Results 541-560 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: I am sure the Minister will not mind me stating that we have heard all this before. In January 2004 it was stated in a document issued by the Taoiseach that the Government had established a group on better regulation to promote better regulation across the public service and oversee implementation of the commitments and action plan arising from the White Paper. How are we now to believe the...
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: I do not agree with the Minister's comment that the Government has an agile perspective of the matters that come before it. The approach is reactive rather than agile. The Government has been warned about these issues as legislation proceeded through the Houses. In particular, there were warnings that the directors' compliance statement in the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003...
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: How many recommendations have been implemented?
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: Why is another group needed?
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: This is a talking shop and the Minister knows it.
- Business Regulation. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: No new group is needed to cover up the mistakes made.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: It is definitely changing.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: It is difficult to support something we cannot see.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: Does the Minister believe there should be a retention of the ban on predatory pricing and below cost selling?
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question he was asked.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: The Minister has stated he is in favour of abandoning the groceries order. He has just stated he will bring his views on the groceries order to the Government first and then before this House in an orderly fashion. He has already made his views known.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: Does the Minister agree that the bans on predatory pricing or below cost selling should be retained? I know this is not easy for me to understand.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: The Minister is being quite arrogant.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: Yes. The Minister should answer the question.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: I did not ask the Minister about the groceries order. I asked him another question.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: I asked the Minister a different question. That is not a shared view.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: It does not.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: Has the Minister read the report by the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business?
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: In that case, the Minister is fully briefed. Deputy Cassidy will have briefed him fully.
- Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)
Phil Hogan: It is good that the Minister may accept the Members' views. If he had accepted them on the issue of directors' compliance, he would not have walked into that problem.