Results 18,701-18,720 of 20,459 for speaker:Frances Fitzgerald
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: I know it is uncomfortable but it was a political charge.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: They are political crimes. It is a political charge.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Senator is sensitive about the amount of damage done to the Irish people.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Senator is sensitive about the damage done to the Irish people.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: I move: That Seanad Ãireann has no confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen. Moving a motion of no confidence in a member of the Government in the Seanad is not a decision I, or Fine Gael, take lightly. Such confidence motions are rare in this House. However, even more rare is the publication of independent reports into a banking crisis which point the finger of blame squarely and...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The two banking reports published in recent weeks shatter the myths, illusions and spin which the Government has tried to force on the people. The words "I am sorry" were slow to come from the Taoiseach with him instead preferring to hide behind another two words, "Lehman Brothers". Now the jury has returned, however, and the independent verdicts are in with a clear result. The reports...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Government was protecting property developers. Somebody had to speak for first-time buyers.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: We needed justice for first-time buyers after the overheating of the property market.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Greens are like that.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: What things?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: Why does the Senator not name them?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The public know all about their reality.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is 75% home grown.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: That is absolute rubbish.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: The times are specified.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: They are still in disarray.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: Look at today's report. They are still in disarray.
- Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: I welcome the Minister to the House. I agree with the Leader's comment about the time she gives to the House and I thank her for that. She listens to the contributions we make and takes up the issues we highlight. She gives a response in so far as she can on the day on the issues we raise. She referred to improved life expectancy as one of the factors that proves we have a better service....
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: Roisin Ingle's first two sentences on the front page of The Irish Times this morning are revealingly chilling and I am sure for many they were overwhelming. Everyone who read them will have been hugely moved by them: At 3.25 p.m. yesterday, with the sun beating down on a packed Guildhall Square in Derry, a pair of hands poked through the metal grille covering the windows high up in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)
Frances Fitzgerald: I welcome the imminent publication of the Saville report on the events of Bloody Sunday. I am sure the Leader will arrange for us to debate it and discuss its findings. I call on him to arrange such a debate as soon as possible. I am sure Senators on all sides of the House are pleased that the Seanad is back in session this week.