Results 4,061-4,080 of 4,899 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I want it clarified that it was not me. Senator Ruane must clarify that.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Minister of State took my spiel at the end.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We need a referendum.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is great to have a good debate and we are all making sure that 16 year olds and 17 year olds get to vote. It is time for the much-promised referendum on reducing the voting age to 16 or 17. We must look at the voting age in other countries. In Austria, only 16 year olds who are working can vote and in 2015, 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland were granted the vote for local and Scottish...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I would-----
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes. The following May, in 2019.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I can only speak on behalf of the Institute of Technology, Carlow, and I have spoken about it many times. Let us consider the criteria and statistics, and criteria mean a lot. In Carlow, there are 8,000 learners in the current academic year, which represents a 66% increase in total enrolments and a 68% increase in the number of graduates. In addition, 92% of graduates from the Institute of...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Technological university status is about equality and fairness. The culture at Institute of Technology, Carlow puts its students at the heart of everything it does. Its culture of equality, openness, respect and inclusion is exactly the ethos we seek in a university. Technological university status will give us equal opportunity and offer a choice in the third level market. The...
- Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Saying today that there was a time when women could not vote, same-sex marriage was not allowed and slavery was legal seems insane in our modern world. Things that are now normal and taken for granted were unheard of 100 years ago, yet there are things that are still perceived to be normal that in 50 years will seem to be insane. In the 100 years since women won the right to vote, there...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I want to address a very serious problem in our child protection system and, in particular, the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report which suggests that we are not doing our job in terms of child protection in Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary. Young people are being left at risk because standards in these counties are very weak. Last November, HIQA undertook an inspection of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In the past week we have all been devastated at the news over the vulture funds and I know the Minister will be addressing it. I want to bring to the attention of the House a particular case I have been dealing with. It is crucial and I have had several of these. Vulture funds are investment companies that pick the bones of the living. The vulture fund companies need to be regulated just...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know that, but I want to bring it up because it is so important. I am aware of a property-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know that but I just want to bring it up now because it is about a house.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Under the Order of Business, I want to bring it up. I am aware of a property-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know that. I am aware of a property in Carlow which was purchased as part of a portfolio of a high-profile Dublin property investor sold by the bank, Permanent TSB, to a vulture fund company. This property was wanted-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is for me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am sorry, but for me it is. It is the Order of Business, we are allowed to bring up anything we want, and I insist on bringing this up now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes, okay.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It does mention that the Minister is coming in.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The problem is that I have another meeting. I am hoping to get back in. It is not that simple. I just want to finish this.