Results 621-640 of 7,123 for speaker:Mary O'Rourke
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (2 Oct 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the nursing home payments will be repaid to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and the reason for the long delay. [21885/07]
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: They were delighted.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I am very glad to have the opportunity to speak in this debate here today and, like others, to congratulate Dr. Deputy James Reilly, if that is not a mouthful, and Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. In particular, I congratulate the Minister who is some mighty woman, as the Ceann Comhairle and I both know. I am sure Deputy O'Sullivan will be, or is, a mighty woman too. Not to leave out Deputy Reilly,...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I am pleased to see the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, but I am disappointed that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, is not here to hear this important debate. Perhaps he has other engagements â I was often in that impasse and understand why one must cut one's cloth according to what one has. I hope the Minister of State can ad lib as well as stating what he was told by the Department. A...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I hope Deputy Sargent will do something for me.
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: What about the aquifer?
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: All right.
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Am I allowed to speak again?
- Water and Sewerage Schemes. (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: That is lovely.
- Order of Business (5 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: He is paraphrasing me wrongly.
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I wish to share time with Deputies Cyprian Brady, Tom Kitt, Chris Andrews, Ciarán Cuffe and Tony Killeen. My brief contribution to the debate will focus on waste management in general rather than the specific case of the Poolbeg incinerator. As Deputies have not yet formally done so, I welcome the Green Party to government. I have no grief about Fine Gael tabling the motion because it has...
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Will the Deputy let me finish?
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I have been impressed by the sophistication and mettle shown by Green Party Deputies in entering government. It would have been easy for them to give interviews hither and thither and make all sorts of statements. They did not do so and chose instead to keep quiet. The House should pay tribute to the previous Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, who...
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Not during my maiden speech, though a maiden I am not, obviously. However, I wish to mention that I made money on the Green Party. When I was canvassing in rural Athlone one night, I met a man who asked me whether I had â¬20 on me. I said I had and he told me to give it to him and he would put a bet on Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats. As I made â¬180, I am...
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I was told it was five minutes.
- Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: That is fine.
- Special Educational Needs. (26 Jun 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I congratulate the Minister on her re-appointment to the Department of Education and Science and thank her for being here for this debate. I welcome the relatively slim paragraph in the programme for Government which mentions the applied behavioural analysis, ABA, method for dealing with autism in young children. I have a particular personal interest in this matter from my family history...
- Special Educational Needs. (26 Jun 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Deputy and I also congratulate her on retaining her seat.
- Nomination of Taoiseach. (14 Jun 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: It will be five years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: What about Dinny McGee's Cottage?