Results 561-580 of 1,597 for speaker:Cecilia Keaveney

Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: That would not be in order.

Seanad: Postgraduate Medical Training (21 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I would like to point out that a maxillofacial surgeon has recently been based in the north west, at Altnagelvin Hospital. It is a welcome development.

Seanad: Student Support Schemes (21 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I welcome the Minister of State. I appreciate that the Minister for Education and Science is abroad at present. The Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, needs to meet his Northern counterpart to discuss some students' lack of access to certain supports. Bursaries and other forms of financial assistance are not available to students from the Republic. That is a cause of serious hardship for...

Seanad: Student Support Schemes (21 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I appreciate the very lengthy answer. does the Minister of State agree that bursaries offered by universities should be open to all students? That is where I am coming from. Where a university support is called a bursary, the best student should get it. I know the danger of opening up schemes to everybody. In Stormont we were able to move on the concept of the North-South parliamentary...

Seanad: State Airports (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: We could cycle.

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I thank Senator Doherty for sharing his time with me. I had put forward a motion that the Minister for Health and Children should outline the outstanding issues that remain for the colposcopy service at Letterkenny to attain national cancer screening service, NCSS, recognition and how these issues can be overcome. I must begin by declaring my interest because I could well be the woman,...

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Although 11 colposcopy services have been recognised, I am still asking the same question with which I started. Perhaps the Minister of State could obtain for me an explanation of the outstanding issues that are preventing the colposcopy service at Letterkenny from attaining recognition and how these can be overcome. One of the statements made again and again over the last number of weeks...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: What about the shoes?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Senator Buttimer is not sitting in a council chamber now.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Given the example set by the Opposition when it was in power, yesterday would have been an interesting story had we not been in Government. I say this despite all of the details of what the Opposition believes the Government did wrong yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The Opposition did not create any boom.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I did not interrupt Senators because——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: ——I was not in a council chamber earlier and I am not in one now.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I had no bother learning in the council chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: And you should not heckle me.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: In welcoming the additional money for disability, mental health and suicide prevention services, I note the 125 additional therapy posts. Will the Leader invite the Minister of State with responsibility for the Health Professions Council, Deputy Moloney, to the Seanad this session? We could consider having creative arts therapies, including music therapy, officially recognised. Recently, I...

Seanad: Infectious Diseases (14 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this most important issue. I raise the issue of MRSA not to indict hospitals or, in this case, dentists, but just to flag the issue and request some information. I do it with no intention other than this. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, for being here to respond. Coinciding with my decision to ask about MRSA auditing in...

Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I am pleased to speak for a few minutes on this important topic. As an island nation we do not have a sufficient number of debates on marine issues. It is disappointing that Members are not queuing up to talk about them, as we do in regard to many other topics, and use the facility of Second Stage to not only address the Bill but introduce other issues. I welcome the Minister of State,...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "—recognises the major investment by Government since 1997 in our schools, in the provision of additional school places to meet demographic expansion, investment in school buildings throughout the country, additional teachers and other supports including: the investment of more than €2.6...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: If anybody should acknowledge the changes, it is Senator O'Toole.