Results 3,001-3,020 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan

Departmental Reports. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: It is up to the Minister to find that out.

Departmental Reports. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: It is up to the Minister to find out that.

Departmental Reports. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister knows everything.

Departmental Reports. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is spraying sludge from Ringsend.

Departmental Reports. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister can check this.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will publish the White Paper on local government reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9857/10]

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister promised the White Paper by the end of December 2008 but we still do not have it over than a year later. A Cabinet sub-committee has been set up to rein in some of the Minister's madness in regard to some of his proposals in the Green Paper. There will be a delay because Fianna Fáil does not like what the Minister is doing. In principle, Fine Gael has no problem with the...

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: However, 2014 is the appropriate time to have that because we want to initially develop functions from central Government to local government and the councillors. I do not see why there should be four local authorities, 130 public representatives and the appointment of a person who is effectively the glorified chairperson of a city development board. Does the Minister accept there is much...

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: The Minister has work to do.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: Yes, I disagree with it.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: No.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: We know it will not affect the Minister's party.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: We are talking about the Minister's party.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: I suggest that if there are efficiencies to be achieved, they should be achieved without reference to anything else that is happening. The four local authorities are doing the best they can in the current system - I have no difficulty with them. What the Minister is doing is seeking to put another layer of political bureaucracy on top of the four local authorities instead of reviewing the...

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: He did. He would not need a Cabinet sub-committee for something that was as straightforward as the Minister suggested. Does the Minister accept that this directly elected mayor of Dublin will have no power, effectively no budget, there will effectively be no Dublin Transport Authority and that he is engaging in, in the middle of a recession, is a waste of money?

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: I have read them.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: That is a long way from the Dublin mayoralty.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: We have a position.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: I am not the one criticising them. The Minister is criticising them.

Local Government Reform. (25 Feb 2010)

Phil Hogan: I am not.