Results 12,361-12,380 of 12,596 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy's party had five years.
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Willie O'Dea: What did it do?
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Labour and Fine Gael cut funding.
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Willie O'Dea: That is the answer to everything.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: To become a citizen of Denmark by virtue of birth, a child must have parents who have resided in the state for ten years. The same requirement is in place in Greece. The average period of parental residency throughout the EU is five years whereas we propose only three. There was a time when birth alone allowed a person to claim British citizenship, but the law in this regard was changed...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: It is also a fact that the masters provided the Minister with the figures which he subsequently quoted. Obviously, they took this action because they felt the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform had a central role in solving the problem being experienced by maternity hospitals. Why else would they approach that Minister? Usually, the obvious person to contact about problems in...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: One of the masters said "it is surprising there has not been a major catastrophe within the maternity services as yet".
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Another said in a statement to a newspaper in reference to the increase in births to non-nationals that "the projected number of non-nationals giving birth in Dublin is sufficient to warrant a fourth maternity hospital in the city". I have received numerous complaints from people in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary about similar pressures on maternity services in the mid-west. On 11 April, The...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: In the same edition, The Sunday Times investigated the numerical extent of the problem and stated that what cannot be denied is the number of pregnant asylum seekers turning up at Irish ports and airports.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Of the 3,270 women aged over 16 who applied for asylum last year, 1,893, or 58%, were pregnant. At the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin there were 1,951 births to immigrants last year. Almost 14% came to the hospital between one and ten days before giving birth while about 13% arrived in labour. That strongly indicates that at least 27% of immigrant births, or about 500, were passport tourism...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: No. Therefore, this is the very best case scenario.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: I am entitled to make my contribution.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Durkan will have noticed I am busy. Will he permit me to ignore him some other time?
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: At least ten people are born each week at the Rotunda Hospital alone who have no connection to this country.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: That is a bogus point of order.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: I am speaking from notes.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Ten people are born here each week and becoming Irish and, therefore, EU citizens who have no connection with this country. That is the lowest number in one Dublin hospital each week. It is probable that the real number is a multiple of that.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: Irish citizenship automatically confers EU citizenship. Consequently, new citizens have the right to reside within the EU and their parentsââ
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: I am entitled to my 20 minutes.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)
Willie O'Dea: I do not have a copy of a speech, I am speaking from notes.