Results 2,081-2,100 of 2,965 for speaker:Robert Dowds
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department which are paid up members of IBEC; the names of each agency or organisation; the amount which each agency or organisation paid to IBEC in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide information on the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of IBEC; the names of each agency or organisation; the amount which each agency or organisation paid to IBEC in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 580. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of IBEC; the names of each agency or organisation; the amount which each agency or organisation paid to IBEC in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 620. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide information on the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department which are paid up members of IBEC; the names of each agency or organisation; the amount which each agency or organisation paid to IBEC in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: I ask the Minister to clarify the role of the optician in dispensing spectacles. Opticians raised a concern about this role and I am interested in hearing the Minister's comments.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: Is the Minister stating that opticians have nothing to be concerned about in the context of their professional status being protected and that appropriate individuals will be charged with dispensing prescriptions?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: Will the by-laws have the same standing as the primary legislation in terms of compliance?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (8 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 130. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the costs of drugs-medicines for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38431/14]
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: Why did Sinn Féin change its position on water?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: Why did Sinn Féin change its position on water?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: When did Sinn Féin change its position on water?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: They want to cause chaos.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: She brought that about.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: The Deputy told people not to pay bin charges.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: The Deputies are paying their bin charges now, are they not? They destroyed Dublin City Council.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: On a point of order, I ask that Deputy McDonald correct the record of the House, because she indicated that people were going to be cut off from their water supply and this is not correct. I ask her to correct the record of the House.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: A Cheann Comhairle, are you going to give Deputy McDonald the opportunity to correct the record?
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: First, I express my support for this measure. It is a small measure that is one part of the whole housing package that has to be delivered. It is very important in terms of the provision of private housing that we watch the situation to see if people can afford to purchase. If there are continuing difficulties in this area, it is very important that we make further interventions. On the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (14 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on rent allowance in private dwellings for persons on the housing list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39107/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Oct 2014)
Robert Dowds: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on scrapping the legal framework of relevant contracts tax agreements in the construction sector, in view of the manner in which workers may be left open to exploitation by being forced to enter such agreements to secure employment rather than be employed as PAYE workers with the accompanying employment protections involved; and if he will make a...