Results 2,021-2,040 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: These companies are not regulated. I do not include the company the Minister mentioned because I do not know anything about it, but Friends of the Earth has raised many issues around this. These companies are not regulated and we do not know what will happen to the money. It is a load of nonsense.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: No, it does not. Friends of the Earth in Ireland does not.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Friends of the Earth in the UK argue that supporting carbon offsetting companies could delay laws being put in place to set targets for everybody to cut carbon emissions. Is the Minister aware of that information on the Friends of the Earth website?

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Why not put more buses on the road? The Minister is letting the Government away with murder regarding buses. The Department of Transport is making people take buses off the road, and then the Government is paying this out to some other country.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: I spoke metaphorically.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: That is because the Minister could not get anything else.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Maybe they would like electricity and water.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: It is all cosmetic.

Services for People with Disabilities. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Local authorities are still allowing buildings to be constructed that do not have proper access for the disabled. An example relates to affordable housing. I dealt with a constituent who was offered affordable housing by a particular council but when she went to examine it, she found that she could not move her wheelchair around the building. Apparently, the apartments were built in...

Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Why is the assessment of housing need so old? Surely this should be updated at least yearly. I am sure there are more than the 43,600 to which the Minister of State refers. The reply referred to 9,000 housing starts in 2007. From my experience as a councillor, I know this to be a meaningless statistic because it has no relationship to the houses built and allocated to people on the...

Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Will the Government do anything to fast-track the building and delivery of social housing? Now is the chance, when there are problems in the construction industry, to put construction workers building social housing in order to provide people with homes and the security that goes with it.

Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: We have approximately 5% social housing and not too long ago, perhaps 30 years ago, we had approximately 30%. Last year, we had approximately 9,000 houses but we needed 10,000 year on year for the previous five years. We need front-loaded social housing construction. Will the Minister of State ensure construction workers build these houses now so people can get roofs over their heads? It...

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle was the Minister who introduced section 72 of the Electoral Act 1997 which would allow the Minister to make regulations limiting election expenditure in local elections. I would like a straightforward commitment from the Minister that he will introduce limits on spending in next year's local elections. The Green Party and the Labour Party have a lot in common....

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: We introduced the legislation and we brought in the limits for general elections.

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Consensus is good and I have no problem with it. Has Fianna Fáil stated the Minister can do this in time for next year's local elections?

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Has it agreed yet?

Public Private Partnerships: Motion (Resumed). (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: I wish to focus on the general issues related to the Government's housing policy during the past ten years. We debated this issue a number of times in this House and it was the subject of a number of debates when I was a Member of the Seanad. The Minister at the time, Deputy Noel Ahern, used to come in and give statistics such as the fact that there were 50,000 completions this year and...

Public Private Partnerships: Motion (Resumed). (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: That was when the Labour Party was in Government. That was the right policy. In places such as Crumlin and Sarsfield Park in Lucan, where I live, those people went on to buy their houses and their children eventually went to university. They were given a good chance in life and housing policy was good then. Since this Government has got in it has fallen apart and has been totally...

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 78: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has taken steps to establish or investigate if the necessary archeological information was available when the decision to approve the M3 Motorway route was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27565/08]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he met with a company (details supplied) or any company or agents on their behalf to discuss a proposal for an incinerator at Rathcoole, County Dublin; when this meeting occurred; the purpose of the meeting; the outcome of same; if his attention has been drawn to the widespread public concern that an...