Results 1,541-1,560 of 1,979 for speaker:Nicky McFadden
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Not when the Senator is commending the Government on its great management.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: That was my suggestion. The Senator was not listening.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: That was my suggestion.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: We can do that.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I begin by denouncing the Government's amendment to this motion because I cannot imagine how it can unashamedly commend itself on the doubling of unemployment and our national debt since it took power 18 months ago. The plain people of Ireland will certainly not thank it for its outrageous pomposity and arrogance. Yesterday, I met in my clinic a building contractor who has been out of work...
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: It seems that the unions are the people the Government wants to negotiate with but there are very good ideas in the Seanad. A fifth of milk is now imported and yet 35 jobs are to be lost in Glanbia. If we could produce and use our own milk, we could stop importing milk from Northern Ireland.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: It is simple.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: There would be more jobs as a result. Young farmers who had part-time work in the construction industry will now be even more dependent on their farms so we should encourage them and start depending on our home-grown industry. I thank the Minister of State for his time and ask him to consider my comments. The Government should provide the leadership the people are hoping for.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I was speaking about initiatives to make farmers competitive.
- Seanad: Economic Issues: Motion (28 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: And other urban areas.
- Seanad: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I wish to share time with Senator Glynn. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to discuss the important matter. While I am concerned about general downgrading of services in the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar, I raise in particular the urgent and grave matter of the downgrading of colposcopy services in the hospital. Women in the midlands deserve to have a colposcopy...
- Seanad: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I have a number of questions. Who made the decision to move colposcopy services from the midlands region? What is the evidence for using 500 new patients as a threshold? I have contrary evidence that the requirement for each practising colposcopist is to see at least 50 new patients, according to information from the United Kingdom. I do not know where the new figure of 500 has come from...
- Seanad: Hospital Services (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I am disappointed the Minister is not here.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: On a point of order, the Cathaoirleach should suspend the sitting.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I wish to comment on the announcement that 73 employees are to be let go by Kildare County Council and on the fact that others throughout the country are also being made redundant. I accept that we will debate this matter tomorrow but I wish to raise it here because yesterday was the third anniversary of the publication of A Vision for Change. I am concerned, in a roundabout way, with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: We have never seen the evidence. It has never been published.
- Seanad: Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2009)
Nicky McFadden: It does not work.