Results 2,981-3,000 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello
- Military Aircraft. (29 May 2008)
Joe Costello: The Minister of State should not confine her remarks.
- Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 May 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on his policy to transfer assets from the ESB to EirGrid; the findings of the independent analysis carried out on this issue; when he expects to publish the findings from that independent analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21357/08]
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (29 May 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the delay in introducing regulations to provide for the tariff scheme for offshore wind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21356/08]
- Lisbon Reform Treaty Report: Statements (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the role of national parliaments in the Lisbon reform treaty. I compliment the Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Scrutiny, Deputy Perry, on the good work he has done in recent weeks and months to examine the Lisbon treaty and other issues. I am especially pleased the debate has come to the floor of the Dáil so that for the first...
- Lisbon Reform Treaty Report: Statements (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: That is not true.
- Lisbon Reform Treaty Report: Statements (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: No request was ever made.
- Lisbon Reform Treaty Report: Statements (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: The Deputy's party did not make a request.
- Hospital Accommodation. (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: This is an important issue and I would like a straightforward response from the Minister. Last week we heard that 100 jobs were being lost at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin. This was basically because of mismanagement; the money had run out and people had to be let go. That is no way to run a hospital. Obviously no hospital could provide a full service with such a sudden...
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to allow commuter buses to use the Phoenix Park on a regular basis; the plans if they exist; if consultations will be carried out with local people as to the desirability of such a development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21982/08]
- Written Answers — Concert Events: Concert Events (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance the procedures used by the Office of Public Works to give permission to promoters to hold large and small scale music and other commercial events in the Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22074/08]
- Written Answers — Concert Events: Concert Events (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance if a fee is charged to promoters for the use of the Phoenix Park for commercial music concerts and other events; if so, the amount that is charged; if the money is being channelled directly back into the care and upkeep of the Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22075/08]
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (4 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 415: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the plans submitted for a church (details supplied); when a decision will be made by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/08]
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reconfigure the delivery of hospital services in the north east; if it is true there is not a red cent available to build a new tertiary hospital in the region; the interim plans to deliver hospital services to the people of the north east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22170/08]
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people who have been sent abroad for treatment for eating disorders and other mental health treatment to date in 2008; when there will be an expansion of specialist services, including designated beds for people with eating disorders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22166/08]
- Written Answers — End-of-Life Vehicles: End-of-Life Vehicles (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce a compulsory system of reporting of car write-offs; the number of imported cars that the Revenue Commissioners have informed his Department are potential car write-offs; the number of people his Department have written to warning them of the potential unroadworthiness of their cars; if he will establish a central and...
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Transport when he envisages that the 14 newly appointed transport inspectors will be able to fully discharge their duties in tandem with An Garda SÃochána under the auspices of the Road Safety Authority; when he will introduce legislation to close the legislative loophole and allow the heavy goods vehicle inspectors to work at roadside checkpoints; the...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the development of the National Children's Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22601/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has proposals to develop or fund a drug treatment or rehabilitation centre at a location (details supplied); if so, the number of participants, the staffing levels and the nature of the rehabilitative services; if there has been prior community consultation on this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22904/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if correspondence from the Health Service Executive to Dublin City Council in support of a hostel at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 3 is in order in view of the fact that the hostel is to be operated by a private company and that the HSE had maintained that planning permission was a matter for the private company and not the...
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (17 Jun 2008)
Joe Costello: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the proposals in the needs analysis research report compiled by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22717/08]