Results 21-40 of 349 for speaker:Tom Morrissey

Seanad: Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2003)

Tom Morrissey: The Senator is asking to extend the time limit, but surely we should be seeking to reduce the length of time. I am sure the applicant will be in the country and the circumstances for the applicant making an appeal are not going to change. I do not understand why they could not make that appeal within ten days. I doubt the value of increasing the period to two months. I do not understand the...

Seanad: Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2003)

Tom Morrissey: Legal precedent holds that one has seven days to reply from when a letter is sent, not seven days from when one receives a letter. Amendment to amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - MRSA Prevalence in Hospitals. (30 Jan 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister of State. I raised this motion on the Adjournment because I became aware of this problem with MRSA recently when a person I know suffered from it. I understand that it is quite prevalent in hospitals and is an ongoing concern within hospitals countrywide. The source of it is hard to understand, but the recuperating process for patients who get this bug is quite serious....

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: This amendment, like the previous amendment, proposes to extend the length of time to 21 days, which could be four working weeks. Given that we are surely not expecting people to make excuses about Saturdays and Sundays, I take it the Senator means four working weeks. Again, I cannot understand why somebody would have to wait that length of time to furnish an excuse. If the person is invoking...

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I sincerely thank the Minister for the time he has invested in the debate on the Bill and Opposition Members for the amendments they tabled, which allowed the House discuss a broad range of issues. In light of the amendments that have been accepted, the system will be streamlined and not as costly as heretofore.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Hospital Services. (4 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: Prior to the Christmas recess I tabled a similar motion about the conditions obtaining in unit nine of James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown. At that time, I was informed in the reply that a new wing was being built and that unit nine would be accommodated within the new building. We were also told that the Inspector of Mental Hospitals considered unit nine as an inappropriate...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Hospital Services. (4 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I thank the Minister of State. The Seanad adjourned at 5.25 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 5 February 2003.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Courthall Child Psychiatric Unit. (13 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister of State. This is an issue for the Department of Health and Children regarding an eight bed child psychiatric unit in Hollystown. I understand there are some difficulties with its location. When they were dividing up the geographic lands for which the new area health boards would have responsibility some years ago, there was a question mark over whether the unit would...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: Like Eircom shareholders.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I had indicated I wanted to speak.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (26 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I want to make one or two points. I reiterate the comments of Senator Dardis in thanking the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, for staying so long this evening and for giving such a great outline of his activities in the Department. No company, industry or sector in this society could grow at the level at which this Department has been growing – when one looks at the figures mentioned here...

Seanad: Suicide Incidence: Statements. (27 Feb 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for his statement on this sad subject. I offer my sympathy to all families of suicide victims. I am sure everybody in the House has had a relative, friend or family friend who has committed suicide. Research on suicide is as old as the human race, yet it remains inconclusive. We have heard figures for urban, rural and international...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (21 Mar 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I wish to share time with Senator Brady.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (21 Mar 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, and thank him for staying for the duration of the debate. I have listened carefully to the remarks of the Opposition and of the spokespersons for the various anti-war groups. It is time to stand back and take a common sense view. We are not waging war on Iraq. No Irish troops will ever be involved in an attack on Iraq. We are not, despite the...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2003: Second Stage. (27 Mar 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I very much welcome this Bill. I am delighted that the Minister has given us such a comprehensive overview and understanding of the history involved, as well as where we are going. No one in this House would have thought ten, 15 or 20 years ago that we would speaking about this subject today. What we had been speaking about for years was emigration and parents asking where they could find...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Tom Morrissey: Will the Leader make time available for a wide ranging discussion on transport in view of the intervention of the Minister for Finance which came to our attention over the weekend? He believes some of the transport projects and proposals coming before Cabinet are unrealistic. There are many projects which require decisions. We are aware of the impending break-up of CIE. Today permission was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Tom Morrissey: There are many projects which we need to debate with the Minister. I urge the Leader to make time available for such a debate after the recess.

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (1 Apr 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I have used the permit system and seen how it can be abused. There is a huge market in forged permits. I presume the Minister is well aware of that. With such a draconian system in place, employers are already aware that this legislation is serious and that they had better not mess around with it. I welcome the legislation because it will be so strong that people will not contravene it once...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2003)

Tom Morrissey: The only issuing authority for a permit is the Department which issues a permit in the name of the employer. It is unlikely an employer will inadvertently receive a hoax permit. Hoax permits are black and white copies of the original green, stamped form. I have seen them and it is obvious they are photocopies of doctored permits. An employer can only receive a permit if he or she has applied...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (1 Apr 2003)

Tom Morrissey: I wish to be associated with the remarks made about the Minister and his staff in regard to the Bill. I want to record this country's appreciation of the people who come here, their work ethic and the major contribution they make and will continue to make to this economy over the coming years.