospital. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to reply to this matter. He will be aware that there is a considerable degree of local interest, in particular, in the future of Nenagh General Hospital. At least a year ago, the then Mid-Western...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He said that the HSE has informed the Department that the radiology-CT aspects require additional planning, etc. I take it that is the HSE at national level because it certainly is not the HSE at local level. That suggests there is a delay in this regard on the part of the HSE at national level. Therefore, there is a blockage to this funding being...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and I will check this information with my local sources. It is not in line with what I have been told nor with the reason I raised this matter.

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: Of course.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on issues relating to the labour force, particularly migrant workers, because of the anecdotal evidence about their treatment and the wage rates paid to them. We need to know if there is evidence of exploitation or if migrant workers are being used to push down average wage rates in this country and to displace Irish workers. If that is the case, it is a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: No, it is not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: It is not. I must say——

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Kathleen O'Meara: That is outrageous. Child care is not a middle-class issue.