Results 5,601-5,620 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: All correspondence is covered by a confidentiality requirement. My natural disposition is to be open on the issue of correspondence. The correspondence is not completed and to break confidentiality I would show discourtesy to the tribunal. It is also more important that I complete this issue and then I will visit the issue of making all material available. I do not disagree with the...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Deputy is correct that a decision was made that, from 31 March 2007, different, lower per diem rates would be paid. The point can fairly be made from the point of view of the tribunal, and this is part of the ongoing dialogue, that while the tribunal would have anticipated a timetable for 2007, there has been a series of legal actions which have impeded or prevented the completion of...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: No, I am not saying that.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: If the Deputy would let me finish——

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The decision on a lower tariff of fees was that they would come into operation from 31 March this year. There is to be a dialogue between me and the tribunal on the timetable issue. The tribunal can fairly put forward a case that legal actions have impeded its work. The tribunal has a case to make and we must listen to it. I ask the Deputy not to press me to anticipate what will happen...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I am not sure that tribunal fees are a Labour Court matter.

Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Government's waste management strategy has delivered demonstrable and successful results, including the achievement of domestic and EU targets well ahead of schedule. This strategy, as formulated in successive policy documents, has been framed against the background of EU objectives to move to specified recovery rates for various waste streams and to divert biodegradable waste from...

Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The answer to most of the Deputy's rhetorical questions is "No". There is a degree of extraordinary hypocrisy in the Green Party's stance on this issue. I was pleased last week that, in the course of the debate, Deputy Quinn made it clear that incineration or waste to energy will have to be part of any integrated waste strategy for the future. Recovery and reduction of waste will also have...

Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I do not agree with Deputy Cuffe. We have achieved extraordinary targets in waste management in recent years, for which the public is to be congratulated. We are in a position where recycling is a possibility and one on which we must work. Deputy Cuffe did not address the issue of combined heat and power energy production. To use waste as an energy resource is the next step.

Waste Management. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: CHP, where energy is recovered from waste, has been adopted in every other European country. Even the deputy leader of the German Green Party boasted about it.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: Ireland will deliver fully on its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. While the relevant Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report shows the downward trend in greenhouse gas emissions was interrupted in 2005, this was expected and was in line with projections published by the Department in 2006. The report notes much of the 2005 increase in emissions can be attributed to two factors,...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I do not agree that Ireland is one of the worst countries in Europe. The Deputy should examine other comparisons. The Deputy is correct that there have been significant increases in emissions in the transport area. One reason is there are more cars on the road but there are other factors. The Deputy is correct that there is no rail link to Dublin Airport. However, there are advanced...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I hope the Deputy does not expect me to answer the last question in the affirmative.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I agree with the need for a cross-departmental co-ordinated effort in tackling this issue. Some time back I suggested the establishment of a Cabinet sub-committee on the matter and the Taoiseach appointed me chairman of it. It will produce——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: We had a successful meeting today.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Deputy will see the fruits of this meeting shortly. Fuel tourism, a factor never considered in this debate, contributes to a degree to our high emissions in the transport area. It is calculated in Luxembourg's emissions as drivers in neighbouring countries go there to buy fuel. I can provide the Deputy with statistics on this matter.

Housing Grants. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: It is pester power.

Register of Electors. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87 and 138 together. In law, the preparation of the register of electors is a matter for each local registration authority. It is its duty to ensure, as far as possible and with the co-operation of the public, the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the register. Authorities were required to publish the final register for 2007-08 by 1 February last and did so....

Register of Electors. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: The Deputy is correct. In fact, the more one studies this matter the more one becomes aware of some quite extraordinary factors. I wish to place a few more statistics on the record of the House. As the Deputy knows, there is an academic hypothesis that the total number of people on the electoral register should be roughly the equivalent of 85% of the 18 plus population. That would mean...

Register of Electors. (27 Feb 2007)

Dick Roche: No.