Results 3,641-3,660 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Our Polish friends have gone home. Is that not right?

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: He knows nothing about Dublin.

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: On a point of information——

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Regarding this matter, why do Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael not form a national Government and allow the Labour Party to be the Opposition? We have nothing in common with their positions.

Public Transport. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I hope that, after the next general election, Deputy Broughan will remember that his party has nothing in common with Fine Gael. People outside the Houses know this and will return a Fianna Fáil-led Government.

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The Labour Party believes that serious costs would have been involved in any climate. Is it not time to abandon this crazy plan in the 2004 legislation and to restore Aer Rianta so that a proper national company can run the three airports? The Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, being in charge of some aspects of Cork and Shannon airports is ridiculous. Let us have Aer Rianta back. What is the...

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: That is right.

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: How much has been spent on the boards of Cork and Shannon airports since the 2004 legislation was implemented? How much has been spent on this madness in the past four or five years? What is the agreed debt level with which Cork Airport has been saddled? The commercial representatives of Cork, such as its chamber of commerce, were very upset when €120 million to €130 million was landed...

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I support all the airports.

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: They did not do what the Minister did to Shannon.

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Has the Minister forgotten something about Shannon?

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: He forgot that he was informed about Shannon

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Why did the Minister not move it to Cork?

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: First, I wish to comment on the great dignity shown by workers in Dublin Airport across a number of companies. Recently, for example, Aer Lingus workers negotiated a complete downgrading of their jobs and conditions to help the company to survive and they did so in a most dignified and responsible manner. The national leadership acted similarly in respect of the Dublin Airport Authority...

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: As a final point, I understand that Sheikh Mohammed and the United Arab Emirates consider themselves to be friends of Ireland and that they would be prepared to allow the kind of time that is needed to avoid the scenario in which valiant and highly skilled workers, who are among the most skilled in——

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: ——Ireland, will be walking the streets tomorrow. As I stated, they have behaved in a most dignified and responsible manner. Were the Minister to do this, I would appreciate his initiative.

State Airports. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Does that include contacting the owners, which the Government has not done heretofore?

Light Rail Project. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: With the indulgence of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I wish to report a note from the wonderful Labour Party staff to the effect that the IDA and an investor have agreed terms for the takeover of SR Technics. The new owners will need two weeks for due diligence, during which SR Technics will be required to pay staff, which they are refusing to do at present. I renew my call for the Minister to...

Light Rail Project. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: What is committed and non-contracted? What is the Minister doing about it?

Light Rail Project. (2 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The money is not down for spending yet. Contracts have not been signed.