Results 121-140 of 1,212 for speaker:Dara Murphy

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: That is fine. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important Bill. The EU directive on temporary agency workers, which was adopted almost four years ago, has as its objective the protection of such workers. It is important to note that they represent 2% of the workforce in our country, some 35,000 workers, which, by any definition, is a significant number of people. It is...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Government's counter motion to yet another Opposition motion of this type. We are debating one of the most unwelcome realities of the support programme into which we have been forced. The ambition on all sides is that the programme will terminate at the end of 2013, which is less than 24 months away. At a time when the issue of money leaving the...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: The Government has been here before. Were we to believe the Opposition, there was to have been no reduction in interest rates. A significant reduction followed, but the negotiations undertaken by the Government were deemed unworthy of credit. Our success will secure €10 billion in savings for the Exchequer. No matter where one wishes to lay the credit for this reduction, one fact is...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: The proposers of the motion could have put if down last week.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: That is the legacy of the Fianna Fáil Party.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: The Deputy's party signed the deal but its Members intend to vote against the Government amendment tomorrow.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: The legacy of Fianna Fáil.

Inter-Country Adoption: Statements (26 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: Like other Members, I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is clearly a very emotional issue for everyone, but for the families involved, it is an all-consuming and life-determining matter. The Minister clearly has a huge interest in it. I accept Deputy Calleary's point, but it is welcome that the Government has given her a full Ministry in charge of looking after our...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 2012)

Dara Murphy: Question 634: To ask the Minister for Health when proposals allowing medical card holders to use multiple general practitioners to avail of medical services will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5415/12]

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to speak this afternoon on the HSE national service plan. As was the case in 2011, this year will once again provide severe challenges to the Minister, his Department and all of the medical and administrative staff working in the health services in our country. By the end of 2012, a total of €2.5 billion will have been taken out of the health budget over the past...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: Deputy Kelleher never spoke about St. Mary's, before or since.

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: This was more or less the case from the time the HSE was established by Deputy Martin and in all subsequent Governments of which he was a member. Ironically, monitoring - dismissed by Fianna Fáil-led Governments - remains at the heart of the difference between this Minister and his immediate predecessors Cowen, Martin and Harney. He is targeting objectives and monitoring how these targets...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: These include the issuing of GP visiting cards to people with long-term illnesses. This is another step on the planned and monitored march towards free GP care for all, and ultimately the Government's stated objective of universal health insurance. While the Opposition will understandably focus on some perceived and indeed real reductions in services caused by the Government's obligation and...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: Furthermore, under the new targets, 95% of people should not wait for more than six hours for an emergency bed. While the Government agrees that no one should be on a trolley, if anyone believes the disastrous position that pertained in the health system over the past 14 years can be cleaned up and changed in one month, one year or even two years, he or she is seriously delusional. Steady...

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: I appreciate that my time might be brief, due to the interruptions that came from the other side of the House, but I have to reject an allegation that was made by some of the Independent speakers, when they spoke about the children of this country, the young people of this country and the future of this country. I would like to say on my own behalf and on behalf of the Government that every...

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: -----and undo that damage for the young people of this country and the next generation. That is what we will do. The Government and Minister have not made any proposal to close any rural school.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: We will commit to return to our young people this country's independence and sovereignty.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: The Deputies Opposite can play all the political games they want but we will be judged by people in rural areas when we have delivered the country from the mess the Fianna Fáil Party created during 14 years in power.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (2 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a group (details supplied) in County Cork have had their training allowance reduced from €31.80 to €20 per week; the reason they were given such short notice regarding this cut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6048/12]

Family Home Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (3 Feb 2012)

Dara Murphy: Be fair now.