Results 261-280 of 305 for long speaker:Ciarán Cannon

Seanad: National Paediatric Hospital: Statements (17 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...of what the Minister is setting out to do in this regard. The construction of a new state-of-the-art children's hospital would be a most welcome development in health care in Ireland. We have a long and proud tradition of providing excellent health care for children in our existing children's hospitals despite the fact that the staff operating in those hospitals do so in what often are...

Seanad: Child Care Inquiry Report: Statements (28 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews. When we first read details of the litany of abuse these children were subjected to we had a terrible sense of déjÀ vu. This is another in a long line of reports that outline the plight of utterly defenceless children who felt helpless, that there was nobody they could turn to, that they were unable to seek the support of the State or rely...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...occurs this year or in subsequent years. It is also important that we pause to reflect on how we reacted to the plight of many families throughout the country as a result of the flooding. Not long after the flooding occurred last year, the Government put in place a €10 million hardship fund, which was most welcome. It has transpired that only 10% of the €10 million was actually...

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...to the ESRI's rule of thumb. The Government's recent target for job growth in tourism was immediately under pressure as it refused to scrap the nonsensical passenger tax. I am certain in the long run this tax will prove to cost more in lost revenue than it will collect. The tourism sector is still in for a tough year unless the Government introduces friendly policies to get more people...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...and, as part of Aer Rianta, does not have the freedom to compete for business to the fullest extent with Dublin. "The dead hand of Dublin was slowly strangling Shannon Airport'' he said and as long as Shannon and Cork remain under Aer Rianta ownership and control, they offer no competitive threat to the company's main profit generator, Dublin Airport. He said he wanted to see Shannon...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...security and real hope that within the next couple of months the children they have been waiting for will finally come to live with them in order to form the family unit they have been waiting so long to form.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (6 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...Children First and Meaning It, concluded that when children were taken into care, factors such as the age of entry into care and the speed with which action was taken to rehabilitate or find long-term alternatives were critical. It was chilling to learn in the report that a child over the age of ten years who had been in care for more than one year was likely to remain in care for the...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (6 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...remarked, "If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy." There was much discussion on this issue on Committee Stage, yet after a long and tortuous debate on both Second and Committee Stages, the Minister of State will still use the word "detained" in the legislation, even though it has many negative connotations. It...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...that any such intervention must not only be effective but must also be proportionate. The new article also holds out the possibility of adoption to approximately 2,000 children presently in long-term care, mainly long-term foster care, who have no realistic prospect of being brought up by one or both of their biological parents for the rest of their childhood. As the Minister of State...

Seanad: Archaeological Sites (17 Feb 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...a response from the Department stating that the application for ministerial consent for works to the national monument was being processed as expeditiously as possible. In June 2008, I received a long letter from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, which concluded: "I must now proceed with making the decision on the application for ministerial...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Feb 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...new skills ... I get a lot of praise in school now. It's changed my attitude, I'm much more reasonable ... I think I'd like to go to college and become a full-time youth worker. This is the real, long-term value to be achieved in continuing to invest in young people. We are discussing how the State deals with the fall-out from inadequate services and how best to care for those young...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...a new school as its main priority and has entered into communication with the planning and building unit of the Department in this regard. In 2007, the school planning section determined that the long-term accommodation requirements of St. Catherine's school would require space for a principal, eight mainstream teachers and ancillary staff. It was also determined that a new school would...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...building. That has been the response with which I am very disappointed. I despair of the wisdom of suggesting that a school should continue to spend €1,728 per month on renting two prefabs as a long-term solution when that money being more wisely invested on a permanent solution would be the preferable outcome.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...is appallingly short-sighted. I was told by those present that the level of investment, predominantly in the north inner city, was in the order of €12 per week per young person. That is a wise long-term investment that should pay significant dividends in the future. I remember reading an article in The Irish Times last August and I retained a quote from one such young person who was...

Seanad: Banking Sector: Statements (26 Jan 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: ...convince the people, those who elect us, that we are firmly on their side. Immediately restoring credit to struggling businesses and announcing a full public inquiry must be the first two steps along the long road to recovery. I will refer to two issues raised by the Minister of State, Deputy Martin Mansergh. He said that, unlike the Committee of Public Accounts DIRT inquiry, the issues...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the Financial Times and the gurus in the European Central Bank than in protecting those who deserve our protection. I called to the store room in the basement in Leinster House last week and had a long chat with one of the men working there. He queried me on my opinion as to whether his pay would be subject to a cut in the budget. He told me he was working eight years in the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: ...how to address people's needs and concerns over the coming days. Second, we will not be able to prevent such events from recurring but we must examine how to put measures in place that, in the long term, will be able to cope more comprehensively and cohesively with them. This is a once in a century event but, if we are to believe climatologists and others who have spoken in the media in...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: I congratulate Senator Carroll on his election to the Seanad and wish him well in what surely will be a long and productive career in what remains, despite the actions of a few, a noble profession.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: .... We also deemed it acceptable, and rightly so, to hand over €750 million from our national budget to overseas development aid. How come, when our own people cry out for hope at the end of a long and traumatic experience, the most we can commit to them is €10 million? I despair. I ask Members opposite, if they are having a parliamentary party meeting this week, to raise this issue...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (9 Nov 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: ...describes it. The legislation there contained many more punitive measures. There was a wholesale clear-out of its banking executives, but most importantly of all, there was no payment of a long-term economic value to the banks. In this country one eminent economist warned last year that buying the toxic loans at inflated prices would amount to a back-door recapitalisation of the banks....