Results 461-480 of 1,597 for speaker:Cecilia Keaveney
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I was supporting the Senator's point.
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I was interested to hear the Minister talk so much about maths. I was wondering when is 15 minutes, 15 minutes?
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I suppose we will all get the same injury time.
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I am only going on past performance.
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I did not interrupt anyone and I do not want to lose my time now.
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I went to school when I was three and I left education at 27. I am a product of the education system of the 1970s and 1980s. I came out with a BMus, a PgC, an MPhil and an LTCL and then I landed here. There are many questions to be asked in that regard. I went through a good education system but I can point to the faults, some of which I will outline. Some things have not changed since I...
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: If we do not start with children from the beginning then there is no point in doing all the remedial work when they get to primary school.
- Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: That is the kernel of one of the issues. It is great being in opposition. I was in opposition the first year that I was elected and I had a field day. I could fire out all the ideas about what I wanted to do without doing the costing. There is a battle between fourth level versus pre-school, second level versus primary, and VEC schools versus community schools. There are real issues. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on entrepreneurship. This country is full of people who have great ideas. Some of them lost their jobs recently. All of them have a work ethic and are dependable, traits that attracted businesses to invest here. People here have a good work ethic, getting up in the morning and working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. We must find mechanisms to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: Never.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I hope it is sent to everyone.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I look forward to getting my copy of it.
- Seanad: Report on European Union Scrutiny: Statements (3 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I wish to comment on the measure before the House today because I have raised this issue a number of times. I am unsure whether anyone has addressed the second side of the labelling issue as most Members have stuck to the issue of food labelling. I must take a contrary view to that expressed by Senator Burke to the effect he did not necessarily wish to know what food contained from a...
- Seanad: Sport and Recreational Development (3 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I am delighted that the Minister has attended to take my Adjournment matter, which requests him to work with his Northern counterparts, the GAA and the northern federation for sport to develop a sport for peace concept. I will give a prelude. A football for peace project is ongoing in Israel and Palestine. On the back of this, County Donegal and the rest of Ulster have run a football for...
- Seanad: Sport and Recreational Development (3 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: I value the Minister's answer but it emphasised North-South co-operation rather than sport for all. Will the Minister go back to the agencies and explore the concept of tasting the other, non-traditional sport? Everyone is happy in his or her little clique and will work within that clique, whether North-South or South-North, but the problem is to get them to move from their traditional...
- Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (3 Feb 2009)
Cecilia Keaveney: If one did not getââ
- Seanad: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Dec 2008)
Cecilia Keaveney: I welcome the honesty of the Minister of State's reply. In May this year, 400 people had been waiting for more than 12 months for treatment at Letterkenny General Hospital. While the figure stood at 316 in December, the decrease is not significant when one considers that 260 patients can be referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund in two weeks. While I commend the efforts being...
- Seanad: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Dec 2008)
Cecilia Keaveney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this matter for discussion on the Adjournment. I also thank him for his forbearance during this session and accommodating many of the important issues I have raised. I raised this issue, waiting lists in Letterkenny General Hospital and access to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, in the House on 8 May. There appears to be a problem in County...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)
Cecilia Keaveney: This is a very serious day for the fishing industry. I echo the calls of Senator O'Toole that we send a message of solidarity to the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, to whom I spoke this morning, who has been in Brussels for a couple of days, and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Smith, who travels there today. The fishing industry got a boost a few years ago with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)
Cecilia Keaveney: He is afraid he will not get a word in.