Results 301-320 of 375 for speaker:Margaret Cox

Seanad: Estimates for 2004: Motion. (19 Nov 2003)

Margaret Cox: There is no cutback in numbers.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2003)

Margaret Cox: Will the Leader arrange a debate on the issue of advertising to children? The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland has invited submissions on this matter. If the Oireachtas debated this issue, particularly at this time of year when we see the continual daily intrusion into the lives of children and their exploitation, Members could put their views on the record and these could be submitted to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Jun 2003)

Margaret Cox: Will the Leader invite the Tánaiste to come before the House – hopefully before the recess – to discuss the issue of our competitiveness and the difficulties that businesses, particularly small and medium-sized firms, are facing? From next February the minimum wage will be raised to €7 per hour. This will have an impact on businesses at a time when we have failed to deal with the issue...

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (28 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was interested to hear some of Senator Terry's comments, which I will address at the end.

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (28 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: I look forward to the Minister of State's response.

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (28 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: Can European directives be amended? Can we ask the European Union to look at this directive and amend it?

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (28 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: Things have to change.

Seanad: Sustaining Progress: Statements. (27 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate. It is funny how times change. I did a course in industrial relations in the National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick, in the 1980s and I recall writing a project on whether there would be another agreement and what it would be called. I do not recollect what I thought it would be called but I predicted there would be...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: Will the Leader, in the context of the need for continuous improvement of our maternity services, ask the Minister for Health and Children to come before the House to debate the issue of securing additional funding for health boards to allow them to continue or to introduce the home birth and domino birth schemes in their areas? A difficult decision was recently made by the Western Health...

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: I reject the line constantly thrown out by the Opposition that patients receive a second class health service.

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: I wrote it down as somebody said it. In my experience the quality of work done by health care professionals is second to none.

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Margaret Cox: Nobody is more proud of the work they do. If I was to have a heart attack, suffer from cancer or any other condition that would make me seriously ill, I would not want to go to any other country to be treated. If somebody in need of medical care and attention goes to an accident and emergency department, he or she may have to wait on a trolley – I accept this and wish it was different –...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: Earlier this week the House engaged in a good debate on the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. I raised the question of maternity leave regulations which oblige expectant mothers to take four weeks of their maternity leave prior to delivery. An examination of the statistics will indicate that among European countries, Ireland has among the highest rate of premature babies, by two...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: Go home.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: It amuses me on this side of the House to hear how often the phrase "mismanagement of finances" is trotted out from the Opposition benches, as if the economic success we enjoyed over recent years, and the difference that it made, can be just wiped away with that one phrase. It is time Senators on the other side explained what they mean by it. Has "mismanagement of finances" allowed the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: This does not come from the mismanagement of finances.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: It annoys me when I hear the claim that the women of Ireland were paid off by thirty pieces of silver in the child benefit increase paid to them before the last election. How stupid does the Opposition think we are? Do they think people sell their souls or their votes for 30 pieces of silver or whatever back payment they receive? That is a disgraceful indictment of the women of Ireland and I...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: The Senator said that women who received their legitimate back payment voted for Fianna Fáil because they got a paltry few pounds in a back payment in the April to May period. That is absolutely ridiculous and I completely reject it. It is a sin that it is put on the record of this House.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: I very much welcome the focus on child benefit, as a payment that is not taxed or means tested. The message should continue to go very clearly from the Department of Social and Family Affairs and from the Houses of the Oireachtas to the Department of Finance that this payment is not to be means tested or taxed. This is a payment that goes to the heart of the family. It is one of the most...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 Mar 2003)

Margaret Cox: I hope he is because he has not met me when I am upset about maternity leave. I do not have to worry about it at the moment, before the question is asked.