Broughan, Thomas P.Tuesday, 29 June 2004 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Priority Questions - Fishing Industry Development.
Asked the minister: if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the recent European Union agreement on the revised Irish Box and the concerns of fishing industry organisations regarding the baseline figures for fishing efforts ...
I thank the Minister for his reply. Does he agree that the basic framework for fishing effort, agreed last October, is still the baseline from which we are operating? In the case of the north-west, he...
Priority Questions - Telecommunications Services.
Asked the minister: the position with regard to the roll-out of broadband nationally, with specific regard to his Department’s schools broadband action plan and the plan to deliver broadband to homes here; if he has give...
I know the Minister is not easily embarrassed. Anyone who throws his hat in the ring for the leadership of Fianna Fáil, given the groaning reaction of Fianna Fáil backbenchers to his candidature, is c...
It took a long time.
Will the Minister yield?
I have listened to the Minister for two and a half years. This drivel is the reason he will never be leader of the Fianna Fáil Party.
The starting point was zero.
It is a small country.
Other Questions - Telecommunications Services.
Will the Minister expand on his interesting announcement regarding the E-Net contract? What are its terms and conditions? How will it operate in the coming years? The Minister stated a number of month...
Who are eNET?
Other Questions - Water Safety.
I join my colleague in Fine Gael in commending the Minister on bringing forward the legislation at long last. As a water sports enthusiast, he has brought forward some other important measures to deal...
Other Questions - Mobile Telephony.
The Minister made a number of recent statements about concerns that have been raised in this House and in the media concerning the transmission of pornography on 3G telephones, particularly to childre...
Other Questions - Electricity Generation.
Asked the minister: his views on the implications for energy policy of the recent suggestion from the chairman of the ESB that the company would require a double-digit increase in electricity prices in 2005; the amount o...
Deputies were disappointed that the Minister was not present in the Chamber for the recent debate on Second Stage of the ESB Bill. His presence would have given us an opportunity to discuss with him i...
The likelihood is that when next we meet we will have another Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.
We will never know what Deputy Dermot Ahern felt about the most important part of his portfolio.
Others are too.
Will the Minister tell the CER?
Other Questions - Alternative Energy Projects.
Is the Minister concerned about the pension deficit of €510 million published in the ESB’s recent annual report which, according to accountants, the FRS17 provision may increase to €900 million? Does ...
It is an additional question to the Minister.
The Minister wants to answer it.
Other Questions - Television Subtitling.
I recently met members of the Irish Hard of Hearing Association on behalf of the Labour Party. I was a little shocked and taken aback by their presentation, particularly in regard to the performance o...
The Minister is a politician.
We tried to amend it and we failed.
We tried to amend it but the Minister would not let us.
When?
Other Questions - Irish Language Broadcasting.
At exactly this time last year, the Minister’s progress report on the programme for Government indicated that proposals would shortly be brought forward to establish TG4 as a separate statutory body. ...
The Minister mentioned Comhairle Teilifís na Gaeilge in his reply. Does he intend to establish a separate authority in the independent statutory system or will the broadcasting authority have responsi...
Order of Business.
Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. 23 be agreed.”
Voted No
Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. 25 be agreed.”
Voted No
National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
As the time permitted for this debate has expired I am required to put the following question in accordance with an order of the Dáil of this day: “That the amendments set down by the Minister for the...
Voted No
State Airports Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).
Aer Rianta must have done a good job.
It is the first step towards privatisation.
We only had four hours to debate it.
They have big populations.
The Minister is a vandal who is smashing an Irish multinational company.
Question put.
Voted No
Written Answers - Postal Services.
Asked the minister: the position with regard to restructuring An Post in view of the company’s recent announcement that it recorded operating losses of €43 million in 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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