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Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Would it kill the Deputy to say my name?

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: How sweet of the Deputy.

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Thirteen?

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I will speak for ten minutes. The next speaker is Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl but I do not know how the time is divided after that.

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Acting Chairman. I am very happy to speak on this motion. I praise and thank the Labour Party and Sinn Féin for tabling it. In so doing, I pay tribute to Deputy Brendan Howlin, Senator Alex White, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and the Fine Gael members. However, I particularly wish to mention those I named because they laboured long and hard on the committee. I want to give...

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Festina lente could be the maxim to which they operate. It is not the time to hasten slowly; however good the template might be for other occasions, it is not appropriate to this issue. The opposite to this might be carpe diem, seize the day, and we should use this as inspiration for our actions. The Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, was very careful to point out the intervention which has...

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: The Government cannot give a date while it is still examining the matter. I am heartened by soundings taken from Ministers whom I have been harassing on the matter. I understand much thought is going into it. I ask the Government to arrange this year for a referendum on children's rights.

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Children should be seen and heard, and they should assume their rightful place in society.

European Globalisation Fund (18 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for permission to bring this matter to the floor of the House. This matter concerns employees of Alienware, which is in Athlone. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, a fact I and the employees have ascertained. I understand a member of the Acting Chairman's party who is an MEP has been very helpful with regard to the European globalisation fund. A...

Written Answers — Peat Silt Deposits: Peat Silt Deposits (18 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to an incident at farmland (details supplied) outside Athlone, County Westmeath, on which deposits of peat silt were deposited. [20482/10]

Care of the Elderly (13 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: As this matter affects older people, in the main, I am glad that the Minister of State with responsibility for older people, Deputy Áine Brady, is present as I raise this question this evening. Loughloe House has been used as a residence for over 30 years. It currently deals with 26 residents. I suppose its numbers have varied over the years. That is, by and large, the amount of...

Care of the Elderly (13 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: How many?

Social Welfare Benefits (13 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: The Deputy was very bold.

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Hear, hear.

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I am glad to add my piece to what I call an intensely bogus debate.

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I do not wish to be a member of the e-mail address of prurience.ie. I never did and I never will. Prurience is an ugly characteristic that will extend from financial matters to sexual matters or to whatever one wishes. However, it is not a characteristic towards which I aspire, nor ever I did. It is an ugly thing in which to be involved. Equally, I believe this debate to be so bogus that...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: If Deputy Kenny and Deputy Gilmore have nothing better to do with their Dáil time than to orchestrate a debate for three hours or whatever-----

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: -----in respect of two people, the whole thing is quite mad. I am surprised that some Members of the Labour Party, whom I regard with friendship, would go along with this bogus debate. First, I refer to the element of the Opposition that is particularly noticeable at local level on local councils or county councils. They never see any good in anything. They are "appalled" - I use the word...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: Do they ever approve of anything? I refer to the financial sphere, in which Ireland is holding its own at present. It is not as though one sets out to get bullet points, red marks, five stars or whatever one gets for being a good girl or a good boy. Do such individuals ever say they are glad that what the Government has tried to do in this regard has been recognised? No, they are appalled...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Mary O'Rourke: I hope junior Members of this House will allow older Members to have their say.