Results 2,421-2,440 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I will talk about government to government trading. Let me go through it. In the Kyoto agreement, that would have been done through an IT transference system. I do not know where in Ireland the international transaction log of those is being kept. I cannot find that out. It should be there but it is not mentioned in the Bill. It is required to be registered for the purposes of the Kyoto...

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I thank the Minister. This is an issue of interest to me. There is much nonsense spoken on this topic. I am putting forward practical proposals for dealing with this issue and I suggest every step should be a practical one and no step should be over the limit of stupidity while at the same time the balance must be maintained. When the Minister directs the agency, the NTMA, I ask him to...

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I have written to him and I will adjudicate at lunch between the Minister and Mr. McCaughey when we will discuss these issues.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: There is much we could do. I will tell the Minister a story. Last week the energy regulator attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business. I was embarrassed with the lack of knowledge shown by the officials. They were not aware that Sustainable Energy Ireland offers grants for solar panels but not for wind generators. This is a basic piece of information in...

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: Let us broaden its market by making this an essential part of what we are doing. These are just simple things that can be done. I have not seen Al Gore's film, but I believe it is very good. There was a big debate on Channel 4 about whether global warming was based on nonsense. We should tell those people they should go into a corner and continue their debate. Whatever about the arguments...

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: On a point of information, the Senator's own Government took measures to deal with Chlorofluorocarbons in order to stop the things that were creating the problem.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: The point is that measures were taken.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: Let us impose a date in that regard.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: Let us not go there.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I agree with the Minister. However, is an account being kept of what is happening in this regard?

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: We could change our audit system. One cannot pursue a degree in this country in, for example, environmental economics. We are not dealing with these matters at academic level.

Seanad: Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: There are three levels of certification and they are not equally reliable.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I would like to correct the record because Senator John Phelan was referring to electronic voting as opposed to e-voting. The issue of e-voting has not yet been discussed in either House and it is time it was introduced in order that people could vote no matter where they were. If we can pay our mortgages over the Internet, we should also be able to vote. That would eradicate the problems...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I have a question on section 5. Is the Basel II agreement, which comes in next January and relates to asset-backed securities, facilitated by the legislation? I did not get the chance to raise the issue.

Seanad: Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I apologise for interrupting.

Seanad: Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: My apologies for not being present for the Second Stage debate. I have not seen the Minister of State's speech but I agree that this is an important piece of legislation. My understanding of the Basel II agreement, which comes into force on 1 January next, is that it should have a major impact on the levels of securities demanded by the central and reserve banks in order to credit the...

Seanad: Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I did not realise that.

Seanad: Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: They are in the right jobs.

Seanad: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (23 Mar 2007)

Joe O'Toole: I encountered this issue recently and I presume that, of all Ministers, a Progressive Democrats Minister of State will sympathise. I do not want to go into detail, but I will read my Adjournment debate into the record. It reads: The need for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to correct the anomaly which penalises a person who chooses to work in a low paid job rather than claim...