Results 761-780 of 873 for speaker:Averil Power
- Seanad: Human Trafficking (9 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, and regret that the Minister for Justice and Equality was unable to stay. I hope the Minister of State will highlight the issue I raise with the Minister. I propose to share time with Senator Catherine Zappone. I also welcome Ms Geraldine Rowley from Ruhama to the Visitors Gallery. The Minister of State may have seen the "Prime Time"...
- Seanad: Human Trafficking (9 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I would like to thank the Minister of State for filling in for the Minister for Justice and Equality. I agree that a public consultation is very important. It is important to have people informed about this issue before a major change is made. I am not reassured by the statement in the script given to the Minister of State that the Department of Justice and Equality is of the view that our...
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: As I said, Members on all sides appreciate cuts must be made. All of my colleagues made that point in their contributions but those cuts should be fair and strategic. The changes the Government chose to deliver in education failed miserably on both counts. As I said, the Minister acknowledged the Government made mistakes, in particular in regard to DEIS. It is time it undid those mistakes...
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: He did not say why it was not done.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: Okay. Perhaps the Senator believes there are good reasons for not increasing the universal social charge for those earning more than â¬115,000 but I do not. The wealthiest people in this country should pay the most during our current difficulties and those who are most vulnerable should be protected.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: Senator O'Neill's good friend, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, was able to find â¬20 million yesterday for the septic tank registration.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: The children from our most disadvantaged areas deserve the same ingenuity the Minister, Deputy Hogan, was able to bring to the septic tank issue.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: We should look for a sensible way to look after children from the most disadvantaged areas who will be affected for the rest of their lives by these cuts. We should look at this with the same ingenuity I respectfully acknowledged the Minister brought to the septic tank issue.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: The Minister was in the House-----
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: -----for more than 20 hours of debate on septic tanks and during all of that time insisted that the â¬50 had to be paid. Somehow, between when it was last debated in this House and-----
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: -----yesterday, he managed to find â¬20 million. I congratulate the Minister on being able to find a sensible outcome to that issue.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I am not only responding to the last point of order but I am responding to requests made by several-----
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I was responding to requests by Members to explain where we would find the money and why we believe there is a fairer way. That was my answer.
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I genuinely accept that voting against our motion will be difficult for Members opposite and I understand that is why they are shouting at me to divert from the motion and the debate we have had. I appreciate it is difficult for them to go back to their areas to sell this and stand over these cuts. I ask those Members to reflect on the impact the cuts will have, in particular on the most...
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I move: That Seanad Ãireann believes that: â investing in education will be crucial to Ireland's economic recovery; â prioritising resources at children from disadvantaged areas and those with special needs at an early stage is not only imperative from an equality perspective but also has the potential to deliver considerable cost savings to the State in the long-run; â small schools...
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: We agreed with the Minister's overall number in the budget. We put forward other options. We stated â¬40 million could be obtained from increasing the universal social charge for people earning over â¬115,000 but this proposal was not taken up. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government was able to magic up â¬20 million yesterday in the blink of an eye. The...
- Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: The alternative is the dole or emigration for somebody who cannot get a job.
- Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I will take the opportunity to reread the amendment, for the benefit of members of the House. It states: "(11) The Minister may from time to time prescribe the conditions attaching to the employment of an appropriately qualified and registered retired teacher, in circumstances where all reasonable efforts to secure an appropriately qualified registered teacher who is not retired fail." I do...
- Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I second the amendment. Amendment put and declared lost. Government amendment No. 13: In page 9, line 10, to delete "to be" and substitute "who are to be". Amendment agreed to. Government amendment No. 14: In page 9, lines 19 and 20, to delete all words from and including "subsection" in line 19 down to and including "school" in line 20 and substitute the following: "subsection (11) to...
- Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2012)
Averil Power: I will second it for the purposes of debate. I asked the Minister last week to clarify whether an issue arises in this regard. I expressed concern last week about the possibility of the Department telling a school to let a teacher go because he or she does not meet the criteria set out in this Bill. Even though the school would not have made this choice, its board of management would be...