Results 901-920 of 935 for speaker:Mary Moran
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: Figures have been bandied about of costs of up to â¬12,000-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: Figures have been bandied about of up to â¬12,000 to have work carried out on septic tanks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: I would like to remind the Senators on the other side of the House that it was Fianna Fáil which introduced this in 2009.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: It was in the last programme for Government. Elderly people were being told that money was being taken out of their social welfare payments.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: I am asking the Leader to call on the Minister to come in here and address the issue of scaremongering.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)
Mary Moran: Several press releases and letters to newspapers have raised these issues and I sincerely ask that the Minister come into the House, address these issues and put them to bed once and for all.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements, Questions and Answers (27 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: Last week there were 58.
- Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, to the Seanad to address this Adjournment matter. I also welcome and pay tribute to Ms Karen Dubsky and members of Coastwatch who supplied me with background to this issue. Regarding the recent opening of shellfish harvesting in Dundalk Bay, a Natura 2000 site, can the Minister of State provide detail on any quality issues encountered in...
- Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. Will the Minister of State ask the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to draft a new policy of inshore shellfish harvesting? The Dutch and Spanish have led the way in this area and this should be prioritised for protected sites such as that in Dundalk Bay. Will the Minister consider inviting representatives of the Dutch and Spanish Governments...
- Seanad: Inshore Fisheries (25 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: Will the Minister give a clear public view of the statistics, etc.?
- Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: I congratulate the Independent Group for bringing this extremely important motion forward. The Labour Party fully supports it. I also wish to thank those in the public arena who yesterday gave an excellent presentation in the AV room. As a parent of teenage children and an educator for over 20 years, several things were highlighted of which I was not aware. I must have been very naive to...
- Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)
Mary Moran: I acknowledge how well this issue has been highlighted and the telephone calls to Senators' offices to remind them. I congratulate all concerned on their excellent work. This motion sets out the context of human trafficking for sexual purposes, implying it is one of the most violent and horrific crimes against humanity. The trafficking of women and young girls for the purpose of sexual...
- Seanad: Company Closures: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I offer my sympathy to the employees of TalkTalk and all the families and workers that have experienced the terrible heartbreak of redundancy. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, will be familiar with the devastating blow to my own area of Dundalk with the announcement that 100 jobs are to be lost in the Vodafone call centre in the town. From being one of the most industrialised towns in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I will make two points. On Friday I attended a seminar on suicide awareness organised in Leinster House. I pay tribute to the people who organised this comprehensive and very well run event intended to raise awareness of suicide and heighten our ability to detect it. The course is very well worth taking. I call on the Minister for Health to come to the House for a debate on the continuing...
- Seanad: Arts Plan: Statements (21 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I would welcome a further debate as I have been anxious to speak since the beginning of this one. I am a former music teacher in a secondary school and I taught for almost 30 years. I also ask for music to be promoted, particularly, in Irish schools. If there is a cut to be made in a school today, music is the first to go. With the introduction of extra subjects some years ago to the...
- Seanad: Arts Plan: Statements (21 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: Such an initiative combined children with various intelligence quotients and family backgrounds. Everybody was brought together to perform on a national stage.
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: May I share time equally with Senator Bacik?
- Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Quinn, back to the House and I wish him well in the new term. I also welcome the Bill and am delighted to hear that it is learner focused. The Minister must be commended on his achievements to date in his role. The learner should always be the focus. I welcome the amalgamation of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, NQAI, HETAC, FETAC and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I too would like to welcome my colleagues back to the House and wish everyone well for the forthcoming term. It is worth noting how serious the current Government is and that we have come back two weeks earlier than normal. We are also forgoing our mid-term break and working much closer to Christmas than the previous Government insisted on. It highlights how serious we are.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)
Mary Moran: I congratulate the 56,930 junior certificate students who received their results today. As a mother and former teacher I understand the anxiety felt by the students and parents in anticipation of the results. It is great to see more students taking project maths, the schools which have piloted it at higher level, more students obtaining honours at higher level in it and the overall increase...