Results 19,041-19,060 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The matter was discussed at Cabinet yesterday. It is a mammoth Bill.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The family law Bill and DNA database Bill will be published this year. It is not possible to say when the enforcement of fines Bill will be published.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I will be publishing a nursing home Bill in the next few days. I changed the thresholds recently and have discussed the matter with the HSE to ensure consistency across the country. I hope it will happy quickly.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The new nursing home legislation that will be published in the next few days will give me powers to change regulations.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: In some parts of the country, the enhanced subvention is not paid, that is the issue. The rates for low, medium and high dependency——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The market in some places makes it more expensive but there will be consistency.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The legislation is due in 2006. The Minister has appointed consultants to advise him on the deficit around the break up of the three airports.

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Lourdes Hospital inquiry is a body blow to us all. It is painful to read, it is hard to believe and it is shameful and distressing. It is more akin to a novel set in the dark early part of the last century than the story of the enlightened, successful, confident country we live in. To the women who were the victims, this report is their story. It is the story of how the health system...

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Yes.

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: That was in the past. I assure the Deputy that is not going on now.

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy is wrong. There was the Health and Social Care Professionals Bill and the Irish Medicines Board legislation, among others.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: If Deputy Joe Higgins and people who share his policies were in power not many people would be able to afford even the sandwich.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: We should be proud of the record of this country in recent years. Only by supporting enterprise can one create the kind of environment that has generated unprecedented prosperity, while I acknowledge that there are many challenges and difficulties. Like many Members of this House and other houses around the democratic world, people engage in honest fundraising to support political activity.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The taxpayers should not have to pay all the bills for political campaigns.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 10a, Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: instruction to committee; No. 15, statements on report of the Lourdes hospital inquiry; and No. 10b, all-party motion supporting a full inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, to be taken at 6.30 p.m. and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No....

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: We are talking about three technical amendments, two of which were identified on Second Stage. I accept what has been said that the third amendment was not so identified. It relates to the Aer Lingus share ownership trust. If the Minister had been aware of it on Second Stage, he would have brought it to the attention of the House, but the committee will have an opportunity to discuss it. I do...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I was happy to attend an event this morning for International Women's Day with the Deputy's party representative, Deputy Olivia Mitchell, at which the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform officiated. Women in Ireland have made enormous strides over many years — certainly since I became a Member of this House — but clearly there are deficiencies and gaps in many respects. In the...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: When I spoke with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform this morning he said he hoped to have the amendments before the Cabinet on Tuesday week and that they would come before the House immediately afterwards.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: No.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: We have appropriate legislation. The Taoiseach was talking about a time when, on average, people served seven years for murder.