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Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: You have got a compliment from Deputy Mathews, Minister.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: She dismissed the concerns raised on this side of the House.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: Last week, the Tánaiste dismissed concerns raised by my colleague, Deputy Barry Cowen, when he referred to the problem of the illicit drug trade in Dublin city centre. I understand that tonight "Prime Time" is airing a special programme on the serious consequences the drug trade is having on Dublin city centre. One Temple Bar business owner says the problem is beyond tipping point....

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: It is the illicit drug trade which the Tánaiste said last week was not a problem.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: It is good to see the Tánaiste and Labour Ministers back on the Front Bench this week. They were certainly notable by their absence for the past two days.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: It would seem that every effort is being made by the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and others in Fine Gael to move on from Mr. McNulty's appointment to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art to allow him to qualify for the Seanad by-election. This is not going to happen until the basic questions are answered about the whole debacle. Some are saying this is an internal matter for Fine Gael...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: The Tánaiste and her party made a virtue of and won votes in the 2011 general election based on the promise of reforming the political system.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: In the last number of days, while canvassing in Roscommon and Dublin, I saw that cynicism about the political system is rife.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: What the Taoiseach has done in the last number of days, and been helped to do by the Tánaiste, has done nothing to dispel this.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: Is the Tánaiste's silence over the last number of days on this piece of stroke politics-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: -----a consequence of her own party's involvement in appointing political cronies to State boards? Does the Tánaiste agree with the Taoiseach's explanation over the last number of days that everything that has happened since this appointment has been coincidental? The Minister, Deputy Howlin, came out on Tuesday, after the Cabinet meeting and after the Cabinet sub-committee meeting on...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: The Tánaiste talks about the political appointments process and how it is important to ensure that the right calibre of persons serve on political boards. I agree with the Tánaiste on this. However, since 2011, the Tánaiste herself, in her own Department, has appointed 13 people and only one of those has come through the public political appointments process.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: That is in reply to a parliamentary question that was submitted prior to the summer. Perhaps the Tánaiste can confirm that, or else the reply to the parliamentary question is inaccurate.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: Will the Tánaiste confirm also, in regard to the political appointment to IMMA of the former Labour Party councillor in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, that she too meets the required standard to serve on that board?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (2 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to address the growing disparity between tracker mortgage rates and the standard variable rate charged by the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37065/14]

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Robert Troy: Who did he raise it with?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: This is a relevant point.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: The centre provides services for more than 200 adults and children with an intellectual disability. Because of savage cutbacks over the past number of years, it is running the risk of having to close two community houses. The centre has a deficit of €450,000-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: I am sorry. When I try to raise this issue by way of parliamentary question, it is referred to the HSE, a body the Government was going to abolish. When will the Government take responsibility for the consequences its budgetary decisions are having on the people affected by them?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Robert Troy: More than 20 senior citizens with an intellectual disability face having their care home closed, and when I ask the relevant Minister about this I am not being answered.