Results 161-180 of 1,467 for speaker:Geraldine Feeney
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and thank her for giving the House so much of her time. I am also delighted to welcome the Bill which is a very workable measure. It reminds me of what happened in my last term in the Seanad when the Minister promised reforming measures in the pharmaceutical sector. This is a start. This is not a political point, but there is...
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: That is called double-jobbing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Keaveney's call for a debate early in the next session on the banning of sunbeds. In recent days we have all become aware that there is about to be a public debate on the slapping of children by their parents as a form of correction, but we should really focus on and debate the use of sunbeds by children. There are parents of girls as young as seven and eight years who...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: He has a better chance than Fine Gael's man.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: A jockey is going nowhere without a whip.
- Seanad: Committee on Procedure and Privileges: Motion (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: It was in Members' pigeonholes last night.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010: Second Stage (23 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Government Chief Whip has indicated he does not object to Senator Buttimer speaking out of turn.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010: Second Stage (23 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: That is not what happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Boyle's call for a debate on mental health, concentrating in particular on the area of detention. Senator Boyle's story of a 26 year old girl who has been in a mental institution for the past five years because a person believes if she is not so confined she will be promiscuous beggars belief. I recall the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, saying last week...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: What about the Fine Gael manifesto?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: There is no question of lecturing.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Fine Gael is falling apart. That is all that is wrong with it.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: Like Enda.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: I thank Senator Keaveney for sharing time. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, and thank him for being with us. It is a little boisterous and lively but he is used to that kind of debate. I am delighted to speak to the amendment expressing confidence in the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen. I hail from the same neck of the woods. Unlike Senator Phelan, I know the Taoiseach well. For...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: ââand we will wish Deputy Kenny well in his vote of no confidence. It is something of an own goal on behalf of the Opposition when they table a motion like this. It is a damp squib tabling a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach when their own party is in such disarray. An election in the morning â they all are shouting for it â would be the last thing they would need because...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Senator has no confidence in Deputy Enda Kenny.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: We are not interrupting the Senator.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Geraldine Feeney: The Minister of State is listening to her.