Results 2,801-2,820 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The purpose of these amendments is to reflect more accurately the requirement of the EU railway safety directive on railway accidents involved in cross-border services.
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The purpose of this amendment is to provide that the Minister may transpose a European directive relating to railway safety international law through regulations made under this Bill rather than using the European Communities Act 1972. The advantage of this is that the railway safety commission will have its full powers available in connection with its functions under the directive....
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The Bill provides in section 73 that the commission may appoint any of its staff as inspectors. All the enforcement powers of the commission are vested in the inspectorate of the commission. It is logical that these powers should be available to the highest officer of the commission, that is, a commissioner. However, there is no mechanism for a commissioner to be appointed as an inspector....
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: These amendments, on the advice of the Parliamentary Counsel, make some changes to penalties for offences. The financial penalty for summary offences is increasing from â¬3,000 to â¬5,000 in line with the recent increases in the jurisdictional limit of the District Court. The penalties for indictable offences are rebalanced. The maximum financial penalty is increased and the maximum prison...
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: This amendment inserts a new subsection (5) in section 111 which relates to the offence of dangerous working on a railway. This new subsection is based on section 53(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1961. This allows a jury to find a person charged with dangerous working guilty of the lesser offence of careless working under section 110. This gives the system useful and appropriate flexibility and...
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: This amendment inserts a new offence in Part 12. This new section requires a person to report immediately any railway safety hazard which he or she causes through some accidental or negligent act. I have in mind an incident in Selby in the UK a few years ago, where a Land Rover left the road and came to rest on the railway. This incident caused a catastrophic rail crash. Other incidents have...
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: It is a separate amendment but specific to this area. The amendment under discussion inserts a new section on page 89 before section 116.
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The current amendment will be headed "Obligation to notify danger caused to railway".
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I will hand over now to the Minister for Transport in case I give away too much. I had hoped that I could have introduced an amendment so that we could have had a railway to Donegal. On that point, the â¬5,000 fine, which is commensurate with the District Court's fines, only reflects the previous section.
- Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad. (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: No. That pertained to something falling on a line. This would reflect a failure to report that could be consequential. If this was taken to court, the Judiciary would make an assessment as to what the implications might be, as opposed to a minimum fine.
- Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 220 to 223, inclusive, 225 and 226 together. The national climate change strategy sets out Ireland's approach to meeting its target under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ireland's target is to limit growth in greenhouse gas emissions to 13% above 1990 levels in the 2008-12 commitment period. The target is not...
- Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The target set out in the national climate change strategy for carbon sequestration by on-farm forestry is 0.25 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, per annum, by 2010. The strategy also indicated that an additional 0.76 million tonnes of carbon dioxide could be contributed within the national forestry programme, giving a possible total of 1.01 million tonnes of carbon dioxide sequestered per...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Payments under the 2005 single payment scheme are scheduled to commence on 1 December 2005 and a payment amounting to â¬8,664.06 under this scheme will be issued by my Department to the person named on that date.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Payments under the 2005 single payment scheme are scheduled to commence on 1 December 2005 and a payment amounting to â¬7,101.58 under this scheme will be issued by my Department to the person named on that date.
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Following the closure of its Carlow sugar plant last March, Irish Sugar Limited made arrangements to have the full Irish sugar quota processed at its Mallow plant. Accordingly, beet growers who formerly supplied the Carlow plant are now sending their beet to Mallow. Under the reformed EU sugar regime agreed by the Council of Agriculture Ministers last week, all beet producers will receive...
- Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (30 Nov 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The pig sector is an important part of Ireland's agricultural industry. It contributes 6% of gross agricultural output and exports of pork and bacon contribute â¬270 million to our export earnings. The current pigmeat market situation is satisfactory and the outlook for the sector over the next few years is positive. The EU market support regime for the pig industry is very modest compared...
- World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Statements. (1 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: I thank all Members who have participated in this discussion on the World Trade Organisation. Although it appears that while the Hong Kong conference will not result in the final agreement being reached, it will play a vital role in making significant progress to that complete final agreement and for that reason, the outcome is crucial. The Government's priority is to see that the process of...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: Payment under the single payment scheme has been posted directly to the person named, as requested.
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (1 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named had an on-farm inspection on 14 November 2005. The inspector raised possible issues of non-compliance and these are currently being examined. If a decision is taken to apply penalties, the person named will be notified and will be told that he is entitled to appeal the decision locally and that if he is unsuccessful, he has a further avenue of appeal to the independent...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Dec 2005)
Mary Coughlan: The person named submitted an application under the 2005 single payment scheme. As the person named was not an applicant under the livestock and/or arable aid schemes during the reference period 2000-02, no entitlements have been established under the single payment scheme. The person named also submitted an application for an allocation of entitlements from the national reserve under...