Results 881-900 of 11,050 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Seanad: Carbon Budgets: Motion (5 Apr 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I had the pleasure of sitting on the climate change committee in the last Oireachtas on behalf of Fianna Fáil and I was probably in the minority in that we were in opposition, yet I supported the principle of carbon tax. We were not in government and we did not have to do it, but we did so because it was the right thing to do. I...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: The Leader will be well aware that in recent days a number of our utility companies have outlined their intention to increase significantly the charges for electricity. We all know that the context for this is the very significant increase in wholesale fuel prices. Most of our electricity is guided by the price of gas and the cost of a therm of gas has gone from 60p prior to the Covid-19...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I join others in asking for a debate on the crisis facing the agricultural sector. It would be appropriate if we had the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine before us in the House. I very much welcome the decision of the Government yesterday to set aside up to €12 million to assist farmers generally in meeting the challenges faced with the crisis in the grain supply. The...
- Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: This debate is overdue. I recognise the tremendous efforts of the Minister and the Department to deal with the crisis caused by what has happened in Ukraine. We will leave that discussion for another day. There is little doubt that these people have suffered great trauma. Seventeen days ago, I travelled to Lviv in Ukraine to see at first hand the conditions refugees were facing in advance...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Senator Horkan will express sympathy on behalf of Fianna Fáil with regard to Mr. Hill. The Senator knew him personally and I understand he was in his company over the weekend. On behalf of Fianna Fáil, I ask the House to reflect on and remember a former Member of this House who passed away over the past few days, Mr. Paul Kavanagh. He served here for a period in the 1980s. He...
- Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Like Senator Buttimer, I thank the Minister for his engagement at the committee. We spent many hours in discussion and teasing out not just this legislation. As the Minister has rightly identified, this is effectively a stop-gap measure, to paraphrase slightly, in respect of what needs to happen regarding the composition of the board. I have certainly been taken by our engagement as a...
- Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: On International Women's Day, it is a sad state of affairs that 22 million women on the Continent of Europe are fleeing for their lives and those of their children at the behest of a brutal dictator. At the weekend I had the privilege of being invited to Ukraine by President Zelensky's party. I travelled with Billy Kelleher MEP to Lviv. We had an invitation to see at first hand the crisis...
- Seanad: Situation in Ukraine: Statements (1 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister to the House, and recognise and thank him for the leadership he has shown on this particular issue on behalf of the Government and the people. Many striking issues arise from this outrageous act of barbarism perpetrated by an evil thug. One of the most striking is that we did not really see it coming. Notwithstanding the best available intelligence, the international...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the Chairman for the promotion; I will take that. I thank all the witnesses here for their presentations. I have been advocating for this session for a while. While we talk a lot about what we have to do and decarbonisation, up to now much of that discussion - this is not in any way a negative towards the academics online with us - has been academic in nature and it comes from a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Do the witnesses find that, at times, the regulatory burden is an impediment to the innovation we should be harnessing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Is that in the state architecture?
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome the three MEPs and thank them for their presentations. Mr. Kelleher at the outset talked about the Seanad being a Chamber of non-partisan politics and that is partly true. It is also well recognised that the three MEPs among us work collectively on behalf of the Irish people and the island of Ireland when they work in the European Parliament, notwithstanding the fact that they are...
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I move: That Seanad Éireann: Approves the calling of two Citizens’ Assemblies to consider the following matters and to make such recommendations as it sees fit and report to the Houses of the Oireachtas: (1) a Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, with a total of 100 members, including an independent Chairperson and 99 randomly-selected members of the public, to...
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It falls to me to welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for bringing forward this motion, which is in line with a commitment made in the programme for Government. It follows from a successful approach to dealing with matters that have been sensitive and often difficult to grapple with at a political level for a variety of reasons. I always had concerns about citizens'...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I might get some clarity from the Cathaoirleach before I make the point I wish to raise. Our colleague raised the issue of the unrest in Canada and requested he write to the Canadian ambassador. Before he does that, we should have a full debate in the House and let all sides of that issue be discussed. My reading of what is going on in Canada is that it is really an extension of Trumpism,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It is to be expected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I will probably not need that much time because my colleagues from the Clare and mid-west region have covered many of the issues. I thank our guests for their presentation and their ongoing work, which is much appreciated. The concept of the Shannon Airport spur has been around for a considerable period. In my view, the strength of that offering will be the speed at which a train can get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)
Timmy Dooley: One of the biggest things to recognise is that Dublin Airport is reaching capacity. I know there is an additional runway but that is not going to meet demand as we head towards 2040 and 2050. People who understand the infrastructure of Dublin Airport know it is reaching a point beyond which it cannot go. There is a lot of latent capacity at Shannon Airport. There was an initiative by a...