Results 1-20 of 92 for going forward speaker:Barry Cowen

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...country's biggest firms of solicitors. The lead homeowner who sent the email was a senior lawyer at Matheson. This carry-on is not isolated. I want to hear the Minister say how much further he will go on judicial reviews. For example, the law could be tightened to make the leave to seek cases and the full hearing of the claim heard at the same time in one set of proceedings. Is that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...they have met, again, this year, as they have on many previous occasions. They are seeking for those privileged enough to represent them and others to use the opportunity to ensure that the Government responds more effectively than it has in the past. I last met the good gentlemen when we arranged to meet the Tánaiste in Athlone some weeks ago to present the issue, as my colleagues...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...years disagrees with that obligation. Others may find a way in which to disguise that fact, but that is their business and for them to answer to, if people seek to question it, at the doors when they go before the electorate when the occasion to do so presents itself. The point I would like to make relates to the planning procedures and the authority the State has on foot of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Will the Minister of State clarify that he will be back and will not proceed until the opinion is made known? It is not possible to be half-pregnant here. We go forward with all the legislation or none of it.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Barry Cowen: ...Development Agency on a statutory footing and to confer on it various powers. Housing was the dominant issue in the general election, and it was the dominant issue in the lifetime of the previous Government. It remains a dominant issue in society. Of course, it has been challenged by issues resulting from the pandemic and the impact that has had on different sectors, but there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (7 Jul 2020)

Barry Cowen: ...guidelines on animal welfare for a range of species, was sent to all pet shops in the country, and is available on my Department’s website. Furthermore, again in 2019, my Department brought forward the Animal Health and Welfare (Sale or Supply of Pet Animals) Regulations (SI 681 of 2019), with a view to further controlling the sale and supply of pet animals, in the interests...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Barry Cowen: ...employers to be in a position to succeed in this new environment." While I agree with some of the sentiments, it is possibly the wrong time to be raising this. Business owners today need belief that they are going to get through this. They need the State to back them. Over time, some of these business will not survive, but informing business owners now that only viable businesses will...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Barry Cowen: ...the payments are not taxable whereas on page eight, it says that it is subject to taxation at the end of the year so could the Minister clarify that matter? Regarding amendments Nos. 59 and 68 put forward by Deputy Michael McGrath, while I respect and appreciate the need for the Minister to have at his disposal the power to vary this legislation as the emergency evolves and as he sees the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...Fine Gael mismanagement. As Deputy Michael McGrath stated, the measures taken today come at a late hour in the process. The clock was close to midnight before the Government realised the lights were going out on Brexit. The past several years of budgetary management by Fine Gael have been characterised by overspends and missed deadlines. The need to put on the brakes, faced with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...Defence Forces, and consultants, subject to the conditions associated with that agreement, to allow for agreements to be acted on, bearing in mind that both parties, including the Minister and his Government, signed in good faith. It is surprising that conditionality appears to have been associated with the request to go to the Labour Court regarding the strike action being taken this...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am happy to speak on this Bill this evening. Contrary to what the Taoiseach has espoused, this Bill forms part of a series of constructive measures put forward by Fianna Fáil to tackle the high insurance costs businesses and individuals are facing throughout the country. We debated a Fianna Fáil motion on business insurance here some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Barry Cowen: That derogation was granted and the board was allowed to go down this road, which led ultimately to the overrun. Mr. Watt said he sits on another committee that meets on a weekly basis to discuss capital spending across all Departments. I imagine it engages in extra scrutiny around the time of the Estimates. However, the information was not relayed to Mr. Watt to bring forward an Estimate....

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...the publication of this legislation, which, as has been rightly stated by many, none of us wants to see implemented. Nonetheless, it is legislation that is entirely necessary in order for the Government and the Dáil to be assured that, in so far as is possible, every eventuality which may affect the viability of many aspects of economic and social life is dealt with appropriately....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (28 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...four years, in light of the commitments that have been made since the launch of Project Ireland 2040. If this cost is many multiples of that, where do we stand and when will be put on notice as to what the consequences of that overspend is going to be in regard to the national development plan? I want to raise the issue of insurance. I am talking broadly because I acknowledge the detail...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: We all know the origins of and reasons behind the Further Revised Estimates. They are the result of the Government's mismanagement of the process to deliver the national children's hospital. We are well aware that there are many outstanding questions about how we arrived at this sorry state of affairs, as indicated in the Minister's apology to the House last week. When was he first...

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: I thank all contributors to this evening's debate. I note the support from all sides of the House, bar the Government side, which has decided to abstain. I will address some of the points made by the only two Government Members who spoke, namely, the Ministers of State, Deputies D'Arcy and Kehoe. The Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, stated there is a "well established framework of...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...stability to properly face a more politically unstable world. If we were to have the instability that Sinn Féin crave we, as a country, would be in no position to have our voices heard in Brexit negotiations. There would be nobody to articulate the Irish perspective on this crucial period in European history. I am left questioning whether this is its preferred position as it fails...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: While we were not successful in forming a Government it was crystal clear that the public had soundly rejected Fine Gael’s notion that the recovery was being felt nationally. The public categorically rejected the Tory-style tax cuts for the rich, and it was in this context that Fianna Fáil negotiated the confidence and supply agreement to underpin a new Government. Fianna...

Topical Issue Debate: Asylum Applications (14 Jun 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...and is an integral part of that community and that education system. They are as Irish, I believe, as the Minister or myself. They have not been a financial burden on the State, and will not be going forward. When one re-enters the country after having been abroad, as we all have done, it is gratifying to hear an official from the Department of Justice and Equality welcome us home....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Barry Cowen: I never have too much time for much of what Deputy O'Dowd says. The Government chose to disregard the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill that is currently going through the Houses as a means of facilitating a more inclusive role for Members of the Houses in agreeing a spatial strategy. That is the prerogative and the right of the Government and we respect and acknowledge that. It...