Results 381-400 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The agency is actively marketing the mid-west region on an ongoing basis as a location for FDI through its network of overseas offices. However the attraction of FDI to the Shannon free zone is a matter for Shannon Development. Responsibility for provision...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The Order of Business today shall be as follows: No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the amendments to the agreement establishing the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation;No. 4, National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 3, Road Traffic Bill 2004 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The bulk of the remaining Bills, if not all of them, will be published before the close of this session. I do not want to commit myself to every one of them, but the majority will be published. A number of them have already been approved by the Cabinet, including the health, safety and welfare at work Bill. A number of them are at an advanced stage. On the decentralisation programme, the...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I do not think so.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I hope the Deputy is still supporting it.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: Hearings?

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I detect an attitude among the Opposition that it wants to change this programme. In fact, I know the Labour Party put up posters in Dublin stating "No to decentralisation".

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The policy decision has been made and it will not be reversed.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: We are not obliged to have hearings.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The Government's decentralisation programme is a Government one. There is no question but that the Progressive Democrats Party is totally supportive of that programme and remains totally committed to it.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I do not know when we will have the constituencies revision Bill. It has not been brought before the Cabinet and I do not anticipate any great need to rush it through. We have three years to get it through. The Government has a fairly radical set of proposals on Dáil reform but the Labour Party will not engage because of the Thursday issue which it originally supported.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I am not in a position to say when a number of those Bills will be brought forward. The Deputy mentioned the medical practitioners Bill and the nurses and midwives Bill. The pharmacy Bill, the adoption Bill and the VHI Bill will be brought forward next year.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: It is not possible to say when we will have the mercantile marine Bill. It is the Government's intention to publish and pass the airports Bill before the summer recess.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: In regard to the National Monuments (Amendment) Bill, there are a number of safeguards included.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: For example, the National Museum has to be consulted and——

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: ——the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism has to give a licence before any of those measures can be taken by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: That is the case. The intention is to pass the legislation before the summer recess.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, this measure is necessary because of the court decision in regard to Carrickmines. Millions of taxpayers' euro are being wasted because we cannot proceed with this.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: Such money could be spent on health, education or on some other area. This measure is urgently needed and the Deputy knows that.

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: It is essentially that.