Results 11,941-11,960 of 12,292 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I have not been in the Chamber for a long time as I was elected at the end of February 2016. However, even I know that a Private Members' motion will not change the mind of the Minister. It will certainly raise awareness, which is what I am doing today, along with other Deputies. It may influence the Government. I brought a Private Members' motion through the House in regard to dementia...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I ask the Minister of State not to interrupt me. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, for her answer. My petition today does not concern waiting lists, to which the reply referred. Rather, it refers to 24-7 cardiology cover and the implementation of the Higgins report which clearly states, on page 87, that Waterford Regional Hospital will continue to provide cardiology...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Yet the Minister of State chose to attack me.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: The Minister of State has threatened-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: The Minister of State is passing the buck.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: He is passing the buck.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Stop passing the buck.
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and his office for facilitating this Topical Issue, which represents cross-party and cross-county support. Fourteen of the 19 Deputies in the south-east are supporting this petition and I thank my colleagues for doing so. As the Minister of State is aware, there is currently no provision for cardiology cover in Waterford and the south east after 5 p.m....
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will bring a memorandum to Government on the review of the community employment programme; when he will publish same, as outlined by him in October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2115/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (18 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a meeting will be scheduled in view of the fact that a chairperson has been appointed to the high-level community and voluntary forum and it has not met since April 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2104/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Apologies have been received from Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly and Senator Gerald Nash. At our meeting on 8 November 2016 it was agreed that three EU proposals - COM (2016) 443, COM (2016) 444 and COM (2016) 470 - concerning the comprehensive economic and trade agreement warranted further scrutiny and that the committee would begin its consideration with a briefing by officials of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Kelly for his statement. I now propose to take questions from committee members, so perhaps each member would ask three questions initially, and if anybody would like to come in again at the end, I will allow that, in the interest of trying to give everyone a fair chance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: We can discuss all that in private session, if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Tariff free?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Before I call Deputy Smith, I ask those with mobile phones to turn them off or to enable flight mode on them. I did not make such a request at the beginning of the meeting, but I am doing so now because I have been informed that a little interference seems to be coming from somewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: Would the Deputy like Mr. Kelly to respond to the questions she has already asked before she asks any more questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: There is quite a lot in the questions the Deputy has already asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: We can discuss the Deputy's proposal in private session. We invited the Department's officials to attend here today to discuss the three COM proposals that we, as a committee, must deal with. We will discuss the work programme for the rest of the year in private session, which is when the Deputy will have an opportunity to discuss her proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I will move on because we still have three members indicating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Mary Butler: I call Senator Higgins and thank her for attending today. She is more than welcome.