Results 281-300 of 1,799 for speaker:Luke Flanagan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: It must be earned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Except my question; that is the important part.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: It could not be, really.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: May I ask a supplementary question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I have waited here for four and a half hours and my question was not answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The witness refused to answer the question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The question is as follows. What will change under Irish Water? The witness has stated-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: ----- that the local authorities will continue to operate the Castlerea scheme. What will change? With respect, the kids in my neighbourhood are puking their guts up because of what they have to deal with. It would not be possible for it to affect Mr. Grant as much as it does us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: What about the reporting of pollution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: It was stated that the goal is that Irish Water wants clean, high-quality affordable water, and I agree with the officials on that but at the moment there is not clean or quality water where I come from and once the company starts charging people, we will not have affordable water either. I am, therefore, a little worried about the future. Members have asked if people cannot drink the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Only when the Minister reacts does it get front-page coverage. That is how the Minister does his business and the same goes for the Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Why was I not given a copy of the document?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: There is information in respect of the Garda Síochána that the Minister apparently could not get.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: How can the Minister be in charge of a company and claim the information is commercially sensitive and therefore he cannot get it? That is not in any way credible.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister has the information.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister should send it on to the Garda. The Minister has the information. Next time the Minister cries when a child is in pain because there is not enough money to help them, he should remember where it went. The Minister is doing nothing about this. This is our money, my children's money, my neighbour's money and the country's money and the Minister could not give a damn about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: It is a fact.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister is up there with the Minister for Justice and Equality, a great achievement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister should be ashamed of himself given what he is after doing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (11 Feb 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister says there was a thorough review. There was not a thorough review. At the core of this issue are two allegations. The CCTV evidence of sample tampering is available and there are unexplained variations in conversion factors both in relation to specific sales and a pattern over a period, which can only be assessed with the benefit of auction sales and conversion factor dates...