Hayes, BrianThursday, 8 December 2005 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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We must all place on record our thanks to Senators Minihan and White in connection with the budget announcement on child care yesterday.
Without the Senators’ sterling work on this issue, the Government may well have chosen to abandon children altogether in the budget.
Government Senators are in great form this morning. They must know something is coming down the tracks. I wish to make a further comment on Senator White.
As my four year old said his prayers last night, Senator White’s name was mentioned in dispatches. Such is her status among four year old children. I had to remind my son about certain friends the Sen...
Does the Leader agree that the decision by the Government parties, in their ninth year in office, to introduce a five-year child care programme is belatedly welcome? Does she also agree that it is imp...
On another issue, as I understand it, the chief sponsor of an association in Ireland called the Centre for Public Inquiry, has decided not to fund the centre’s work in future. I welcome that decision....
Go on.
It is nearly worthwhile having children now.
After nine years.
Nine years is a generation of children.
I thank the Senator. It trips off the tongue.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Exactly.
Statute Law Revision (Pre-1922) Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages.
It is over a year since the Minister of State was in the House on this matter, although the initial Bill was published some time before that, and we welcome him back. As he said, the first amendment r...
If they had all been under six years of age she would have been a real winner.
That is a sensitive part of the Senator’s history.
The Blessed Sacrament was still part of the Church of England.
The House of Lords Precedence Act of 1539 concerned seating arrangements in the House of Lords and the position of Thomas Cromwell. Would the Leader consider introducing the same kind of strategic sea...
I apologise for mixing it up with the Interpretation Bill 2000.
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