Results 821-840 of 1,760 for speaker:Aideen Hayden
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: In the same way-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: I have a question for the Leader that does not revolve around this matter. I ask that the issue of the U-turn by the Health Service Executive on executive top-up pay be brought forward-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: ----- as a debate with the Minister for Health.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: It is outrageous that legislation was passed preventing-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: -----low-paid civil servants from getting increases while-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: -----HSE executives have had their increases protected.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: Tell that to Senator Crown.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: Are you joking?
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: It is the ultimate irony to hear Fianna Fáil talking about skulduggery and Sinn Féin talking about democracy. The other point I would make is never to let the truth stand in the way of a good story. Let us be clear about what we are appointing Senators to. We are not appointing Senators to a banking inquiry. We are appointing them to a committee of inquiry to set terms of...
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: This may be too legally complex-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: -----for some of the eminent minds on the other side of the House----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: -----but that is the fact of the matter.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: If I may proceed-----
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: Is that a point of order?
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: That proves my point about the level of debate on the other side of this House.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: Wishing no disrespect, that is not a point of order and carries no content of any intellectual nature.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: I have been interrupted. I should be entitled to make my point.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: It may seem unusual to have a two-tiered process where one has one committee setting terms of reference and another committee constituting the banking inquiry, but there is no guarantee that those who are on the committee set up to set out the terms of reference will, in fact, be those on the banking inquiry. Indeed, in response to Senator Barrett, it might be the decision of that committee...
- Seanad: Public Service Management (Transparency of Boards) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I thank Senator Quinn for presenting this Bill. I do not think anyone doubts his bona fides in this matter. Membership of boards generally, whether State boards or otherwise, is becoming a fraught issue. This is the case in particular in the sector with which I am most familiar, the NGO sector, which as Senator O'Brien said, has been rocked...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Aideen Hayden: I welcome the launch today of the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, national rent index, a valuable source of information on what is happening in the rental market. It shows Dublin rents increased by 8.4% in the first three months of this year and that the average rent in Dublin is twice as much as in the rest of the country, €637...