Results 781-800 of 4,073 for speaker:Mary Mitchell O'Connor
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: First, I need to put on the record that this is not about tax; it is about how companies report their financial affairs.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My second point is something I have been waiting a long time to say to Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: He needs to go to Sandyford Industrial Estate and see the thousands of people working there. I bet he has no idea how many people work there.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Approximately 25,000 work there.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Hold on. Approximately 25,000 people work there, many of whom are Deputy Boyd Barrett's constituents, and he comes in here and insults multinationals and foreign direct investment. Every time he does so, he does so in a derogatory tone.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have spent the past year trying to make sure foreign direct investment companies come to our country and into regional and rural areas, which was devastated and about which Deputy Boyd Barrett sometimes has no idea. He does not have a clue about these companies. He talks about jobs. Jobs are for people. These are young people trying to start a life and set up or buy a home and they need...
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: You guys can shake your heads-----
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: -----but 400 people are coming back every week to take up jobs, many of which are in foreign direct investment companies. Deputy Boyd Barrett may not know that there are 130,000 people employed in US foreign direct investment companies-----
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: -----in Ireland. He probably does not know that people who worked-----
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: No, you do not know.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: You do not have a clue, actually.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I wish to make one last point.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Some 50% of people who work in foreign direct investment companies - Deputy Boyd Barrett can sneer because he does not give a hoot about the working man or the working woman, if you ask me. They earn 50%-----
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have the floor. They earn 50% more than people in our other companies.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: That is the second time the Deputy said that.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Thank you.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I move:"That Report Stage be taken now."
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Now.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' Bill, which is intended to establish rights for certain categories of self-employed individuals to be represented by a trade union.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: And so I am.