Results 61-80 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Balderdash.(Interruptions).
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Revolution.
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: I welcome this opportunity to contribute on the Government amendment. I want to use my time to speak against the United Left Alliance's motion. In recent weeks, many of my Labour colleagues and I have made our position on JLC rates clear. It is our firm belief that this is an urgent matter of concern for the Government. No doubt it is a topic that deserves robust debate in the Chamber,...
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: They do not censor the truth. They table a motion that accuses a breach of solidarity with low-paid workers. They fell in that solidarity at the first hurdle when they voted against the restoration of the minimum rates of pay. Restoring those rates puts â¬40 back into the pockets of working people.
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: That â¬40 affects whether a child can see a doctor or a parent has shopping money to feed his or her children. The Deputies voted against the workers last week.
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Leaving that aside, the debate must be on the principle, not on the personalities spoofing about workers. I have no interest in attacking anyone for the sake of it. To single out people in this debate is a new low in this Chamber. We must engage with the reality on the ground. People throughout the country are struggling to put food on their tables. There is no doubt about that. That is...
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: How arrogant of Deputy Collins.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)
Colm Keaveney: We might be in a worse situation.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: I know one.
- Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: I thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, for the opportunity to speak on this matter. As always, it is a great honour to speak in the House. Before getting to my primary point, however, what really galled me today was to see the Fianna Fáil backbenchers laughing at the notion that they had handed over a destroyed economy to the new Government and the people of Ireland. There is nothing less...
- Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: How dare you. That is rubbish. It is scandalous. Deputy Boyd Barrett should go away with his rhetoric.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Deputy Finian McGrath was Bertie's boy.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Deputy McGrath was Mary Harney's boy.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: It is Deputy Ross's system.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: That is what he wants.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: They made a bad deal.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: What is the Deputy's idea? It is their bailout.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: Those Brits.
- Order of Business (20 Jul 2011)
Colm Keaveney: He is going tomorrow anyway.