Results 121-140 of 1,158 for speaker:Fiona O'Malley

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: ——or, indeed, lauding it. Deputies should be careful about that because it is our national health service to which we are doing damage.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: It is the patients we are dishonouring by doing it.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Most importantly, it is the health workers, the people who devote themselves to the care of people, to whom we are doing a disservice.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: The patient experience we are most focusing on in the debate is that of accident and emergency. While it has been acknowledged by both the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and Professor Drumm that conditions in some accident and emergency departments are unacceptable, both for patients and for staff, the difficulties in accident and emergency are symptomatic of...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I do not find it indefensible.

Electoral Registration Commissioner Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: The most important duty of a citizen to his or her country is to participate in the determination of how and by whom the State is governed. Wars have been fought about the right to vote. It is an enormous regret to me that we take this fundamental right for granted nowadays. It is equally disturbing that we seem to have such a cavalier attitude to the process of preparing for elections. We...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on the introduction of the Bill which will have a swift and easy passage through the Dáil because few could disagree with it. As the Minister outlined, it provides the opportunity to provide a blueprint for great development in all areas of sport, not only physical facilities, but also, importantly, the sciences behind sport. When I was a member of the...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I thank the Minister. We considered where we would be in terms of the games in London onwards. We must examine and prepare. A particularly good aspect of what is proposed under the national sports campus development plans is the recognition that stars and athletes are not born overnight and that medals must be planned for. Facilities must be provided. This is one way to ensure we will have a...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I am grateful to the Technical Group for tabling the motion because it clearly demonstrates that the election is on. Thankfully, the people are being provided with a choice.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: It is a choice between reverting to the protectionist policies of the 1930s, which brought this country to its knees, or exploiting and bringing the reserves we know of to more citizens to provide opportunities.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: The motion was concocted in a fit of enthusiasm because three leaders in Latin America, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Fidel Castro, met at the weekend.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: The Deputies decided that they wanted a bit of it. What the motion fails to recognise is that Ireland does not have the reserves of either Venezuela or Bolivia.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: A Government must be responsible and the Technical Group will never really need to recognise this responsibility.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: A Government must be responsible and operate policies for the real world.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Deputies across the floor might have a fanciful notion that the State can hold the risk that comes with exploitation. Have they examined how much it costs to evaluate our reserves? A reserve is something about which one does not know. One is obliged to drill for it and it costs billions. Day after day and week after week, the Technical group Members come into the Chamber to ask the Government...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: How will this be financed?

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Day after day they ask that Ireland be independent in terms of energy generation and state how important that is.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: How will we ever find or locate any reserves that may exist?

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: The risk involved is high as Ireland's oil exploration success rate has been one in 50.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: However, the worldwide norm is one in ten. Previously, the Opposition Deputies were shouting about Norway. The rate there is one in four and Members should face the geographic realities of our country and the cost of exploitation.