Results 4,401-4,420 of 5,311 for speaker:Tom Hayes

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Does Deputy Moynihan wish to take amendment No. 2? I ask him to talk about amendment No. 2.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Yes.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Deputy Coffey's question is relevant as I noted an article in a newspaper today stating that they will probably cherry-pick.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Minister. We have had a good discussion on the amendment. Is the amendment being withdrawn?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Of course.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Bord Gáis Éireann.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Is that an amendment to this Bill?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: That is fine.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Yes.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending and the members for considering the Bill.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Message to Dáil (6 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the acting Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has completed its consideration of the ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013 and has made no amendments thereto.

Other Questions: Aquaculture Development (11 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: Which Minister Coveney was Deputy Ó Cuív talking about?

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I welcome this opportunity to have a discussion with Senators on Bord na gCon. As Members will be aware, Bord na gCon is a commercial State body established under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958 and is responsible for the control and development of the greyhound industry in Ireland. The most recent estimates available suggest that the greyhound industry underpins in excess of 10,000 jobs...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: We must await further information.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I thank all the Senators for their contributions. Some of the matters raised are internal Bord na gCon day-to-day issues, but the debate has been worthwhile. The first thing I did when I got home from Dublin after my appointment last June was to drive down the road to Golden, near to where I live, to visit a man, Mr. Pat Dalton, who is known by everyone in the greyhound industry. He is one...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: It has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: I cannot. It has been ruled out of order by those in charge and that is it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In this Bill, we want to make it easy and more accessible for persons, be they farmers, Coillte or whoever, to be involved in forestry and also to put it on a statutory footing as something that will be amenable for the sector. We have consulted widely and at length on this Bill, from the farming organisations to everybody involved in the sector, over a long period of time and we have...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Tom Hayes: In an effort to be helpful in response to amendment No. 6, the Forestry Bill has already been subjected to a regulatory impact analysis process and the outcome of that process has been published. Any further regulatory analysis can be completed where necessary in the context of the regulation that will follow the passage of this Bill.