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- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I actually thought that up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I will withdraw that remark.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: No, I am sorry. I apologise. If I offended the Cathaoirleach, I am very sorry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Last evening, Senator Buttimer and I raised on the Adjournment an issue that has been highlighted by the Carers Association. We called on the Minister for Health and Children to implement the association's cost-neutral proposals, but our argument was rejected out of hand. As Senator Donohoe has said, representatives of the association will protest outside Leinster House later today because...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Carers' Allowance. (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I thank Senator Buttimer for sharing time. I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to highlight this issue because of the fear and the devastating impact that would ensue if there were to be cuts to carers' payments in the imminent budget. As Senator Buttimer has said, a total of â¬2.5 million has already been saved to the State every year by these people being allowed to care for their...
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Eircom comes to mind.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: NIMBY.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I take the Minister of State's last comments. While I assume he meant them to be a great support to the next Government, I did not intend to start bickering when I began my contribution. However, the tone of the Minister of State's and Senator Boyle's comments have been less than helpful. Whether the motion has some points that are in the Government programme does not matter. The bottom...
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: The Minister of State did not take the good from what we are saying and did not accept it in the spirit in which it was delivered, which I regret. As I am spokesman on social and family affairs, I wish to refer again to unemployment. While Senator McCarthy spoke about Dunmanway, Athlone is no different, and I am sure the Minister of State's area is no different either. The dole queues are...
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Senator Boyle's Government is doing such a great job of everything.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: The Senator should take the log out of his own eye.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: People in glasshousesââ
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Let us hear it.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: These are the basics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Yesterday I used my time well because the House was not sitting, through no fault of mine. I visited a manufacturing facility in Athlone where the workforce has reduced from 193 to 143. Staff sometimes work three days a week but company management is doing everything in its power to retain jobs. It is important to the managing director to keep jobs. Each lost job costs the Exchequer...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: One would think Senator Mary White was an Opposition Member the way she speaks out of both sides of her mouth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I love what she said and I agree with much of it but she repeatedly votes against the Opposition. I ask the Leader to resolve this issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I second No. 15 on the Order Paper.
- Seanad: Telecommunications Services: Motion (25 Mar 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State. This motion is self-congratulatory. Senator Quinn said it is a bit complacent and Senator Ross said it is bland, but I believe it constitutes an arrogant proverbial pat on the back for the Government. It "welcomes the various Government interventions in broadband which have led to improved choice, quality and prices of services and the national broadband...