Results 701-720 of 875 for speaker:Catherine Ardagh
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: Today, I wish to raise two short issues. First, it is with great regret that I rise again today to raise the issue of the Garda Commissioner. We have learned that the irregularities in Templemore are much more severe than we originally thought. We learned yesterday that the Garda Commissioner has confirmed there is reasonable cause to suspect fraud has been committed regarding Garda bank...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: My apologies. I extend the sympathies of the Fianna Fáil Party to Bernadette, the wife of Mr. Thomas Power, who died during the week in an ambulance on his way to Cork University Hospital. Mr. Power was only 40. He was due to be a first-time father and he passed away, as we know, because there was no specialist cardiac facilities in Waterford. I wish to amend the Order of Business to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: No. We are going to accept the Leader's offer for the Minister to come in on Tuesday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: Tuesday is fine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: Today I would like to use my time to raise the issue of the appointment of Máire Whelan to the Court of Appeal. What we have seen in the past week is ducking and diving by the Taoiseach and members of the Cabinet. All they seem to pivot back to is the line that Máire Whelan is that eminently qualified for the post. I am sure that the three High Court judges who formally expressed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I would like to address that matter and the Leas-Chathaoirleach's refusal in ruling it out of order and the Leader's offer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I would like to put it on record that it is absolutely outrageous that the Tánaiste-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: -----who was the Tánaiste last week and who is the Tánaiste today, and who is the lady who drafted the memo in Cabinet last week-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: -----and who is still a member of the Cabinet today, cannot come to this House and address-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: -----the House to tell us exactly what happened regarding the appointment of Máire Whelan.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: It is absolutely outrageous.
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I do not know what type of point Senator Devine is trying to make.
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I sat on the council and my views on the eighth amendment are very clear. My colleagues in Fianna Fáil and I all have differing views.
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: To what was Senator Devine referring?
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: What exactly is Senator Devine inferring?
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: What was Senator Devine inferring when she said we were trying to slip away?
- Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: Members of my party all have different views. We are a broad church and everyone is welcome to have whatever opinion they like. Unfortunately we will not be supporting the amendment. We will be supporting the Government on this amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I welcome the establishment of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and hope its work can take place as soon as possible. I wish to raise two issues, the first of which relates to the maternity services group which was charged with developing a maternity strategy for 2016. It has met only once in the past 18 months. It was set up by the Taoiseach-in-waiting,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I wish to raise the pending retail IPO of AIB. It is the view of the Fianna Fáil group that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, should press the EU for a relaxation of the fiscal rules to allow the proceeds from the sale of the stake in AIB to be used for capital investment. Not a day goes by in this Chamber when one of us does not raise the issue of homelessness, substandard maternity and...
- Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (31 May 2017)
Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister for attending the House and for her dedication to the Bill over the course of this Seanad term. I thank also the Women's Council, Women's Aid, Barnardos and Safe Ireland in particular for aiding the Fianna Fáil group in tabling some of its amendments. As many of my colleagues have pointed out, those groups have done a good deal of the hard work on the Bill for...