Results 521-540 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: How is Deputy Ray Butler's driving?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Just deal with the questions on vulnerable children. The Government botched the referendum.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: There is an opportunity to deal with the substantive question this morning. I ask for a date for when the Government will cease the admission of children to adult wards. Will the Tánaiste guarantee the welfare of children with respect to child protection? That is the key question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Government mishandled it. The Tánaiste should deal with the question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: We do.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Can the Tánaiste give a date?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: On its report card the Government gets a B minus.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Tánaiste needs to read it. The position is getting progressively worse.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Is the Tánaiste going to give a date?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: If the Tánaiste wanted to be honest, she would answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I will cast the Tánaiste's mind back to November 2012, when the people of this country voted in a referendum to amend the Constitution to provide for children's rights. She will remember from some of the rhetoric and Government spin at the time that children were to be front and centre in all public policy. Unfortunately, the actions of the Government in the meantime can be said to...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Give us a date.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Speaking as the father of three children, the Tánaiste has become a cold-hearted technocrat. Her response was appalling. I simply asked her when the Government would cease the practice of admitting vulnerable children to adult wards. She will be aware of high-profile reports last week of inappropriate relationships between staff and service users. Will the Tánaiste give a date?...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Minus the group water schemes.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Taoiseach should read the ESRI report.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: They are cheaper than Irish Water.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the measures proposed in the referendum. There can be little reasoned or objective opposition to it except to wonder why we did not reduce it to 18 years. The Government has taken the maxim from Animal Farmthat all animals are equal but some are more equal than others as an instruction rather than an ironic statement. The Government is very good at singling out young people when...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I refer to the gusto with which the Government attacked core rates of social protection payments for vulnerable people. I look across the Chamber at the party that claims as its core principle the issue of equality. What chance does an 18 or 19 year old have to run for the Presidency of the country if they receive €100 per week, having had social protection payments pulled off them...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Stalinism.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that has been allocated by her Department to the Polska Éire Festival; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12258/15]