Results 2,041-2,060 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: This Government privatised Aer Lingus.

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Will it be in the manifesto?

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear. It was Charlie McCreevy.

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That is not true. The Minister should withdraw that comment. Charlie McCreevy had a bee in his bonnet about this.

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Government gutted it.

Fisheries Protection. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: There will be lots of meetings in the next few weeks.

Electricity Generation. (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: As I watched the last 20 minutes of the Taoiseach's rant last Saturday night, I thought he would make a good leader of the next Opposition. The Government has been a failure in this area. Ten years ago, renewable energy sources came to 2% of overall energy resources, and that has remained so. Micro-generation, which is not even referred to in the White Paper, is an example of this failure.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I move amendment No. 9: In page 10, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(d) by inserting the following after subsection (1)(e): "(f) to invigilate the volumes and revenues of international and national mobile telecom services including all termination rates,";". These amendments are to amend section 10 of the 2002 Act as the Minister should have further expanded the powers of...

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: It would have been a great speech from the Leader of the Opposition. It is possible Deputy Bertie Ahern will be given the opportunity to find out, although knowing the Fianna Fáil Party he will not be left as Leader of the Opposition for too long. I assume people like the Minister and various other ambitious Fianna Fáil people when they are on these benches, as I expect them to be in...

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: These are amendments of the Communications Regulation Act 2002. Amendment No. 12 provides for a universal service obligation for all broadband undertakings. When will the Minister make the famous announcement, which the communication industry tells us is imminent, of a tendering process whereby the country will be broadband enabled? It was disappointing that we did not hear this during the...

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: This constituency is at the forefront of national endeavour and not just in hurling. The area is bereft of broadband. The usual excuse is that the lines are deficient because we paired lines to cope with the number of houses in the 70s and 80s on a particular line. Why are failure levels on our network as high as 25% when the rate in Northern Ireland is 1%, according to the last ComReg...

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I said the Minister did not introduce emergency legislation. Where is that legislation?

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: I read the Minister's press statements.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Nobody is responsible for it. Is that not right? If two or more are responsible for something, nobody is responsible for it.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That is the reason it does not have that.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Yes.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: How much will the Minister spend on the scheme?

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, has disappeared.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: Not in my house.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Tommy Broughan: That was a great achievement in 2004.