Results 1,921-1,940 of 2,038 for speaker:Máire Devine
- 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.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: What the Minister said was insulting and he is glossing over the issue.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: The Minister of State has not got a clue what he is talking about.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: He did not have manners. This is rubbish. I am deeply hurt.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Finger wagging.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Weak solutions.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Senator Nash knows nothing about me.
- Seanad: Protection of Employment (Uncertain Hours) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I have experience. Senator Nash knows nothing about anybody else.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (15 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I seek clarification.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I am sure everyone was taken aback this morning when he or she saw the ice sculptures on display outside Leinster House. They really brought home the fact that our planet was melting. This morning I also attended a briefing in Buswells Hotel organised by the Stop Climate Chaos group. It was an eye-opener. The format was great in that Deputies and Senators from particular electoral areas...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Given the passion and emotion that Trump caused and the shock we all felt in the pit of our stomach yesterday morning, I echo Senator Ó Ríordáin's view. However, a knee-jerk reaction is not positive. I think he is a bit naive, as is the SDLP leader, in saying we will not cross any threshold there. We need to be involved and we need to make sure we can do the best for this...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Will we get an apology?
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: Call for an apology.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Máire Devine: I thank Senator Colm Burke for bringing this Bill before the House. I wish to respond to a comment made about discharges from hospitals. How callous is the national director of acute hospitals in trying to persuade nurses to forcibly remove patients from their beds, but sin scéal eile for another day? Sinn Féin will support this important legislation which will safeguard and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)
Máire Devine: I hope Senator Neale Richmond, and everybody else, honked their horns when they drove past the teachers who were out on strike this morning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)
Máire Devine: The EU-Canada summit on the toxic Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, was cancelled today as talks in Belgium failed to reach an agreement. An agreement was due to be signed today by the EU and Canada.