Results 421-440 of 2,725 for speaker:Noel Coonan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: Deputy Catherine Murphy and Senator Landy wish to ask supplementary questions, and Deputy Stanley hopes to be back to put some questions before the meeting closes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: That point has been made that we had been critically under-funded over the years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: One should direct questions through the Chair. We will not have any cross-conversations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: One can hold personal conversations afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: I ask the Senator not to interrupt and to please give Ms Burke a chance to speak. He also should address his remarks through the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: I call Senator Keane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: Yes. We will stay open all night for the Senator if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: That was a multitude of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: The Senator should speak through the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: I will invite the Deputy to contribute again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: Allow Mr. O'Leary to continue, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: I thank the delegation for its opening statement. Reference was made to boil water notices and also the direct discharging of raw sewage, with 44 cases cited. Are any of those cases in Tipperary? Does the number refer to 23,000 people or 23,000 homes affected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: It is a pretty disturbing picture and we do not hear much about it these days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: I have to declare a particular interest in Tipperary and its well-being.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: Senator Landy will get his chance in a minute. I thank him for his support.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: We will now consider the current roles, duties and responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency with particular reference to its monitoring and enforcement of licences at industrial facilities. I welcome Ms Laura Burke, who is the director general of the agency; Mr. Dara Lynott, who is the deputy director general of the agency's office of climate, licensing and resource use; Mr....
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: 412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2013 disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41197/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: 483. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding non-payment of Defence Forces' salary in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42099/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (4 Nov 2014)
Noel Coonan: 874. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school amalgamation project (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if funding has been made available for the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41367/14]
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
Noel Coonan: Deputy McGrath is a great man for the law.