Results 541-560 of 1,310 for speaker:Shane McEntee

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: Serious distress.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: Navan hospital.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: It is not true.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: The Taoiseach is totally out of line and he should withdraw his remark. It is not fair on the family in question.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: The Taoiseach should spend a week with the families.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: It was outrageous and I have no respect for him for making that comment.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: The Taoiseach should bring the families to the Oireachtas to apologise.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: He spoke the truth.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: The ones in which people died should be dealt with.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: On the issue of the Electricity Bill, it was made quite clear two weeks ago at a presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources that there is a new mechanism for transferring electricity and that a company called IMERA is in a position——

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: ——to provide underground cabling in this country for the same price as over-ground cabling.

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: Will the Taoiseach be instructing the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to——

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: ——order EirGrid to look at this new way of transferring electricity?

Order of Business. (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: I do not think I am out of order. This comes under the electricity Bill. We have had a presentation——

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: I compliment Deputy Brian Hayes on introducing this motion, which is crucial. I hope that in four years' time the parents and teachers of Ireland will recognise the work he is doing on their behalf and that what happened last year will never happen again. I have a list of schools before me, including those in Moynalty, Julianstown and Rathfeigh, which were promised in March last year that...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: That increase in class size is the issue. I am glad the Minister is back in the Chamber.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: I missed the Minister. I am not allowed show him a picture of a school but he might come to County Meath and sort out the mess left by his predecessor in the county. It is not class size but the provision of classes that is the issue in the county. We want schools. All school projects in the county have been put on the long finger now that the general election is over. The Minister would...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: ——-or told untruths. Now that the general election is over the projects are no further advanced. However, class size is an issue. The money spent on providing prefabs would be better spent on borrowing capital on which interest could be paid to provide proper school buildings in which pupils could be taught properly rather than having to go from prefab to prefab for classes. If the...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: She left no schools and no teachers. She was a disaster and ran out of the job.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2008)

Shane McEntee: Stick to the motion.