Results 12,081-12,100 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: We have come to the end of the question-and-answer session. Perhaps the Minister of State will proceed with his closing remarks.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: We move on to the session on questions. I call Deputy Creed.
- Termination of Ministerial Appointment: Announcement by Taoiseach (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: The Taoiseach was with them.
- Termination of Ministerial Appointment: Announcement by Taoiseach (19 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: The Taoiseach was not playing golf with people from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
- Written Answers — Severe Weather Events: Severe Weather Events (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review the operations of the Government task force dealing with the present weather crisis with a view to providing a national transport strategy for dealing with transport requirements in extreme weather conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2252/11]
- Written Answers — Public Service Agreements: Public Service Agreements (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Transport the manner in which he is implementing the Croke Park agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2253/11]
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: It will be some vote tonight.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: It is rare for three parties to agree absolutely on the course of action to be taken. We are a great country for taking absolute positions about children, whether before or after they are born, when they go to school, when they start secondary school or, as in this case, when they reach the age of majority and the State bears no further responsibility for them. We are enacting this...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: That is semantics. We are talking about a different category or children.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Who determines the need?
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: However, no absolute right to that-----
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: I apologise.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: In reply to the Minister of State, I met a young woman recently who had just come out of care and was reunited with their mother. She assured me her social worker, who was very active with her, was excellent and had been of enormous help to her. The difficulty is that is not always the case and in this Bill we are trying to ensure that is always the experience. The only way that can be...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (13 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures in place to ensure that the use of agency workers, particularly nurses is reduced in 2011; the total amount of money spent on agency nurses in each of the Health Service Executive regions in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1549/11]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (13 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total number of child and adolescent psychiatric beds currently in place; her plans to develop a unit in Limerick as proposed in A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1550/11]
- Water Utilities: Motion (13 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: The Minister of State, Deputy White, promised legislation on gender equality. I ask the Tánaiste, in view of the events of the past number of days, whether it will be compulsory for women to take up golf.
- Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)
Kathleen Lynch: As a woman, does she feel she should take up golf? It is clearly where the power is.