Results 301-320 of 955 for speaker:Terry Brennan

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

Terry Brennan: I have. Up to 70,000 people will converge on our capital city over that weekend, a major influx of tourists. We have much to show and offer and, indeed, we hope they will return with happy memories. Dublin will be a sporting experience that weekend for many continentals and for ourselves. We should promote the possibility of holding the Rugby World Cup in Ireland. We have the facilities...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

Terry Brennan: We should encourage the powers that be to host the Rugby World Cup in the not-too-distant future.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I would love to open it.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I compliment my colleague, Senator Mary White, on recognising the advantage of the new bridge and what the Taoiseach should be doing. I assure her that the Taoiseach has the matter in hand and is meeting his Northern counterparts and the British Prime Minister on the very same issue, which is political. Her colleague and my friend from north County Louth, Councillor Peter Savage, will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I do. I ask him to consult the Minister, his Department and Revenue. They are really splitting hairs. It is not a log as one might-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: It is not one for the Adjournment. It must be dealt with quickly as the tax has been introduced from today. I am asking for a review of the inclusion of the fire log which is not used in the same way as a briquette or a bucket of coal. It is a glorified firelighter. I, therefore, ask the Leader to ask the Minister to review the matter, as eight to ten jobs could be lost.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: It is not.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Carbon Tax Implementation (2 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Seanad. This matter is local to County Louth. Standard Brands of Kilsaran, Castlebellingham, County Louth, has been manufacturing firelighters since the early 1970s and employs approximately 100 people. It also manufactures firelogs - logs which were previously imported from Holland and Germany. Imported products contain hardwood dust, waste...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Carbon Tax Implementation (2 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: Why are firelogs described as a solid fuel? The legislation states that coal is defined as "coal and lignite, solid fuel manufactured from coal and lignite" and any other energy product within the meaning of Article 2.1 of the directive in solid form. Standard Brands log is solid and comprises material included in the energy product list, but it is not a fuel similar to coal and briquettes....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Carbon Tax Implementation (2 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: We should have been more specific. That is our fault, nor the fault of the Minister of State.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Carbon Tax Implementation (2 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: We appreciate that.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I join other speakers in calling for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to come into the House. The issue I would like to discuss with him is planning permissions which are about to expire. The collapse in the building industry over the past four years has been astronomical and people are applying for continuation of planning permission to develop housing...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I welcome today's announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, to the effect that he has sanctioned a Leader partnership to approve funding of €200,000 to Mr. Tony McGuinness to construct a willow drying and processing facility at his farm in Richardstown, Ardee. Under contract, it will dry willow crops produced in County Louth.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: Yes. The facility will also process these crops-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: -----for use as fuel in commercial, industrial and domestic boilers. It is a great announcement for mid-Louth. The facility will increase the county's number of jobs. One week or ten days ago, many colleagues heard me make a plea regarding the application of carbon tax to fire logs manufactured by Standard Brands in Kilsaran, Castlebellingham. I am pleased that the Revenue Commissioners...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Forthcoming European Council: Discussion with Minister of State (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: The Minister of State outlined the benefit of sports and sporting facilities to the young and the old. I congratulate him on reintroducing the sports grants after an absence of four years because they have benefited communities of all sporting types throughout the country. He referred to young lady boxers and the GAA. I wish to acknowledge the financial contributions issued to sporting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Forthcoming European Council: Discussion with Minister of State (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: Yes. Is it possible that, despite current economic circumstances, the Department will, as was the case last year, continue to pay grants to sporting facilities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Forthcoming European Council: Discussion with Minister of State (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: I compliment the Minister of State on his passion and enthusiasm for and commitment to tourism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Forthcoming European Council: Discussion with Minister of State (8 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: Excuse me. I support the Minister of State in terms of the tourism initiatives.

Seanad: Overseas Development Issues: Statements (9 May 2013)

Terry Brennan: There are issues that I had intended raising they have been raised already, and I will concentrate on Malawi. At short notice, I had the pleasure to invite Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karanga, northern Malawi, to Leinster House on Tuesday afternoon last. The first person I tried to contact when I heard he was coming was the Minister of State, Deputy Costello, because I am aware of the good...