Results 1-20 of 109 for going forward speaker:Timmy Dooley

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Timmy Dooley: .... The Taoiseach has addressed it in a glib way. Either we are serious about reforming this House or we are not. With respect, the Minister promised that amending legislation would be brought forward and at the time we agreed with the passage of the Bill in the expectation that amending legislation would be brought forward in the first quarter of the year. We are now into the second...

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Any Member who comes forward tonight with some weasel words to claim this was never the intention should go back and read the review provided by the Minister in September.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 399. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an appointment to assess their deteriorating condition and determine treatment going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/17]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...issue. A Chathaoirligh, you may have noticed from recent media reports that there is an impasse at the University of Limerick whereby the governing authority has failed to select the name put forward for appointment to chancellor, as set out in the legislation. However, while the legislation sets out the procedures to elect a chancellor, it does not seem to set out a strategy in the...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Timmy Dooley: In the not-too-distant past, the Government promised legislation to amalgamate Shannon Development and Shannon Airport. The Taoiseach indicated that the promised legislation would be delivered in this House before the summer recess. We had a difficult situation yesterday whereby the chairperson of the new independent Shannon Airport Authority had to go public and effectively criticise the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Responses to Brexit in Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (26 Apr 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...right about that pathway towards a career rather than just an entry based on whatever misguided views a person had as he or she approached his or her leaving certificate. Perhaps it is a good job for all of us that the title "politician" is not on the CAO form. Overall, from a whole-of-government perspective, is the Minister content that enough work is done to effectively look at the...

Seanad: Ambulance Service. (11 Oct 2005)

Timmy Dooley: ...to ensure the funding is put in place without delay. As he stated, it is a matter of moving to the next stage in terms of upgrading. We are happy to know the funding has been included in the plan going forward, but it is important to move to the next stage. I am sure the Minister of State will do his utmost to ensure this happens without delay.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Nov 2002)

Timmy Dooley: ...sets out the framework for development, particularly along the western corridor and in areas of Ireland that have not been developed to date. It is vital that Departments adhere to the strategy going forward. There is a role in monitoring the work of the Departments in that regard. I would like to hear the Leader's comments.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Timmy Dooley: ...in this debate. I hope the Labour Party Members will be able to agree among themselves in a manner that does not require the House to be divided on this issue. The legislation they seek to bring forward from their perspective is feeding into a debate which has found unanimity in the House to date. For the first time since I entered this House there has been a collegial approach to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The committee could write to the Department, based on what we have heard from the CRU, and ask it to come forward with a response to the legislative challenge in this regard. That would be helpful. My next point relates to the general cost of electricity being based on the wholesale market. The CRU rightly put forward the principle of hedging, which has protected us from extremes on one...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Timmy Dooley: As it is Deputy Burton's first opportunity to take Leaders' Questions in her new role as Tánaiste, on behalf of our party, I wish her well in the work ahead as Tánaiste and look forward to continued robust interaction with her here. The decision seven days ago to prevent two of the five Garth Brooks concerts going ahead should have signalled to the Tánaiste and the Government...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Timmy Dooley: ...State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and Mr. Tony O'Brien have outlined, there are three options for achieving these objectives. We could opt to reprioritise spending within the health Vote or we could bring forward a spending plan later in the year. The third option, pretending the problem will somehow go away in the summer, is not really an option. That is a total nonsense and fewer and...

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: There will be no extra borrowing for current spending. This is fairy-tale stuff. It is Lapland economics. It is as though they are going to write to Santa and all will be delivered on Christmas morning. It just does not work like that. That is why the strategy being put forward by this Government, which some people continue to fail to recognise, is about stabilising the economy and the...

Seanad: Dublin Traffic Congestion: Motion. (11 Jun 2003)

Timmy Dooley: ...the economy and creating development. The measures set out and clearly identified in the motion, such as Luas, the metro, the M50 and quality bus corridors, will certainly have a major impact going forward but such infrastructural projects take time. Much of the work is under way. We are aware of the problems. The construction of Luas has daily implications for congestion. We should not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (29 Apr 2015)

Timmy Dooley: ...effect, what he intends to do is place an additional burden on the balance sheet and books of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann, making them less cost effective. This undermines the entire strategy his Government put forward in the first instance to privatise the routes. He is now going to create an additional cost base by retaining workers with the company. That makes no sense. I am...

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme (6 Dec 2016)

Timmy Dooley: ...200 MW of electricity across the State if the existing REFIT scheme was addressed for onshore wind projects. Of course, the other technologies are exploratory. They are important, but they are going to be costly. However, the Minister is going to have to begin the process of looking at offshore wind projects and solar power and the sooner that happens, the better. It would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consumer Complaints Process: ComReg (9 Dec 2020)

Timmy Dooley: ...but they have come before the committee and it is hoped they will do so again. We will give them plenty of opportunities. The witnesses do not have the tools to impose fines. I ask them to bring forward recommendations to us, as well as to the Government. My recollection is that ComReg's only connection with the parliamentary process is that it is reports to us on an annual basis,...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (9 May 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I look forward to checking out the website to see all of that information, but the one piece of information I suspect will not be there is some kind of a timeline or deadline by which the Minister will have signed the contract. Will the Minister even give us an expected date for the issuance of the contract? I know there have been pre-discussions with selected bidders, and that is all fine,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Apr 2003)

Timmy Dooley: ...other night produced by RTE would be shocked by the level of fraud that there seems to be in the sector. It is no wonder that insurance premiums are at the level they are at in the light of what is going on in that practice. A debate on the sector would be useful. I also raise the need to have a debate on sport, in particular sports facilities. I am referring to the national stadium....

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...to give me a timeline, his simple answer was that it was not about timing and that the matter was far too important for that. He said it was more important to get it right because the contract was going to exist for 25 years. When I bring forward an idea about trying to get it right, however, time becomes a problem again. Time is only an issue when something comes from this side of the...