Results 421-440 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent

Issue of Writ: Kildare North By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Caoláin and Finian McGrath.

Issue of Writ: Kildare North By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is a good day for democracy that the parties in a position to move the writ do so today. I welcome the opportunity to put on the record the good wishes of the Green Party for the former incumbents, Charlie McCreevy in Kildare North and John Bruton in Meath. I have no doubt they will be missed in many ways but the people of Kildare North and Meath now have an opportunity to review their...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This by-election will be a welcome opportunity for the people of Meath to have their say. They can pass judgment on their neglect by the main parties down the years. Meath will not be taken for granted and there are many issues about which the people feel angry. The Green Party candidate, Fergal O'Byrne, has been a campaigner and community worker for many years and knows how the pernicious...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——then that is the policy that will haunt this Government.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Government now needs to be held accountable.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This Minister has decided that he will not listen to the views of the people of Meath. He thinks he knows best, but he will get his answer this time around. The people of Meath will not be found wanting when they pass judgement——

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——on a Minister who does not even want to listen to elected representatives, not to mind the people of his own county. Will he listen to the people of Meath when they speak? He will have no choice in the matter, whether he likes it or not. He will have to realise that places like Navan had an industrial base and employment which did not require people to leave their homes at the crack of...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: They will now be told that if they want to get to Dublin, they will have to do away with much of their archaeological heritage at Tara and Skryne.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister and the Government need to realise that there are much better ways of local planning and local employment. The rail corridor was closed down by Fianna Fáil many years ago. Now is the time of reckoning. This Government will have to pay the price for neglecting the people of County Meath.

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the introduction of private bus operators in the Dublin bus market. [4814/05]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Transport when he intends to introduce legislation which will allow for the use of electronic tolling; if it will be possible to convert all existing toll plazas to such an electronic system; and the contracts for new tolling arrangements which are being designed on the basis that they will be collected electronically. [4815/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 385: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of forestry grant applications approved for Údaras na Gaeltachta and in respect of each application to date of approval, area planted, planting grants, maintenance grants, premiums paid to date and an estimate of premiums payable in future years. [4585/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if persons (details supplied) or any party acting on its behalf submitted a forestry grant, premium application or any type of documentation in respect of the land or part thereof. [4586/05]

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4483/05]

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: When speaking on An Agreed Programme for Government, the Taoiseach repeatedly states that if the Government had previously known what it knows now, it would have done things differently. This is particularly the case when he is obliged to answer questions on matters such as traffic congestion, problems relating to social housing, etc. Is it not the case, however, that when one is preparing...

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: As in the case of the metro.

Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It would be a fraction of——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I seek to have the business of the House adjourned under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national and international importance, namely, to appraise the Dáil of the Government's failure to date to prepare Ireland for compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, which comes into effect today, and its successors which provide that reductions will be far more stringent that the original...

Order of Business. (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is quite a worrying development and indicates not alone the problems raised by the Supreme Court but also vindicates Opposition warnings that the Bill was being rushed through the House. This health amendment Bill was inspired, it seems, more on PR grounds than from a legally vigorous and well-thought out policy viewpoint. It is clear that the business is unfinished and that a debate is...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (16 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in active service at the latest date for which figures are available. [5105/05]