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Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: Let me give the Minister an example of what is happening in the region. In north Tipperary, for example, in over 25 years there has been no foreign direct investment - not a penny-----

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: -----and no jobs created. Take the Minister's own role, at which he can laugh all he likes, it is the job of Government to create jobs and to give inspiration to the people. What did the Government do with the Garda College in Templemore?

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: In the lead-up to the election, it packed them in like sardines in a tin. Today, the Minister's colleague, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, is in Templemore living it up. I presume he is there, if he had the nerve to visit the place. The last graduation out of the Garda College in Templemore of 268 is taking place, and after that, what have we for the...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: I am glad now that the Minister is listening because it is time he took action.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: The great Scottish philosopher and author-----

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: -----stated that-----

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: -----reformation takes place not by contemplation but by action. What we want from the Minister is action, not guff or words.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: In north Tipperary, as Deputy Noonan stated, we are getting rubbish and guff.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: Jobs have been lost in the Garda College in Templemore. The college is for the next two years virtually like a ghost college. What is happening in it? What are the Government's proposals for it? Why not give meaningful employment to the people,-----

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: -----with crime rampant in the country and murder on a daily basis?

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: There are 1,000 retired this year. Does Deputy O'Dea know how many the Government is training? It is training 198 in Templemore who will not be ready in two years' time. At the same time 1,000 gardaí a year retiring. What the Garda College and the Garda Force needs - I spoke to a chief superintendent outside the gate here yesterday - is experience. There has been a drain of experience...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: It is from the man who set up this State, the first Minister for Finance, Michael Collins, who stated: What we must aim at is the building of a sound economic life in which great discrepancies cannot occur. We must not have destitution or poverty at one end, and at the other an excess of riches in the possession of a few individuals, beyond what they can spend with satisfaction and justification.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Noel Coonan: This is what the Minister is doing.

Job Losses. (2 Feb 2010)

Noel Coonan: The Tánaiste should not forget north Tipperary.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Noel Coonan: Operation Transformation in County Kerry.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)

Noel Coonan: Ring Bertie, he will find a way around it.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Noel Coonan: For five years.

Telecommunications Services. (2 Mar 2010)

Noel Coonan: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report to the Houses of the Oireachtas on the progress made regarding the creation of a one-stop-shop to market State-owned broadband infrastructure. [10458/10]

Telecommunications Services. (2 Mar 2010)

Noel Coonan: In the three years I have been a Member of the House, I have heard the Minister pontificate about what he is doing in terms of broadband and set targets which he has consistently failed to meet. To hear him say he anticipates a demand for high speed broadband is really maddening, especially if one comes from my region of the mid-west which has the highest unemployment figures in the country....

Telecommunications Services. (2 Mar 2010)

Noel Coonan: The Minister did not give us targets or dates and he spoke about Europe. The National Competitiveness Council stated that broadband penetration in Ireland is the second worst in the EU for firms and small businesses. When will the Minister start to deliver, in particular in the mid-west region and rural areas where broadband is simply not available and if it is available, it is of such...