Results 19,881-19,900 of 20,459 for speaker:Frances Fitzgerald
- Seanad: Child Care Services: Statements (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: This pushes the disadvantaged into the poverty trap and encourages the black economy. There is no logic because there is a poverty trap for hard-working families trying to make ends meet. The State should not support a scheme that does that. The other aspects of the problem are that community child care providers experience a continuing decrease in direct funding. This makes it extremely...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is about fiscal policy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is more like 14%.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: One thousand.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: They did not listen to suggestions for budgetary change in recent years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: Exactly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Senator should have said that to her Minister in 2002.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Senator did it in 2002.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: A U-turn.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: I have just come from a meeting that was held in a church that was attended by hundreds of elderly people. They were not there for prayer or mass, they were there to defend their entitlement to a medical card, their basic right to universality, a right the nation gave them seven years ago but that has been taken away from them. It was one of the most uplifting meetings I have attended, in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: Anybody who was at the meeting this morning would be appalled at the situation in which elderly people find themselves, and the fact that they have to congregate outside the gates of Leinster House tomorrow to get their point across to a blunt Government that is not listening and is not responding to what the Irish people want.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is not just the elderly that will be affected, but their families and young people also. The attack on universality is being done without any debate or discussion. It was not part of the election manifesto. Universal health cover for the over 70s was introduced in 2002 to buy an election but it was not part of the election manifesto last year. It was introduced without any discussion...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is a distraction.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It was a Government decision.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is also an extraordinary diversion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: It was a Government decision at the time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: Neither is the Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)
Frances Fitzgerald: On a point of order, Senator Harris should withdraw that remark.