Results 5,421-5,440 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It would be a bizarre six-humped corporate camel. Fine Gael is proposing that 100 officials in the Department of the Taoiseach should be running our electricity, gas and broadband grids, as well as our water services, our forests and bogs and our building insulation industry. It is bizarre. I do not think it has been thought through.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I do not think it would work. I know it would not work. Some elements of Fine Gael's energy proposals make sense. We are providing for smart metering and electric vehicles. We are spending â¬1 million a week in support of the 3,500 contractors who are involved in the insulation programme. I want to pursue the Grid 25 strategy. The biggest obstacle in the way of Grid 25 is the attempt...
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----to stop this infrastructure from being delivered.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: That is the reality.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: That is happening.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see Sinn Féin-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: One would expect Sinn Féin to be in favour of a project that involves North-South co-operation-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----rather than blocking it.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It is bizarre to see Fine Gael and Sinn Féin-----
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----working together to block the critical infrastructure they say they want.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I agree that we need to be ambitious with regard to broadband. However, I question Fine Gael's proposal to spend â¬50 million of State money this year in a way that would threaten the private sector's expenditure of between â¬600 million and â¬700 million on alternative networks. Fine Gael wanted to give money to Babcock & Brown, but I am glad I made a different decision. If the...
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It would risk everything in the State. Fine Gael wants to get rid of all our successful State companies in one fell swoop and replace them with an unbelievable construct - the quango to end all quangos - in the Department of the Taoiseach. Fine Gael suggests that this body would run the construction, electricity, gas, forestry and water sectors. The proposal simply will not work. The...
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I am prepared to have hours of debate on it.
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Will the Deputy help me to get it delivered?
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Will he support the delivery of that grid? Will he act it out on the ground in reality?
- Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The holding of everything company.
- Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I regret to advise the Deputy that due to industrial action it is not possible to deal with his question.
- Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (24 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I regret to advise the Deputy that due to industrial action it is not possible to deal with his question.
- Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (25 Feb 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I regret to advise the Deputy that it is not possible to provide a response to his Question at this time. I will write to the Deputy as soon as it is available.