Results 721-740 of 1,750 for speaker:Declan Breathnach
- Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I remind Deputies that they may speak twice on each amendment or group of amendments.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: The Deputy is wasting other people's time. Glaoim ar na Teachtaí Shortall agus Ó hÉallaithe. Tá siad ag roinnt ocht nóiméad.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I ask the Deputy to conclude.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Go raibh maith agat.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: The Deputy is moving into somebody else's time.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Go raibh maith agat.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Thank you.
- Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: There is approximately an hour left and people who go over time are eating into other Deputies' time.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: It is one or the other. They are the Minister's staff.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I am holding the Minister to account.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: So is the Minister.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I welcome the Minister. I have brought this issue of the closure of the social protection office in Dunleer to the floor of the Chamber in order to seek definitive information in respect of the future of the Dunleer clinic. We have heard the words "no ambiguity" and "no misinformation" and, in that context, I want to put forward my understanding of the situation and ask the Minister to...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I sure will.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: The Minister referred to the tone I am using. I am using that tone because there is frustration out there in regard to the massaging of closures, not just in this instance but, as I noted earlier, in regard to the closure of other offices, with the suggestion that this is due to shortage of staff. The reality is that I and other Deputies sought clarification from the Minister. The Minister...
- Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Like Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan and many others in this House, I am around long enough to remember AnCO and I have been involved in both CE and FÁS schemes for many years. I want to clearly put on record that the purpose of setting up limited companies by FÁS at the time was to shift responsibility for the disbursement and accountability of moneys on foot of a "Prime Time"...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Not true.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: The Minister should say what she said on local radio. I will give her the transcript.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: I do.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: My question is about the lack of services in my county over the past fortnight. Many community services have been taken away. In Dundalk, the births, deaths and marriages service has been withdrawn in the town, which is one of the largest in Ireland, and the Dunleer social welfare office has closed. The Minister who is sitting beside the Taoiseach indicated on local radio that this was...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Declan Breathnach: Yes. It relates to a community being denuded of its services. In the programme for Government, we and the Taoiseach committed to providing both economic and social services as the economy improved, but the Government is taking services away from people who require them. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Doherty, clearly said on local radio that it was a...