Results 41-60 of 165 for going forward speaker:Timmy Dooley

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...level of importance with which it must be treated if we are to have any meaningful impact on reducing our emissions, maintaining temperatures at the desired level and addressing the commitments the Government has already entered into. The real failure of a joined-up Government approach is evident here. Notwithstanding the Minister's interest and effort, I feel the failure to have senior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister and thank him for his honest appraisal of the current position of the Government and the Department. This committee has been trying to move matters forward in as non-adversarial and non-partisan a manner as possible. The Minister's frank analysis is helpful is assisting us in trying to do that. The Chairman asked the Minister about targets. I published a Bill that...

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ..., we will have to turn it on its head somehow in respect of dealing with the environment and climate change. I hope he will participate in that. I thank the Green Party for bringing this motion forward. As I stated on Second Stage of the Bill, and again at the communications committee, we will work with the Green Party, the Labour Party and others to try to bring this to fruition. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (4 Oct 2018)

Timmy Dooley: .... At some point, we will reach a tipping point, where there will be a significant demand and I am concerned that the network of charging points will not adequate to meet it. The incentives are good, but could be better. Others have outlined what has happened in Norway and we have put forward policy proposals in that regard in the past. It is imperative that we do something big to...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...there is a resource already blowing off the west and east coasts and it is about harnessing that resource and generating clean energy from it. We have much more to do to address the targets we are, unfortunately, going to miss for 2020 and, I suspect, for 2030 unless we make significant changes to the way we do our business. That is now a feature of the work of the Joint Committee on...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Climate Change Reporting) Bill 2018: First Stage (11 Jul 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 to expand the responsibilities of the Government's climate change advisory council to publish guidance to companies on measuring and reporting their exposure to the risks of climate change and their impacts on the climate. This Bill will expand the responsibilities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...present. The Government has not shown the political will needed to address what is now a crisis based on what the EPA had to state. We have known for some time the extent to which we are going to miss our targets. For a while there was a denial at Government level that we would miss them. The expectation was that we would catch up, but it has been known for some time that this is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Regulation of Utilities: Discussion (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...resourced and have more powers. Parliament here is very weak. We thought new politics would begin a process, but it has not happened. There is a backlog of Bills. We have the capacity to bring forward Bills, but if the Government does not give the money message, it does not go anywhere. In my view, the committee is being prevented from carrying out its side of the responsibility in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...bins and what should be put in what is generally labelled the "wet" bin. Will the Minister comment on the watchdog that was established at the time? He will recall that Fianna Fáil brought forward a proposal in Private Members' time to establish a more comprehensive method of ensuring value for money would be achieved across the sector, but it was rejected at the time. There was...

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...

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...and triplicate services and so on. What we want is broadband for all of the reasons I have outlined. As the Minister knows well, that is what his constituents want. I ask the Minister to go back to Government and to then come forward with a credible proposal to review the process. The Minister mentioned in a briefing the other day that he had a plan B. Perhaps he might share that with...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...was only 4° Celsius lower than it is now. Too many countries are already feeling the effects of this temperature change and the associated climatic shifts. Public health experts have warned that the ongoing water shortages in Cape Town, a city with 4 million inhabitants, will likely result in the outbreak of life-threatening illness. Spain and Portugal are still grappling with...

Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2017)

Timmy Dooley: ...be done if we do not provide them with the material to create unnecessary waste which is having a detrimental impact on the environment. To some extent, I can handle the notion of more material going back, as Repak would put it, into a recoverable environment where it would be used as low-grade fuel or ultimately end up in landfill, but we must move away from it. However, the biggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. They are helpful for us in trying to move this legislation forward. My first comments will be to the Department's representatives. The comments are somewhat political but the witnesses are representing the Minister. I presume they are here to present his views and ideas, rather than necessarily the Department's views. The scale of the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: ...and when congestion and the capacity of the M50 are reaching the threshold beyond which they would have a serious drawback on the economic activity of Dublin, the Minister, Deputy Ross, is coming forward with no plans. There are no plans that I am aware of or he is being pretty silent about them. The people who drive home this evening from work and who use the M50 might well recall their...

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,...

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (13 Apr 2017)

Timmy Dooley: ...fish to their natural environment. The fishing sector is, in many cases, the only attraction for tourism into vast tracts of our State. I believe it is a sector that has been under-supported by successive Governments, as is evident from the length of time it has taken to bring such a Bill to the House. There are many locations dotted throughout the country that with a little bit of...

North-South Interconnector: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2017)

Timmy Dooley: ...-South interconnector; - that the recent decision of An Bord Pleanála to approve planning permission for the overhead pylon project did not consider an alternative underground option, which was not put forward by EirGrid; - the negative impacts that an overground interconnector will have on the landscape of these areas, particularly on their more scenic and ecologically sensitive...

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]

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jan 2017)

Timmy Dooley: .... It is one of our most vital assets, particularly in rural areas where post offices have long since served as informal community centres and hubs of administration. Post offices are where we go not only to send post or to pick up our pensions, but to catch up with neighbours and to hear the local gossip. For many people living in rural Ireland, the post office is one of the few places...