Results 141-160 of 1,894 for speaker:Maire Devine
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Tiresome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: It is tiresome.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Well done.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: It seems this House should go into a formal group hug, although I am completely opposed to that, Grinch that I can sometimes be. We should never forget how long the struggle by trade unions and workers has taken to get this legislation.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: I thank colleagues in the Labour Party for attempting to re-establish the principles of Connolly. It is a great pity that the cause of labour comes a bit too late. They sat in government for five years and should have used their influence at the Cabinet table with colleagues in Fine Gael to get this Bill for workers through much more swiftly. Why was it not done? It was not done because...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Workers own this country - not businesses, not multinational corporations nor TTIP or CETA but the people - and they deserve decent pay. Fine Gael acted with arrogance in the last Government but its strength has been diminished and it now has to answer to its masters, Fianna Fáil. The Labour Party compromised itself and was unable to act against the might of Fine Gael. It watched...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: It concentrates on what will increase its support in the polls.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: It appears that the House will support this Labour Party Bill but we are thinking of the workers sitting at home wondering whether they will make the cut in tomorrow's job market, whether they will be hired if they get a shovel or how they will deal with their child care requirements. I do not understand why there was a problem getting this through but we are where we are. The Bill was...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: That is a bit insulting.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: They were zero-hour contract jobs.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: What the Minister said was insulting and he is glossing over the issue.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: The Minister of State has not got a clue what he is talking about.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: He did not have manners. This is rubbish. I am deeply hurt.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Finger wagging.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Weak solutions.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: Senator Nash knows nothing about me.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: I have experience. Senator Nash knows nothing about anybody else.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: I echo the points made by my colleagues about the number on patients on hospital trolleys. Meetings have been cancelled in the emergency department at St. James Hospital this morning because staff are being pushed to the limit. We are now at breaking point. I again refer to the treatment of mothers and their children. One of the scandals that was allowed to occur in mother and baby homes...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: It is in the news so I can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)
Maire Devine: This is about the treatment of our women, children and mothers across the country.