Results 25,301-25,320 of 33,175 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Given that the Deputy managed to get two questions in, I will do my best to answer both.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, is here to offer me moral support and guidance on how I do this morning.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The drafting of the Bill is at an advanced stage and it is due to be published this session. Section 12 of the Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 will be enacted by the end of December and those members of the Garda Síochána who applied for the vacancies to which the Deputy referred were told when they applied that the Policing...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: This is the reason we have put in place the higher levels of investment in the health service, the €14.6 billion to which I referred earlier in reply to a question from Deputy Kelleher. I agree with Deputy Martin Kenny regarding the hiring of front-line speech and language therapists and I want further progress to be made on the matter. The HSE is carrying out a review of how it...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I want the service to be expanded and improved across the country next year.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I am not in a position to provide the staffing levels relating to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs this morning, but I will obtain that information and forward it to the Deputy. On his broader point regarding the need for balanced regional economic development, this was acknowledged very strongly by myself and the Government on budget day. For example,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I agree with much of what the Deputy said. Of course, there were clear lessons in the message people sent to the previous Government in the recent general election. The reason an action plan will be published later this year by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Humphreys, and the Ministers of State, Deputy Ring and Deputy Kyne, is to respond to...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Can I just confirm my understanding? Has Deputy Wallace agreed to appear in front of the Committee of Public Accounts in relation to this issue?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Will the Deputy?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: And when will the Deputy do it?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: We must have process in relation to all of this. Deputy Wallace has called for, and Government responded-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----through seeing the Comptroller and Auditor General do its work. The report was made public, as of course it should be. On the back of that then, the Committee of Public Accounts is doing the work. Government has already made clear that in the aftermath of that happening, because we have confidence in the ability of Members of the Oireachtas, both Government or non-Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----to provide a valuable service in understanding and interrogating an issue that we understand to be of public concern-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I ask that Deputy Wallace do the same, and with the alleged evidence that he has-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: ------and with the claims that he has-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----that the Deputy makes that available to the Committee of Public Accounts, Deputy Wallace himself go in and give testimony on the points that he has raised.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Of course, all of the claims that Deputy Wallace has concluded with there are precisely because we recognise here that there are issues that merited further understanding on behalf of the Government, the Oireachtas and the public and the Committee of Public Accounts went ahead and did its work as a body of the Oireachtas which it should. The Government has already made clear that if further...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: No, the Government will not be suspending the board of NAMA or any of its officers with regard to this issue. It is, as is the case with any other body, entitled to see a process in which it is participating completed. The Deputy has on a number of occasions called for investigation and interrogation to be carried out regarding the circumstances of Project Eagle. That is what is happening...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What the Deputy said reminds me of what Sinn Féin used to say about the European Union, namely, that it was designed only for big companies and corporations and was not for the benefit of countries such as ours. When they saw the risk posed by Brexit to Irish interests on all parts of the island, Sinn Féin members changed their minds and their tune completely.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Martin Kenny asserted that this is an attack on democracy. How can he make that claim when this is the very Chamber that will be able to cast a vote on the issue?