Results 501-520 of 1,227 for speaker:Derek Keating

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if senior management of State owned banks converted their variable mortgages to tracker mortgages either six months before or six months after the date of the Government funded banking guarantee. [43095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the education of a child (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43200/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the inventive schemes available from his Department to encourage foreign direct investment in Ireland in the green energy sector. [43094/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Funding (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual budget for the Industrial Development Agency. [43104/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: General Register Office (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Minister who is responsible for the General Register Office will provide a new facility equal to the current one at the Irish Life Centre Dublin in the interest of providing family historians from both home and abroad with a new facility. [43102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of his Departments funding available for green projects. [43089/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a sewage treatment facility (details supplied) in County Galway will be upgraded and available for use. [43103/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the single farm payment has ceased in respect of those companies or businesses which were found to have contributed to the horse meat scandal. [43098/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (15 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that had penalties imposed on them following a land eligibility inspection in County Tipperary in 2012. [43101/13]

Order of Business (9 Oct 2013)

Derek Keating: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the progress of promised legislation, the Spent Convictions Bill, which is important legislation for quite a number of people. I met a resident recently who had broken a pane of glass when he was 17 years of age which was well over 40 years ago, and that has had ramifications and implications for himself and his family in the context of travelling ever since.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation and commend the Minister, Deputy Shatter, on its introduction. I concur with many of the points made by previous contributors from both sides of the House in relation to the imprisonment of a person for the non-payment of a fine. It is extraordinarily positive that we are introducing, as part of the modernising of our courts,...

Order of Business (26 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: Is there legislation promised to address the serious issue of bonding of horses? This is a matter of considerable importance and is costing local authorities vast sums of money.

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I welcome the opportunity to contribute, albeit briefly, to the debate on this important issue. For me, education is far more than children in classrooms. It is about broadening minds, using the skills of our community and assets of our State to enhance and consolidate each young person's own wish to achieve in life. It is about helping young people to achieve their potential. Recently, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: That type of language is unnecessary and should not be allowed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I want to contextualise the discussion and will begin where Deputy O'Dea left off. During his contribution, he asked the representatives of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul whether they had noticed a drop-off in their income. Everybody has noticed a drop-off in income because of the mismanagement of our country by Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I did not want touch on this but the Deputy provoked me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: It is worth putting context on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: We would not have an education system-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I ask for the protection of the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)

Derek Keating: I did not interrupt anybody; I bore the pain of having to listen to it.