Results 521-540 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Chair communicated with me twice.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Ceann Comhairle allowed me to raise the issue before Christmas. The postal service is collapsing.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Can the Taoiseach tell the House when or if it is intended to restore the Postal and Telecommunications Services Bill to the Order Paper? While I am on my feet——

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister who was sitting across the way is responsible for the postal service obligation to deliver to every household and business every working day, and this has broken down.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Ceann Comhairle would not let me raise it on two days last week.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is Taoiseach's responsibility to ensure that a significant problem is addressed. He is doing nothing about it. The postal service is collapsing while the Taoiseach and the Minister will not lift a finger.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: In the Taoiseach's constituency——

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ——no post has been delivered.

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (29 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to update the 1999 White Paper on rural development here; his views on whether the Government's rural development policy requires updating; the precise initiatives he plans to take in this respect over the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22594/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to intervene to seek a resolution of the dispute between local residents and the Shell oil company in north Mayo following the outrageous jailing of five local residents, and to ask the Minister to appoint urgently an...

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question : To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources in view of the jailing of five citizens by the High Court yesterday, if he will intervene to seek a resolution of the dispute between Shell and local residents in north Mayo, possibly through the urgent appointment of an independent arbitrator; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Minister agree that it is extremely regrettable and disgraceful that James Brendan Philbin, Willie Corduff, Micheál Ó Seighin and Philip and Vincent McGrath are in Cloverhill Prison tonight over this matter? The legal advice the Labour Party has obtained is that the contempt of court relates to a civil rather than a criminal matter. Would the Minister be prepared to ask the Shell...

Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Deputy's question has not been answered.

Postal Services. (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: In recent weeks I have received reports from throughout the country of people who have been experiencing the non-delivery of mail for days and sometimes weeks on end. This lack of a proper postal service has been particularly bad in my constituency of Dublin North-East and in neighbouring constituencies in the estates of the Donahies and Clare Hall in particular. I have also received similar...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received a copy of the report, Do the Poor Pay More?; if his attention has been drawn to the report's finding that the billing and payment policies of State bodies and utility companies are helping to push some of the country's poorest into debt; the efforts he is making to address this situation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on decommissioning and compensation for coastal communities reliant on fishing; and if he will report on any progress in respect of the grave difficulties endured by the scallop fishing fleets of the south east. [23750/05]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (30 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 416: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has plans to introduce tachographs or black box type technology into passenger vehicles operated by public and private bus operators. [23904/05]

Industrial Disputes. (28 Sep 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the investigation by the labour inspectorate into allegations of serious irregularities in the treatment of employees of the Turkish company, Gama, which has been operating here; if all workers have now been given access to money held in accounts in a bank in Holland; if the Garda has been requested...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the serious implications for the future of the Irish maritime fleet and the plan by Irish Ferries to seek the redundancies of 543 Irish staff with a view to replacing them with lower paid workers from abroad as well as the possible consequences for labour relations generally and social partnership in particular; and the need for the...

Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the Taoiseach's comments following the disgraceful treatment of the Irish Ferries workforce.