Results 961-980 of 7,123 for speaker:Mary O'Rourke
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I know all about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: We are brimming with confidence and have the proof of it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I have direct experience of people on boards.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: He was given four.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter of the rights for victims. He stated that it has emerged that the Prison Service does not possess the legal standing to inform victims of perpetrators of abuse that such perpetrators are about to be released and that if such standing could be given to the Prison Service, it would be good. I, too, heard people speaking on the television who had been...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I understand that the Prison Service stated it did not have the legal right to inform victims of people who are in prison who have perpetratedââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: If they say so, no matter what Senator Norris states, they must be right. It is all very well for Senator Norris to say they are wrong,ââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: ââbut he cannot be right in everything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: He cannot be right all of the time. If the Prison Service states it does not have the rights, why is Senator Norris stating they have the rights? Senator Hayes also raised the magnificent spectacle of Croke Park last Saturday. No matter whether one saw it in one's local pub, at home or in Croke Park itself, as Senator Feeney who was lucky enough did, the hairs tingled on the back of one's...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Apart from everything else, it being a magnificent spectacle and the national anthem and all of that, we trounced the English team. I found great delight in that, not from any nationalistic point of view but from a sporting point of view, that we won a great game. With every single person on that team, it was near perfection. It was a team of perfection, in my view, and one just knew they...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Whatever.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: The Senator said that Councillor Farrelly was bringing this forward. I just feel it sounds sensible. Senator Leyden referred to the sacrifice made by Garda Brian Kelleher and fireman Michael Liston. They were in the front line of duty in the service of the State and it is therefore right that their deaths be raised and that we praise them in the House. The Senator also referred to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is No. 1, Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2007 â all Stages, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude no later than 5.30 p.m., with spokespersons having 15 minutes on Second Stage, other Senators ten minutes, the Minister to be called upon to reply no later than ten minutes before the conclusion of Second Stage which will be no...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: The Senator knows where to send it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I hope all who spoke last week will speak up this evening.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Where were they established?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: That was rectified this morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Does Senator Terry refer to primary schools?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes, Leader of the Opposition, asked why legislation was rushed through the House last night and asked me to explain the guillotine. He exercised his beautiful French to make an analogy between me and la guillotine. It fell dead flat, honey.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)
Mary O'Rourke: I know right well what the Senator was talking about.