Results 1,921-1,940 of 2,054 for speaker:Máire Devine
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: We were not asked.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: We would not touch Fine Gael with a barge pole.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: You cannot let him get away with that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: You are very interested in Sinn Féin today. A lot of you are, actually.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Do not shake your finger at me and lecture me, please. I would rather you not do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Yes, but I did not do this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: The Taoiseach is very fond of that. Do not copy him, please.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Sorry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: We did not do that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: On a point of order, the Leader is saying that we are double speaking. That is untrue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Tiresome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: It is tiresome.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Well done.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: It seems this House should go into a formal group hug, although I am completely opposed to that, Grinch that I can sometimes be. We should never forget how long the struggle by trade unions and workers has taken to get this legislation.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I thank colleagues in the Labour Party for attempting to re-establish the principles of Connolly. It is a great pity that the cause of labour comes a bit too late. They sat in government for five years and should have used their influence at the Cabinet table with colleagues in Fine Gael to get this Bill for workers through much more swiftly. Why was it not done? It was not done because...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Workers own this country - not businesses, not multinational corporations nor TTIP or CETA but the people - and they deserve decent pay. Fine Gael acted with arrogance in the last Government but its strength has been diminished and it now has to answer to its masters, Fianna Fáil. The Labour Party compromised itself and was unable to act against the might of Fine Gael. It watched...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: It concentrates on what will increase its support in the polls.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: It appears that the House will support this Labour Party Bill but we are thinking of the workers sitting at home wondering whether they will make the cut in tomorrow's job market, whether they will be hired if they get a shovel or how they will deal with their child care requirements. I do not understand why there was a problem getting this through but we are where we are. The Bill was...
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: That is a bit insulting.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: They were zero-hour contract jobs.