Results 24,021-24,040 of 26,320 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not sure whether there is a problem in mentioning the Secretary General of the Department of Health, who is Mr. Ambrose McLoughlin, and-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I am going to defend them now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: I am defending them against the Government using them as a shield. Let us be straight on this. We tabled amendments to the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 that proposed a new director general would be subject to the public appointments Act but the Government rejected that. The Minister hand-picked these two individuals. I listened to Government Deputies and Senators...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: The buck stops with him. One cannot get away from that. The one solution is to reverse the cut. I do not think any of us, or any Member on the Government side, wants to see cuts that affect carers or people who are badly incapacitated, such as the people yesterday who made a great effort to come to protest outside Leinster House. The cut is being made for the sake of ¤8 million. If the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----or one of his Ministers of State ? I believe he is talking to both of them at the moment, which is good ? would come to the House today to tell us what is Government policy on home-care hours. Page 38 of the programme for Government states that not only would the Government retain existing home-care packages but it would increase them. The programme for Government was signed up to by...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch the people at the higher end of the scale in the health service, for whom he advocated long enough in his private capacity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch them but he will cut people who earn less than ¤10 an hour.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps when Senator Bacik gets to her feet she will tell me if it is Labour Party policy to cut home-care hours and whether she, as the leader of the Labour Party group-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----in the Seanad has asked the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to reverse the cuts to home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: A total of 950,000 hours have been cut this year alone. It is an absolute disgrace.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik should deal with home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Rightly so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator Bacik does not want to address home-care packages.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: The buck stops with him. One cannot get away from that. The one solution is to reverse the cut. I do not think any of us, or any Member on the Government side, wants to see cuts that affect carers or people who are badly incapacitated, such as the people yesterday who made a great effort to come to protest outside Leinster House. The cut is being made for the sake of ¤8 million. If the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----or one of his Ministers of State ? I believe he is talking to both of them at the moment, which is good ? would come to the House today to tell us what is Government policy on home-care hours. Page 38 of the programme for Government states that not only would the Government retain existing home-care packages but it would increase them. The programme for Government was signed up to by...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch the people at the higher end of the scale in the health service, for whom he advocated long enough in his private capacity.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: He will not touch them but he will cut people who earn less than ¤10 an hour.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps when Senator Bacik gets to her feet she will tell me if it is Labour Party policy to cut home-care hours and whether she, as the leader of the Labour Party group-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: -----in the Seanad has asked the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to reverse the cuts to home-care hours.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Darragh O'Brien: A total of 950,000 hours have been cut this year alone. It is an absolute disgrace.