Results 281-300 of 4,717 for speaker:Martin Mansergh

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: Few issues are more sensitive, emotive or important than hospital reconfiguration. However, in an extremely difficult financial position where, as one commentator put it, Ireland is in the spotlight "24 seven", we must be measured and responsible even when expressing strong feelings. Comments beamed at the constituency may end up in the Financial Times or other international media as...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: -----for the foreseeable future, something to which I attach particular importance. I understand the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, may not necessarily go that far but I am satisfied that no decisions are likely in the lifetime of this Dáil. The Minister, Deputy Harney, stressed the importance of patient safety at each hospital and made it clear that the health service would have to...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: Will it happen when the people on the other side are in power?

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: No, I agree.

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: I will inform the Senator about mine.

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: I thank all Senators for their contributions to what has been a very good debate and will try, with whirlwind speed, to go through some of the points made. Senator Twomey asked for a progress report on the Croke Park agreement, an issue which, I gather, was also raised on the Order of Business today. It is a very important part of the reform programme in respect of the public finances,...

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (Resumed) (6 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: Senator Twomey made a point, with which I agree. He said the next Government - I mean this in a broad sense - would be tied to commitments entered into by the Government. I have seen this operate at eurozone meetings and it is nothing particularly new. I remember that in the late 1980s the incoming Fianna Fáil Government spent three years paying the housing grants granted by the previous...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (5 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: The premises in question, formerly a detention centre, was vacated earlier this year by the Department of Justice and Law Reform. A number of bodies, including St. Paul's School, Finglas, have since expressed an interest in the premises. The Department of Education has just completed a technical assessment of part of the premises, in light of the requirements of St.Paul's. As this...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (5 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: A Design Team has been appointed to progress and oversee this Project, which relates to the repair/reinstatement of the Chesterfield Avenue, the main road through the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The Design Team is advancing with the preparation of the necessary documentation to allow for the required formal tender process to be undertaken. A number of surveys critical to the finalisation of the...

Written Answers — National Heritage Areas: National Heritage Areas (5 Oct 2010)

Martin Mansergh: OPW records indicate that the expenditure incurred and receipts realised since 1987 on the Great Heath of Maryborough are as outlined below. Expenditure by OPW 1987 to date: Legal Advice on State's Title to Health €0.00 Midland Circuit Record E45/94 €73,124.79 High Court Record 6238P/2002 €38,726.36 High Court Record 6702P/2002 €114,031.25 Agricultural...

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to statements on the economy. It is a critical day in our recent development. The economic downturn that has afflicted this country over the past two years has been unprecedented in its severity and complexity. It has therefore presented the Government with a series of major challenges to deal with it. The Government had to respond...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: This is certainly a very important day in the history of this country and, indeed, the life of this Dáil. There is a conviction on the part of the Government that, with today's announcements, we have finally hit the bottom as far as the banking situation is concerned and that potential liabilities have been defined. Uncertainty as to the dimensions of the problem, coupled with the...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: The interesting point in this regard is that the debate has changed. When that comment was first made, Boston represented America, neoliberalism, light regulation and so on, while Berlin represented European social democracy. There is a good case to be made that today, we perhaps are closer to Frankfurt than to Berlin or Boston. As Frankfurt has a sort of rigour about it that would not...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: For a long time, property and banks were advocated and thought of as the safest and most profitable forms of investment. Undoubtedly, low taxes for higher earners fuelled the property bubble and led people to spend money on all sorts of inessentials. To the extent that there were warnings, and I suppose most Members would have been aware of them in the background over the years, in the main...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: I did not say that.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: The Deputy should not attack public servants who do not have the right of reply and should apologise.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: On a point of order, it is wrong to make strong attacks on civil servants who do not have a right of reply in this House. There is a well established practice in this House on that.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: I drive a car every day of the week.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

Martin Mansergh: No, I accept that.