Results 2,021-2,040 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan

Planning Issues. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: Would the Minister agree with the European opinion that Irish planning law is weak on retention planning? Will he bring any proposals forward to assist local authorities in ensuring they have better guidance on matters such as the one in Derrybrien? I cannot believe such a large wind farm would not be subject to an environmental impact statement. A large number of environmental cases are...

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: Good man John. The Minister should not get carried away.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy on incineration and its role in the national waste strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27787/08]

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister has repeatedly said, since coming to office, that he has no role in the planning and granting of licences relating to incinerators or other waste management infrastructure. Yet, when An Bord Pleanála or the Environmental Protection Agency makes decisions he has, through media interviews, said that he is going to make those decisions redundant in his own constituency in Poolbeg....

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: If the Minister is so much against incineration, why did he meet an economic consultant about a 100,000 tonne incinerator in Rathcoole?

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: Why did the Minister meet the person concerned?

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: It is quite difficult to get to meet a Minister, whether as part of a delegation or deputation or even as an individual, unless one attends the Minister's clinic. I was amazed that the Minister put himself in a position — notwithstanding what he has just said and I accept his bona fides in the matter — whereby he gave the impression that he was in favour of incineration. He surely knew...

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: My party is not in Government. The Minister is in Government.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: When?

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is in favour of it.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: Which is now accepted by the Minister.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is now meeting the developers of incinerators.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is meeting incinerator developers. What hypocrisy.

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: In a previous reply, the Minister stated that he would not be afraid to make a tough decision, if necessary, on the e-voting machines. Obviously he did not get around to making any tough decision in the past few days, despite the announcement of €43 million worth of cuts in his Department. He has an opportunity now to make some savings by terminating the storage arrangements and selling...

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: I am glad to hear the Minister has read our manifesto. I have read the Green Party's manifesto which has changed considerably.

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Green Party tore up its manifesto last June.

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question.

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: I know the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is being very patient.

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: I know the Minister had a difficulty with e-voting machines when there was no verifiable paper trail before the election but, like everything in his party's manifesto, it has been torn up. Does he accept that those machines are effectively obsolete? Does he also accept that this is a more meaningful way of making savings in his Department rather than the proposal he came up with this week?

Electronic Voting. (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Hogan: The Minister should justify that.