Results 1,281-1,300 of 1,467 for speaker:Geraldine Feeney
- Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I listened in my office to every speaker before I came into the Chamber and I did not interrupt anybody.
- Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I am being very accurate.
- Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I am delighted to see that the Department is now ready to recruit 200 social workers. The Minister of State has highlighted his great concern at the fact that 16% of the children in State care do not have a social worker. I hope the new allocation of social workers will address this. The existence of a Minister of State with responsibility for children is a major step because now the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 May 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I support the calls for a debate on services for older people. In doing so I congratulate those involved with the "Prime Time" programme for the special report broadcast last night by which I was very moved. What was shown was nothing short of disgraceful. One would have to be made of stone not to be moved in seeing a young man who has been struck down and crossed the oceans of the world...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the debate tomorrow on the terrible situation that pertains in Israel, Gaza and the wider area. Like other Senators, I voice my outrage at the storming of the aid ship by Israeli forces. Innocent lives were lost. They were people who were trying to obtain human rights for the suppressed people of Gaza. Will the Leader ensure the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin,...
- Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and, like Senator Fitzgerald, thank her for spendng so much time in this Chamber. I am sure all Members will agree it was a treat to listen to her excellent presentation. She has an incredible grasp of her brief down to the most minute detail and appears to deliver on it with such ease that I imagine, were Members to ask about...
- Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: It is.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Like Enda.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I thank Senator Keaveney for sharing time. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, and thank him for being with us. It is a little boisterous and lively but he is used to that kind of debate. I am delighted to speak to the amendment expressing confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen. I hail from the same neck of the woods. Unlike Senator Phelan, I know the Taoiseach well. For...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: ââand we will wish Deputy Kenny well in his vote of no confidence. It is something of an own goal on behalf of the Opposition when they table a motion like this. It is a damp squib tabling a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach when their own party is in such disarray. An election in the morning â they all are shouting for it â would be the last thing they would need because...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Senator has no confidence in Deputy Enda Kenny.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: We are not interrupting the Senator.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Minister of State is listening to her.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: What about the Fine Gael manifesto?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: There is no question of lecturing.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Fine Gael is falling apart. That is all that is wrong with it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: That is not what happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Boyle's call for a debate on mental health, concentrating in particular on the area of detention. Senator Boyle's story of a 26 year old girl who has been in a mental institution for the past five years because a person believes if she is not so confined she will be promiscuous beggars belief. I recall the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, saying last week...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010: Second Stage (23 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Government Chief Whip has indicated he does not object to Senator Buttimer speaking out of turn.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010: Second Stage (23 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Is that agreed? Agreed.