Results 121-140 of 7,123 for speaker:Mary O'Rourke
- Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Particularly older Members who find it difficult to find their voices.
- Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I would expect that I would be allowed-----
- Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Deputy's day will come too and will it not be lovely to see him squirming?
- Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: To return to the present matter, Deputy Conlon raised a true point that I wish to reiterate. Have Members any respect for one another? Have they any respect for the fact that they all tread on the same path of knocking on people's doors, asking for approval, seeking their vote and being duly elected as vox populi? Do Members have any regard for one another? Members are in grave danger of...
- Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Yes.
- Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (5 May 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Question 407: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the course of action a person (details supplied) can take in order to get information on their future job security. [18006/10]
- Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on children in general. I hope this type of debate will be an ongoing event in Parliament. It is a very good idea. There might not seem to be much interest in the matter but there is, and that interest is only fully realised every time there is a general report on child care or a diocesan report on clerical sex abuse when there is much exclamation and...
- Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Yes, Waterford. The spokespersons will be out thumping the streets in those constituencies. However, I believe it is but a political ploy within the media to seek to link the referendum to by-elections, thus leading people to say that if they do what I have described, they will sign themselves out of work, for instance. The referendum should be held independently, irrespective of the...
- Head Shops. (31 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I congratulate the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Carey, who in another life as a Minister of State had responsibility for drugs. There is great delight that he has been given this remit once again. I met him in Granard last Thursday, when he had a conversation with a woman from Athlone who is heavily involved in this issue. Although head shops are a recent...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I welcome this opportunity to speak. Little did I think in the early days that we would be able to give Dáil Ãireann our final report on the job we were given to do. When we were getting ready for this, I remembered the remarks of Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, chairman of the Law Reform Commission, in 1993 in her capacity as chairman of the Kilkenny incest inquiry. She stated then that...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Somebody told me to go to the bar but that would be very different to what we had been doing. The time used to fly by because our work was intense and consumed all our attention. This report is leaving our hands, having been debated in the Seanad and now the Dáil. We have fulfilled our responsibility to report to both Houses of the Oireachtas. The report will now come before the members...
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: It is written down.
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: And be gone.
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I forgot Deputy Howlin was Minister for Health.
- Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements. (11 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Quo vadis?
- Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (9 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the proposed Animal Health and Welfare Bill; when it is proposed to publish this Bill; and when it is proposed to bring this bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [11243/10]
- Industrial Relations. (3 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: I thank whoever chooses the matters to be discussed on the Adjournment for giving me the opportunity to speak this evening. I tabled this matter because over the weekend I remembered that some time ago the chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Kieran Mulvey - whom I know well; he is a very able person - said, to great fanfare, that he would meet all the heads of the various...
- Industrial Relations. (3 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: He can take it or leave it, he is saying. I hope the work of Kieran Mulvey and his comings and goings with the trade unions have yielded some fruit. I look forward to the Minister of State's reply.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who was refused for domiciliary allowance. [10680/10]
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (2 Mar 2010)
Mary O'Rourke: Question 422: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the sewerage and water priority list will be issued in respect of County Westmeath. [10277/10]