Results 6,541-6,560 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: You seem to presume an awful lot.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: If I could continue without interruption-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: I will not take lectures from the likes of-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: Can I finish?
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: This is not a playground.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: I substantiate it with the fact that the Minister is heaping misery on tens of thousands of carers through the cuts he made last week. That is all the evidence I need to realise where you are coming from.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: With respect to the carers listening to this debate, behind every carer there is the individual for whom he or she provides care. That individual has rights.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: Did I say you did not?
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: There is no need to apologise to me or the House. The Minister should apologise to the carers.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister should listen, for once, to what people have to say.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: If the Minister would just listen for a moment, he might get an understanding of what people are going through.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: If you listened to people out there, you would not be coming in here to vote for cuts to respite care grants.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: I know what it is like.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: Up to last August, my mother was a full-time carer for my father, who passed away from motor neuron disease-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: -----so do not tell me what carers do.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: I just justified it.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: I just justified it. You come in here and talk about the role of carers and how-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: In the past you have.
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: You are a member of this Government and it has implemented cuts which are absolutely devastating tens of thousands of families-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Jonathan O'Brien: -----throughout this State. I will not take any lectures from you in here.