Results 701-720 of 935 for speaker:Mary Moran
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: The Minister of State, Deputy Perry, always seems to take those Adjournment debates where I am not happy with the response. I am very disappointed in this instance. Where a child has an intellectual disability or, as in this case, special needs, we must consider each case individually. If the child was attending a normal school, that is, one that was not a special school, his parents could...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: They have been given no guarantee of a place in September.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: Hopefully. I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry. I would appreciate a comment or response from the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairà Quinn, on the case of a young ten year old boy whose parents have withdrawn him from school due to their concerns about him. I sent the details to the Minister for Education and Skills a few weeks ago and I hope he provided them to the...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry. I would appreciate a comment or response from the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairà Quinn, on the case of a young ten year old boy whose parents have withdrawn him from school due to their concerns about him. I sent the details to the Minister for Education and Skills a few weeks ago and I hope he provided them to the...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: The Minister of State, Deputy Perry, always seems to take those Adjournment debates where I am not happy with the response. I am very disappointed in this instance. Where a child has an intellectual disability or, as in this case, special needs, we must consider each case individually. If the child was attending a normal school, that is, one that was not a special school, his parents could...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: They have been given no guarantee of a place in September.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: Hopefully. I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister to the House and add my support to the Bill. I welcome the Minister's comments to the effect that his priority is to proceed with the establishment of the registration boards for the professions designated under the 2005 legislation. I will reiterate Senator Burke's comments, in that this work must be done in a timely and efficient manner. I look forward to it. In...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: Every year we have the reaction to the budget. No matter what Government is in office, be it Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael and the Labour Party, the Opposition parties will always attack it. That is the way it is. As regards the respite care grant and other cuts, we may banter over and back depending on what Government is in office, but I am concerned that people are genuinely suffering. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: I wish to echo Senator Bacik's concern on the recent escalation of violence in Belfast, particularly the attempted murder last night. I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I recently attended the opening of the Skainos centre in east Belfast on the Newtownards Road. It was opened by the First Minister, Peter Robinson, and the Deputy First...
- Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (6 Dec 2012)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister and those from the Humanist Association. I commend Senator Bacik on her work in bringing the legislation to this Stage and the Minister and her officials. The Bill is a sign that we are growing up and the position where legal marriages can only be conducted by a HSE registrar or a member of a religious body should be amended. We have to recognise that the number of...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (21 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, for coming to the House. I look forward to hearing his comments on the plight of a constituent of mine in Dundalk. The lady in question obtained a third level qualification in 2000. Unfortunately, after working for several years she was made redundant and has been on jobseeker's allowance since then. Commendably, she decided that rather...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (21 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: I am afraid that the response does not progress the query I have any further. Perhaps I should also outline that the lady was refused the student maintenance grant because she was in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, but she was not in receipt of it because she had to forgo it in order to go back to education. The current appeal process for SUSI, which I accept relates to a different...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (21 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: By the time the appeal is dealt with by SUSI the course could be over.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (21 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: Senator Darragh O'Brien seems to have a problem with women today in the House. I inform him that women are well able to speak for themselves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: Excuse me-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Mary Moran: I take exception to the way the Senator referred to this matter.