Results 2,181-2,200 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: We have had debates on road safety on many occasions in recent years, but there are still outstanding issues. The most difficult manoeuvre on the road is overtaking, but there is no overtaking manoeuvre in the driver test â quod erat demonstrandum. This is the kind of nonsense we maintain continually. The Taoiseach was interviewed recently on "News at One" and he made the point that he...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I refer to No. 8 on the Order Paper, the Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2005, in my name and that of Senator Coghlan. Since we last met, the town of Dingle has voted on the name of its town. The result of the vote was that 1,005 were opposed to the decision that has been made as against 70 in favour. I look forward to debating this in the House. However, there are two reasons I do not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I was the essence of restraint.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I was informative.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I move: "That Seanad Ãireann: congratulates those progressive local authorities, such as Fingal County Council, who are now predicating planning permissions with energy and insulation standards which are twice as efficient as those of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government; recognises that following...
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: We use it in cowhouses in Galway and Kerry.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: It was 2006.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: How many and which states are they?
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: Will it be adopted?
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: We read the UCD report if that is what the Minister of State is going to say.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I have the UCD report in front of me.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I mentioned £800 per year in my contribution and I explained how it would work.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: The research was done on that.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I quoted from it twice in my contribution.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: It could but it is not. The Minister of State should be honest.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: The Government was required to speak to the EU about it but it did not do so. It did not get the exemption. The Minister of State is misleading the House.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: There is no argument there.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: That is exactly right.
- Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion (25 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Killeen, to the House and thank those who have contributed on this issue. This is an issue I and Senator Brian Hayes have been pushing for many years. In opening the debate I said that because the issue crossed two Departments, Ministers did not always get the proper flow of information to help them...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2006)
Joe O'Toole: I support the points made by Senator Brian Hayes, which are totally in line with two reasons we need legislation in this area. Under the Good Friday Agreement there was a commitment to shadow legislation in both jurisdictions to ensure a similar approach to these issues. As Senators will recall, in the past couple of weeks we dealt with the Europol (Amendment) Bill 2006, which is being...