Results 2,161-2,180 of 11,785 for speaker:Niall Collins
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: Is that the memorandum of understanding that the Government keeps renewing, along with the bank guarantee?
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: I hear the Government is going to send the Minister, Deputy Hogan, over there next time.
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: We are going to be spared.
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: I am grateful for the opportunity to partake in the debate in a calm and rational manner now that certain Members have left the House. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Coveney, on his part in delivering the positive announcement by the Kerry Group yesterday. It behoves all of us to acknowledge that. It was a great news announcement for the country. However, I wish to follow up with a...
- Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: It is an issue of difference between the coalition parties. The farming community is entitled to certainty. It would be most unfair to introduce a change in the third level college grant scheme which would impact on farm families in that fashion. The suggestion is that where one has a productive asset, a capital asset, which is put to use to generate income, after one deducts one’s...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (10 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is putting in place to deal with departmental spending overruns in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43416/12]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: The Tánaiste said we did not spend enough.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: The Tánaiste spent 14 years saying we did not spend enough.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: Is the Government taking the allowances off consultants?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: The Labour Party is attacking workers.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: The Labour Party is abandoning the workers.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: He should tell that to the Civil Service.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Regulation (11 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether it would be appropriate for there to be a remuneration cap for employees in broadcasting organisations that are in receipt of public funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43720/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Review (16 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current status of the domiciliary care allowance review group she established in July; the timeframe for its report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44404/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (16 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements in place to facilitate Irish citizens who require an emergency passport from the Dublin office; if he will outline the various options open to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44186/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (16 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the alcohol/advertising proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44251/12]
- Topical Issue Debate: Child Detention Centres (17 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue, which is very topical given the publication yesterday in the public domain of the prison inspector's report and the facts that there is to be a referendum on children's rights, that we are to amend adoption legislation and that we are waiting to process the Children First legislation. I join the Minister in complimenting the Inspector of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Child Detention Centres (17 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: I wish to ask a question. What is the status of the investigation to which the Minister referred in his public comments in recent days? Is the Garda Síochána involved in that investigation?
- Topical Issue Debate: Child Detention Centres (17 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: Have the complaints mentioned by the inspector in his report been referred to the Garda? Does the current management-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Child Detention Centres (17 Oct 2012)
Niall Collins: -----have the capacity to deal with the issues raised in the report?