Results 3,001-3,020 of 4,404 for speaker:Liz McManus

Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: I am sure the Minister is a man of good intention. However, will he accept that, when the only scheme targeting the poor, namely, the warmer homes scheme, receives only €5 million whereas people who can well afford to install energy saving devices are subvented to the tune of 30% through the greener homes scheme, he has his priorities wrong?

Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: The price of coal has doubled.

Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: I have a brief question. The Minister spoke of the National Roads Authority and the Railway Procurement Agency. Is he including the local authorities as road authorities? I presume, they have a certain role to play in this. Perhaps he would comment on that. What has he done in the case of local authorities?

Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Is it going to happen? Is the Department doing it?

Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: What kind of contact has the Minister had with local authorities across the country? What arrangements has he made with them?

Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: What has the Department done?

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Can I ask the Minister of State if all the reports from 2006 have been laid before the Houses because I am having difficulty in getting information? Does the Minister accept that the system is incredibly slow if we are waiting on the 2007 reports? I was asking about 2006 and 2007. I do not know how the question refers to 2007 and 2008 but that is my fault. I should have been careful about...

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: That is incredible.

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State accept that this is ludicrous? He is about to engage in a radical alteration of the structures of the fisheries boards but the reports relating to 2006 have not yet been laid before the House. The purpose of this alteration is to save money and make the system more efficient. I do not know how it will be possible to do so if even the most basic information has...

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: This is the Minister of State's responsibility.

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: In that event, the Minister of State should get on with it.

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: When were the Irish translations commissioned?

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State accept that it is his responsibility to ensure that this information is laid before the House? How does he intend to address the problem of long delays? Restructuring the fisheries boards in their entirety will take a long time.

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: So the Minister of State is breaking the law.

Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Perhaps the Ministers should be rationalised.

Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: We understand that there is no statutory responsibility in this regard. That is our concern. We are talking about a small number of people, as Deputy Coveney said, primarily because many of them died prematurely, having suffered grave ill health. The number of people in this category who are still alive is not large. It is generally recognised that those to whom I refer have suffered...

Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister not consider that it is inadequate to respond by mentioning that a forum was established in 2007? Does he agree it is strange that the extent of evasion has not yet been determined in that context? I would have thought that the forum would have come up with some kind of figure, in relation to the extent of evasion, by now. Of the 260,000 new homes which were built over...

Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Radio advertisements appear to have dropped the claim that 18,000 inspections are carried out each month. That decision is to be welcomed because nobody believed that was the case. Does the Minister accept it is important to draw on this source of revenue, particularly since it has become evident that broadcasters like RTE and TV3 are experiencing a decrease in advertising levels? Does the...

Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: I referred to the number of houses which were built over the last five years.

Television Licence Fee. (29 Oct 2008)

Liz McManus: Okay.