Results 161-180 of 257 for long speaker:Michael McNamara

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: Next is Sinn Féin. For how long is Deputy Doherty speaking?

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...in this State. I am not suggesting that the Minister's Government is the first to have genuflected before the altar of the beef barons; it is just the latest Government to do so. There is a long history of tribunals and abuses of power by that sector. That will continue for a long period. This is simply emblematic of it. We have regulations in place. We have strict separation of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: How long are you speaking for?

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...to put those individual members in. It is a power I would not feel comfortable having. I would not want to determine whether it is reasonable that somebody I meet should be out of his or her home. How long does the Minister think it is feasible to continue with these penal provisions? There are penal provisions in the regulations which are quite unusual, but which may be necessary or...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: .... It is almost impossible. It is far more expensive than what Deputy O'Donohoe proposes which would be to leave the front facade, knocking the rest down and rebuild them. There could be a big long architectural discussion of whether it is the same building after one does that, but would the Minister consider a pilot project, preferably in a town in Clare and unfortunately there are many...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...Comhairle. I will not let this opportunity pass without congratulating you, a Cheann Comhairle. However, we must devise mechanisms by which, whoever is the Government and we know it will take a long time to form a Government, it is not a winner-takes-all scenario and the Government can be held to account not only by the Opposition but also by its backbenchers. I have plenty of...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Michael McNamara: .... The Tánaiste has introduced a number of schemes that are about getting people back to work, including the Pathways to Work scheme and the back to work family dividend, to ensure there are no longer poverty traps that keep people dependent on social protection. In addition, she has introduced a JobsPlus employer initiative and a start-your-own-business scheme, both of which...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Michael McNamara: ...back to the Beveridge report that came out immediately after the Second World War, its objective was to do away with the five great evils, namely, squalor, ignorance, want, disease and idleness. For a long time, the social welfare system in this country - the Twenty-six Counties, as Sinn Féin would refer to it - has been about buying off a group of people. It has not been about...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (18 Nov 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...of HSE funding of the service but owing to a lack of doctors practising as GPs in the area. Many of the GPs currently working in the area are elderly and are, understandably, less inclined to work long hours. Very few of the GPs coming on stream these days are going into rural practices across County Clare. Doctors and graduates of medicine in Ireland generally earn a lot of money....

Planning and Development (Taking in Charge of Estates) Bill 2015: First Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...or signed by the residents to have an estate which is not properly complete taken in charge, but this can only happen seven years after the planning permission has elapsed. Seven years is a very long time to pay the local property charge and get nothing back. Another obstacle is that local authorities which are not water services authorities cannot take the water mains and sewerage...

Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...body, for the registration of a member named in the application who is aged 18 years or more.”.”. The amendment relates to the practicalities of getting married, not what is and is not constitutional. There is a long waiting list to get married for heterosexual couples, who are the only ones who can get married. It is difficult to get a place, and no matter how long one...

Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...recognising a civil partnership is an attack on the institution of marriage, then recognising it for six months is still an attack. The Constitution does not say, "We will protect the institution of marriage from attacks lasting longer than six months". It is about attacks, full stop. I question the logic of the Bill in that regard. I really question why it is an attack on marriage to...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...heard. The Minister is right when she says that civil partnership is a marriage-like institution. I do not necessarily know why it has to be a marriage-like institution. I do not know why the long-standing consanguinity impediments to marriage in Judeo-Christian traditions and Roman law, which predated marriage as a Christian institution, were introduced into civil partnership. I...

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...in it and the campaign. The indication is that we have moved very much towards an inclusive Ireland and an inclusive republic. For many people, especially those who have been campaigning for a long time for this issue as well as those who have been campaigning more recently, the vote was indicative of a tolerant Ireland and a desire by the citizenry to express tolerance and accommodate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015)

Michael McNamara: .... Technically it is not planning permission for forestry, it is a permit, which acts in a somewhat similar way. Forestry is just another crop, albeit one for which one needs a permit because it is long-term and has a particular environmental impact. Were the witnesses told specifically that not being able to plant forest would be covered and that they would be entitled to compensation?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...old, which is not unusual to find at farmers' meetings across Ireland. Deputy Ó Cuív said that many farmers will not be able to comply with all these technicalities. They have been farming a long time, they are heading towards retirement and they are not interested in this. That came through at those meetings and although there were a few young farmers there who were...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...with which it is being moved. I understand that market takeovers require movement but, ultimately, the permission of the House is required for the Minister to dispose of the shares. We are a long way off that yet. We are at least six months if not a year off that. I do not know why, therefore, we are giving a carte blancheat this stage. Nevertheless, I welcome the contribution the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Michael McNamara: .... I thank Mr. Moscovici for his attendance and for going through the country-specific recommendations with regard to Ireland. Does the Commissioner think it is unusual that it has taken so long to implement reform to the legal services in Ireland, given this is a matter that has been flagged for so long? Does he have thoughts on the delay? Second, in the bailout memoranda, it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Report on Developments in EU: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (12 May 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...lorry to buy four. It is driving smaller marts out of business, or is at least threatening their business. The difficulty in obtaining licences for boats to carry live exports out of Ireland has long been a bugbear of mine. I have had meetings with officials in the Department who talk about the importance of animal welfare, particularly for our reputation. The animal welfare lobby is...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (6 May 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...had accidents. The service is indispensable to their progress and their ability to leave acute hospitals and return to their homes. The patients have been dispersed to other wards and are now in with long stay patients and people who are in receipt of respite care. It is having an impact across the hospital. The fact that it is closed at present is unacceptable, as are the nature and...