Results 2,161-2,180 of 3,225 for speaker:Paul Connaughton Snr
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: We must hang in long enough then.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: When will the Minister pay the cheques? He should simply pay the cheques.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: It is a breach of contracts.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: They paid.
- Turbary Rights. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this matter. I want to give the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Government a chance to think seriously about this terrible decision to prevent thousands of turf cutters throughout Ireland from cutting their own domestic supply of fuel on the 32 raised bogs designated under the EU habitats directive....
- Turbary Rights. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: The Ceann Comhairle should put that out.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not entitled to a special care package; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the applicant has been in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin since October 2008 and is being discharged; if her attention has further been drawn to the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been paid under the nursing home Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2645/09]
- Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his proposals to help young farmers and their parents who had entered into contracts to have the farm signed over with a view to making an application for the installation aid grant in view of the fact that the scheme was suspended in budget 2009; if he is examining situations whereby people have endured financial hardship...
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Deputy Ahern need not worry, we will tell them what he had to say.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I wish well those involved in the social partnership talks. For obvious reasons, we hope there will be a good outcome. In the 30 years during which I have been a Member of the Oireachtas, I have never seen such mishandling of an economy as I have seen this year. The social unrest we notice throughout the country today emanated from this House when the budget was brought forward to October....
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the 20 year Irish language strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2709/09]
- Energy Prices: Motion (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Coveney, who has a great personal interest in this topic. I consider this country's lack of competitiveness in the economy to be the ruination of the State. I recall the 1990s when our competitiveness in terms of industrial development and output was as good as that in the best of countries. The products we exported abroad were at a premium but then what...
- Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an application form in respect of the new house insulation grant will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3434/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 374: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted house grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3030/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a hardship grant has not been awarded in view of the fact that reactors were found in a herd belonging to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3435/09]
- Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if young farmers who had their farms transferred to them but had not applied for the installation aid grant will have their cases examined in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3436/09]
- Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Galway had inherited the farm from their father and was in the process of making application for the installation aid for young farmers when the scheme was withdrawn; if cases such as this are being examined in his Department; and if he...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on re-routing a school bus at Ballymoe, County Galway which would take in the villages of Cloonruff, Cornamuckla, Treanboy, Turla and Knockagonnell which brings 15 fare paying children to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3439/09]
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: The Taoiseach has no answers.