Results 641-660 of 880 for speaker:Catherine Ardagh

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I congratulate the gardaí in Ashbourne on two successful raids. We learned from the assistant commissioner this morning that these drugs raids were worth not less €5 million. This seizure is a major disruption to the drug gangs and organised crime gangs in our country. It was a joint effort on the part of the national drugs and organised crime bureau and the special crime task...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: He is a good Fianna Fáil man.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I would like to speak to Fianna Fáil's amendment to this motion. Fianna Fáil will table an amendment to the Sinn Féin motion on JobPath. Our party is, of course, in favour of measures that support people in getting back into employment, and we recognise that employment support schemes have in many respects made positive contributions to thousands of people, assisting them in...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That Seanad Éireann:” and substitute:“ recognises: -that full employment, where possible, is the aim of all parties in this House; -the importance of and need for activation measures which assist people moving from welfare into employment; -that employment support schemes have assisted thousands of people into...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to convey my sympathies and those of the Fianna Fáil group to the families of the 400 killed and the thousands injured on the border between Iraq and Iran, especially in the western provinces. It was one of the largest earthquakes to hit the region in the recent years measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. It is a major humanitarian crisis for the area and it will leave many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Can I use my telephone to look at documents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Unfortunately, I will not be able to able to stay for the responses to my questions. I thank the officials for coming in to discuss this interesting topic. We all know how successful the community employment schemes have been in our constituencies and nationally. I am glad to hear about the amnesty or disregard that will allow more people who have previously participated in community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: People get very upset when they have to sign on for a year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Okay. Thanks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Yes. They only have a year to play with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is also a question of community cohesiveness. Most of these schemes are really in the community. We have a great deal of interaction with people on community employment schemes because they are involved in projects we are working with. This could be a good idea in terms of greater value for the community.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to register my disgust that waiting lists for hospital treatments are up to almost 685,000 patients. Some lists have reduced due to Fianna Fáil's insistence that the National Treatment Purchase Fund be reactivated but this decrease is negligible. One also hears anecdotally that waiting lists for cancer testing, monitoring and treatment also have lengthened. This flies in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: They are still astronomical.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is not correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to raise the issue of the Paradise Papers. We have all been hearing in recent days about different individuals who have been able to take advantage of some of the fruitful tax arrangements to which these papers refer. Ultimately, it was a database of information that highlighted the tax affairs of some of the wealthiest individuals and companies in the world. Why is this matter...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I want to raise two matters today. The first concerns a report from the European Committee of Social Rights, a European watchdog, which found there to be inadequate standards of living accommodation in certain housing estates in Ireland and shows that there has been a serious deterioration in the standard of accommodation since the financial crisis. The report names housing estates in...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: The Leader has not addressed the question I asked. He is not answering the right question.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I would like to raise two issues, the first of which is health care, while the second is leniency in sentencing. According to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, the State and the Government are condemning acutely ill patients to experiencing unacceptable delays which will result in avoidable deaths in acute hospitals because of a chronic lack of capacity. Speaking at its...