Results 1-20 of 48 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Marie Moloney

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Marie Moloney: ...for the establishment of a committee to set standards for direct provision and an inspectorate to look at direct provision centres to see if the new standards are working. This also gives the children the feeling of inclusion in an agency that would help improve their lives. During its term, the Government has done a lot for the protection of children, such as the Children First...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Safety (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Moloney: ...in the Minister of State's remit and he cannot answer my questions on it, which is why I would have liked the Minister to be here to respond. I want to know why the wall was taken down. Why do we feel we can do nothing about a stretch of roadway which has seen many accidents involving deer? We can protect the animals and their habitat but we cannot protect the people.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...many would not know how to prepare a cooked meal. They may not know how to maintain tidy and clean accommodation nor be able to budget or manage their finances. There are those who on reaching 18 may feel they have had enough of State care and dealing with State agencies and may therefore want to disengage at that stage. If they change their minds six or 12 months later, however, it is...

Seanad: Children First Bill 2015: Committee Stage (23 Sep 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...like to be sent to her room. My granddaughter, who is nearly two, goes to a child minder. I would hate to think that the child minder would slap her - it would absolutely gut me. I wonder why we feel like that, why we feel that somebody else cannot hit a child but a parent can hit or slap their child. Where do we draw the line between reasonable chastisement and what is more physical...

Seanad: Conditions of Work: Motion (8 Jul 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...call from a man who was recently offered a job after many years of searching and applying for positions. This man was thrilled to have secured employment, albeit part-time, and it made him feel 100 ft. tall. However, he now finds he is being given four hours on two days a week and three hours on a third day, that is, 11 hours per week at €10 per hour, which makes €110 per...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...all this and the traumatic experience of losing so many friends in the incident, she is facing life with optimism and has vowed to enjoy life to the full. She said, “Enjoy a good dance and the feeling of grass beneath your feet like it’s the last time because in this crazy world you never know when it might be.” How true and apt that is. I salute her bravery and...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...boot on the other foot. If this was happening the other way around, and the English authorities wanted a young man who was born and raised in Ireland to play for their team, how would Irish people feel if English people were subjecting him to this kind of abuse? We would be up in arms over it. I strongly condemn the abuse that Jack Grealish is receiving. I agree with Senator Darragh...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medical Treatment Complaints (22 Apr 2015)

Marie Moloney: .... At the moment they still await a date for the surgery. His mother has advised me that they have had several appointments cancelled by the hospital and always at very short notice which they feel is grossly unfair. I shall give the Minister a little history about the family because it is important for people to know. The family members have suffered a lot of personal tragedies in...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)

Marie Moloney: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I always feel that when he attends here he takes on board what we say. He has the good trait of listening attentively to what all Senators have to say. The Bill contains some positive proposals which I welcome. On the other hand, there are a number of proposals that I wish to discuss in further detail with the Minister of State. One of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: I apologise, as I will have to leave shortly for a vote. I ask the delegates to bear with me as I am not feeling the best today. It is quite possible that my questions were dealt with while I was out of the committee room, in which case I will read the answers in the transcript. The issue of displacement was touched on before I left the committee room. At a previous Oireachtas committee...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...be monitored. Where does one get the medical history from at the time of adoption? Do we say "Have your parents a medical history?" Are we looking for the grandparents? I know how Senator Power feels because my father was adopted and our medical history on our father's side was never available to us because we never knew about it. To be honest, he was one of the people who did not...

Seanad: Mediation Services: Motion (4 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...know their stuff and give the best service possible while ensuring fairness and equality are paramount. People who use the services of a mediator must have recourse to appeal or complaint if they feel they have not been represented properly or have been unfairly treated due to the fact that a mediator was not fully trained. Without regulation there is no course for complaint. I ask that...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...leader. It is time that Ireland conformed to the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, and removed the legal impediments that hinder recognition of our transgender people. Transgender persons need to feel that they are accepted in schools and the workplace and to enjoy basic citizen's rights. Ireland is the only European country that does not have legal gender recognition...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...what he says and agree that the Department has a responsibility to its clients. Is it not doing unnecessary work? This woman felt harassed. There must be something we can do to alleviate that feeling among people. People who claim illness benefit have paid pay related social insurance, PRSI, for their entitlements. This client was intimidated by the visit to the house when she had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: ...a pension from Ireland based on what he or she paid in Ireland plus what he or she paid in another country, because we have bilateral agreements with America, England and other countries. I feel a pension should be based on the contributions the person paid in this country of, say, €95 or whatever per week. We take into account all the contributions the person has paid for 40...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Marie Moloney: ...new appeals officers and I am sure the Minister of State will update us on what their appointment has done for the appeals system. If an appeal goes straight to the appeals office and the office feels the Department can deal with the case better than it can, the case is sent back for a review which is a much quicker option than an appeal. The problem is a lot of the time the right...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

Marie Moloney: ..., especially when they become adults, have every right to know who their biological father is. Too often we watch programmes or we read about people trying to find their biological mother or father. They feel incomplete until they know who they are and they cannot know this until such time as they know all about their biological parents, mother and father. At least if the name of the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Marie Moloney: ...the first meeting of the special group that was put in place. This matter is in the right hands, pardon the pun. She takes a hands-on approach to disabilities. Members of the deaf community cannot be made to feel like second class citizens. The most recent figures from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, show that more than 92,000 people in Ireland are deaf or have hearing difficulties....

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (19 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: ...sewerage scheme was approved, went to tender, had a contractor appointed and had funding made available, but it was then pulled due to a problem with the contractor. The people of Kilcummin feel absolutely frustrated at this stage. They are being pushed from post to pillar and from Billy to Jack, as they say, and we seem to be getting nowhere. If one speaks to the council, it is a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: ...in workplaces where they should be learning and benefitting in the long term by improving their career prospects. In other countries, more hands-on training and engagement is provided and an intern feels part of the workforce. The attitude of some employers needs to change. The changes to the jobseeker's allowance are part of that change in attitude towards young people. We have moved...