Results 721-740 of 2,031 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Thank you.
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le gach duine. It is wonderful to hear the Gaeilge. It is popular in this Seanad because Senator Ó Céidigh uses it on so many occasions he baffles me, but I am getting there. I jotted some notes that occurred to me but they might not necessarily be in order. My first question is for the representatives of Enterprise Ireland and Dr....
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: We have been trying to address the issue of public banking in this Chamber, but we are not getting very far. I want to ask the officials from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation about worker co-operatives, an issue I have raised previously. A significant proportion of GDP in many countries across Europe benefits from worker co-operatives. It accounts for 13% of GDP in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I have to take a deep breath today. The Leader will know that my first speech in the Seanad was for the nurses of Ireland. The Taoiseach yesterday and the Minister for Health today showed they must be badly advised given their most recent decision to cancel Christmas leave for nurses and doctors. It has drawn the ire of health workers and the health unions, including the Irish Nurses and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Maybe the Leader wants to address all these emails and telephone calls that I have got.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I have got letters from nurses in Australia who said they had no chance of coming back.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Excuse me. Dún do bhéal le do thoil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Nurses will not be used as a-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Correction: it was an email. The Leader should use his brain.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: This is to do with the lack of bed capacity and investment. Do Senators know anybody in the system who has not worked 24-7? Many of us gave up our Christmases with our children to go into the hospital. We have almost had our dinners at 6 a.m. to go to the hospital to take care of people, yet we are now told we cannot have Christmas because it is our fault that the system is a failure. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Nobody will come back to this country with that sort of attitude. Leo and Simon are grinches, bad Santas, bad humbugs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Leas-Chathaoirleach should stand up for himself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Come on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: What interpretation and by whom?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: That is disgraceful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: The Taoiseach used them as a political football to cover up the lack of-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: I am sorry, but-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: On what? Why?
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)
Máire Devine: Do not stand there and try to make it up and say I-----